California Domestic Workers Demand Bill of Rights

Workers and advocates host Mother’s Day brunch with legislators to urge passage of bill, AB241

Dyan Ruiz, Reporter, Co-Producer

Joseph Smooke, Camera, Reporter, Co-Producer

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Charlotte Noss, Legal Aid Society — Employment Law Center

Dalia Yedida, Mujeres Unidas y Activas

Guillermina Castellanos, La Colectiva de Mujeres

Katie Joaquin, California Domestic Workers Coalition

Leland Yee, California State Senator, San Francisco and San Mateo Counties

Maria Leal, Domestic Worker

Meg Yardley, Employer of a Domestic Worker

Tom Ammiano, California State Assemblymember, 17th District

May Day 2013 San Francisco

May Day rally and march, San Francisco 2013.

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Featuring poem “May Day 2013″ by Jack Hirschman of the Revolutionary Poets Brigade

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Investigation: Crisis in Toronto Homeless Shelters

City maintains there are enough beds but activists and shelter operators say they are running at over capacity. We investigate the real story.

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Joseph Smooke, Camera, Co-Producer

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Seaton House Shelter, Toronto

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