Rising Up For Justice: The Immigrant Worker-Led Fight for Justice
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FEATURING NADIA MARIA-MOLINA - Our nation and our world is overrun with billionaires and bigots, but they are few and we are many. On this series, exclusive to subscribers of Rising Up With Sonali and viewers of Free Speech TV, we’ll hear from organizers in the movements for social justice, and dig into the nuts and bolts of values, strategies, tactics, narratives, and building power.
This week, Nadia Marin Molina, Co-Executive Director of the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON) spoke with Sonali Kolhatkar. Marin-Molina leads NDLON's Workers Center and Workers Rights areas of work. Previously, as NDLON’s Workers Rights Program Coordinator, she created and led NDLON’s disaster response initiative, to successfully train thousands of day laborers and build the capacity of the group’s member organizations.
ROUGH TRANSCRIPT:
Sonali Kolhatkar: So, I live in Pasadena. I'm really familiar with NDLON. We have the Job Center here that is a central hub of the organization, but NDLON is a national organization, and yet for people who haven't heard of the work that NDLON does, how do you introduce viewers to this organization? Looking through your website, it is vast, but I remember when NDLON first started many, many years ago, and your organization has just expanded and expanded and is doing so much work in so many different avenues. How do you summarize the work, the main work that NDLON does?
Nadia Marin-Molina: Yes. Well, NDLON is a national network at this point. We started when NDLON was founded with nine member organizations, and now we're a national network of 70 member organizations. So, you're right the network has grown a lot. Our goal is to improve the lives of daily laborers and low-wage immigrant workers.
In general, we work at the intersection of immigrants’ rights and workers’ rights and we believe that by organizing and supporting those who are most vulnerable workers who are excluded and exploited, we're fighting for and protecting everyone's rights.