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Wecount!
community worker center opening…
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Join us at the
Opening
Ceremony for the
WeCount!
Community Worker
Center
on
Sat., March 29, at
11 a.m.
Address: 10871 SW 188 St., #23 & 24
Miami,
FL
33157
Miami-Dade
County’s
first non-profit day labor employment center will be
open for operations on Monday,
March 31.
Support organized day laborers by
patronizing the WeCount!
Community
Worker
Center. Call (305) 278-7740.
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PHOTO EXHIBIT A GREAT SUCCESS…
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Images of work, workers, neighborhood, family and community, taken by
WeCount! leaders, were on exhibit during the month of February at
ArtSouth in Homestead. An article on the exhibit was published in the
Miami Herald and El Nuevo Herald on March 1.
The exhibit was a project of WeCount!, enFamilia, and the Research
Institute for Social and Economic Policy at FIU, and made possible
through the generous support of Tropicolor Photo and the Dade Community
Foundation.
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SUSANA POZOS
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SAFE TRANSPORTATION FOR WORKERS CAMPAIGN…
Thousands of workers living in
Homestead
risk their lives to get to and from work at plant nurseries located in the rural
southwestern areas of the county with no public buses or other public modes of
transportation. In addition, East Mowry Drive in
Homestead, a
street with six large apartment complexes for hundreds of working families has
no public transportation. WeCount!
has initiated a campaign for safe public
transportation for working people.
Keep tuned…
MAYAN ARTS PROJECT…
Thanks to the Dade Community
Foundation for providing a community grant of $8,000 in March 2008 for WeCount!
to create a marimba and folkloric dance group to provide an opportunity for
cultural engagement for the large and growing Mayan community from Guatemala in
the Homestead area.
Wage theft education & advocacy…
In
today’s recessionary economy and anti-immigrant climate, wage theft is on the
rise. WeCount! is conducting
community education for workers on wage theft prevention, including distribution
of booklets for workers to record their hours and information about their
employers, and advocacy for workers who haven’t been paid for their labor.
We are working with a coalition of organizations seeking systemic
solutions to the issue of wage theft.
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