Home is Where the Work Is: Domestic Workers Summit
They work in the most intimate spaces—homes—and yet, they remain the invisible backbone of New York’s economy. There are more than 200,000 domestic workers in the city—nannies, housekeepers, and elderly caregivers—and now a groundbreaking report is providing a clearer picture of their working conditions, and providing momentum for a statewide Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. Join us as we talk to SABA WAHEED and ANNA COUEY, co-authors of the new report, and hear about an upcoming September 8 domestic workers summit from CAROLYN DE LEON-HERMONGENES and AI-JEN POO of the city-wide coalition Domestic Workers Justice Coalition.
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SABA WAHEED is an Information Activist with the DataCenter, which produced “Home is Where the Work Is: Inside New York’s Domestic Work Industry” with Domestic Workers United. She’s worked with the Urban Justice Center in New York City, and with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, the Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York, and the Youth Ministries for Peace and Justice.
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ANNA COUEY is also an Information Activist with the Economic DataCenter, and has nine years' experience supporting community-based organizations to use research in organizing. Her work has supported struggles for welfare rights, just-cause eviction, labor rights for low wage workers, and to end discrimination against former prisoners.
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AI-JEN POO is Associate Director of CAAAV and Lead Organizer for Domestic Workers United, an organization of Caribbean, Latina and African domestic workers that works in close collaboration with other domestic worker organizations in NY through the Domestic Workers Justice Coalition toward respect, fair labor standards, power and to help build a movement to end exploitation and oppression.
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CAROLYN DE LEON-HERMOGENES is a former domestic worker and organizer with the Women Workers Project of CAAAV, which leads the campaign for legalization of undocumented immigrants, builds alliances with other workers organizations, and advocates for justice of exploited domestic workers.
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Trade Showdown in Seattle
Hundreds of farmers, workers, and other activists converge on Seattle this week as the city hosts the latest round of negotiations over the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement, the largest such agreement since NAFTA. A 100-member delegation from South Korea will join Korean Americans for four days of protests, culminating in a rally on Saturday. We’ll have a report from Seattle with YOUNG CHOE of Korean Americans Against War And Neoliberalism.
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YOUNG CHOE is member of KAWAN (Korean Americans Against War And Neoliberalism).
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"Red Doors"
They’re a suburban family with three daughters—and bizarrely dysfunctional (is there any other kind?). They’re also Chinese American. GEORGIA LEE’S debut feature “Red Doors” tells a different kind of second-generation story—one in which it’s dad who melts down and runs away from home. We’ll be joined by director Lee and TZI MA, who stars as dad Ed Wong. The film opens this Friday at the Angelika and the ImaginAsian Theater.
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GEORGIA LEE is the director, writer, and co-producer of Red Doors, which opens this Friday at the Angelika and ImaginAsian Theater. Lee directed five short films before making Red Doors. Prior to becoming a filmmaker, she worked for management consulting firm McKinsey & Company and graduated cum laude with a degree in Biochemistry from Harvard University.
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TZI MA was most recently featured in Joel & Ethan Coen’s "The Ladykillers" as The General opposite Tom Hanks, and in Phillip Noyce’s critically acclaimed "The Quiet American" as Hinh opposite Michael Caine and Brendan Fraser. Ma began his acting career in New York City on the stage where he had two plays written for him: The Dance and The Railroad by Tony award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang (M. Butterfly) and In Perpetuity Throughout the Universe by Eric Overmyer. More here.
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"Man Push Cart"
This new feature film also opening this Friday at the Angelika, promises to make you “see your morning coffee guy in a whole new way.” The film is the story of Ahmad (Razvi), a young man who ekes out a living selling coffee and donuts to commuters from his push cart in Midtown Manhattan. It turns out Ahmad was once a rock star in Pakistan before life (and death) intervened. Stay with us as we talk to RAMIN BAHRANI, the director of this moving and accomplished New York story.
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RAMIN BAHRANI was born in North Carolina to Iranian parents. After receiving his BA from Columbia University in New York City, Bahrani moved to Iran for three years and made his student thesis film, Strangers (2000). He then spent some time in Paris before returning to the States to begin work on Man Push Cart. He is currently editing his second feature film.
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