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San Diego Workers Center

Day laborers in San Diego have opened a new center to get jobs and protect their rights.

San Diego Workers Center

Day laborers in San Diego have opened a new center to get jobs and protect their rights.

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San Diego, United States

$245 USD 8 backers

3% of $8,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

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The San Diego Workers Center is a unique place where day laborers and household workers come together to seek work, get protection for their rights, and learn ways to become more professional in the work they do. They are hard working men and women who are reliable, dedicated to supporting their families and active contributors to our community. The center brings people together to get jobs done: painting, gardening, roofing, moving, carpentry, plumbing, construction, as well as house cleaning and caring for children and the elderly.

Our mission is to achieve full human rights for day laborers and household workers, including a living wage, equal pay and treatment before the law, and freedom from harassment based on religion, color or creed.

We are in the beginning stages and we need your help in order to do our outreach work among our workers and employers. Your dollars will help our organizers hook up workers with jobs, conduct health and safety workshops, defend workers' rights, and teach English and other skills that make for a healthy and productive work force. Your contribution is tax free!

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Thank you!

$10 USD

We will send you a hand written thank you card. We want to thank all the artists that have contributed their works to help our campaign. “Artists are the gate keepers of truth, the radical voice of our civilization." So said singer, actor, social activist, lawyer, and athlete, the great Paul Robeson.

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Bumper Sticker

$25 USD

We will send you a hand written thank you card, an "I support the San Diego Worker Center!" a bumper sticker, and a special SHOUT OUT! on our San Diego Worker Center Facebook Page. (see photo gallery for bumper sticker)

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Poster

$35 USD

A hand written thank you note, a bumper sticker, and an 11" x 17" color poster from the National Day Labor Organizing Network, titled "Nuestra Lucha, Nuestra Voz--Nothing About Us Without us!," or an 11" X 14" poster of Martin Luther King honoring workers with the quote: "All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."

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June 2015

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T-shirt

$50 USD

All of the above, plus a t-shirt and with our logo. Specify size: small, medium, large, X- large, 2-XX large. (see gallery for photo)

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June 2015

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Polished brass pendant

$100 USD

All of the above, plus a polished brass pendant with the logo of the San Diego Worker Center, created by artist Rick Trujillo. (see photo gallery for logo).

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"Uneasy Neighbors" DVD.

$200 USD

All of the above, plus an additional DVD of "Uneasy Neighbors," the story of migrant workers trying to survive in camps around San Diego County. This is an award winning documentary by Emmy Award winning Producer / Director Paul Espinosa.

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Art Poster

$300 USD

A bumper sticker and a personally signed 18" x 24" poster of the Day of the Dead or "Curtain Raiser" by the reknowned artist Ricardo Duffy of San Juan Capistrano, Calif. (see gallery for photos)

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Border Photos

$400 USD

Bumper sticker, brass pendant, and a framed 11" X 14" photo by acclaimed border photographer Maria Teresa Fernandez. Her stunning photos of family reunions and other scenes near Friendship Park near San Diego have been exhibited internationally. (Select a photo from the gallery.)

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Illegal People, by David Bacon

$500 USD

In addition to the art posters and border photo, you will receive an autographed copy of David Bacon's book, Illegal People. For two decades Bacon has documented the connections between labor, migration, and the global economy. In Illegal People he explains why our national policy produces even more displacement, migration, immigration raids, and an increasingly divided and polarized society. (see gallery for photo).

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Your name on our wall plaque.

$1,000 USD

In addition to the art posters and the David Bacon book, we will send you a DVD of the documentary "The Student, the Nun, the Amazon," the story of Sister Dorothy Stang who was murdered while defending the rights of poor farmers in the Amazon rain forest. We will also place your name or the name of your organization on a plaque on the wall of the San Diego Worker Center. And we will invite you as guests of honor to special reception, date to be announced.

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