Oral History Archive
Immigrants have long been an essential thread in New York City's economic and social fabric.Yet the details of their lives and experiences go unheard. But not any more.
The Community News Production Institute has created the Immigrant Workers Oral History Archive, in partnership with members of Domestic Workers United, Families for Freedom, New Immigrant Community Empowerment, Street Vendor Project, and Nah We Yone. With this project, immigrants have a place to see and hear their voices and experiences documented. This project comes at a crucial time for both immigrant workers and community organizers. This ever-growing audio archive documents the voices most impacted by harsh federal immigration legislation and their strategies for fighting back.
The interviewers are immigrants and low-wage workers, every day New Yorkers trained by the Community News Project Institute. These CNPI reporters, as you are about to find out below, have covered issues that range from immigration to labor rights. The reporters themselves are directly affected by some of these issues, bringing a unique approach to these stories that most reporters ignore.
This project is made possible with support from the Paul Robeson Fund of the Funding Exchange
- produced by PPH Gulfcoast Trainees
- in 2007
It's Called Renaissance Village. But don't let the name fool you. It's the largest FEMA trailer park in the country. It's located about a hundred miles north of New Orleans in Baker, Louisiana. RIght after Hurricane Katrina and Rita, thousands were sent to live there. PPH trainees in the Gulf Coast produced stories that were aired by the nationally syndicated program Making Contact.
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- 19 downloads
- 3 plays
- produced by Christine Lewis
- in 2008
On June 26th, a judge sentenced a Long Island couple for the abuse of two Indonesian domestic workers. Christine Lewis (Domestic Workers United) files this report for Free Speech Radio News.
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- 42 downloads
- 3 plays
- produced by Christine Lewis
- in 2008
Domestic Workers staged a protest in front of the home of an employer who is said to have abused her nanny. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis was there to compile these voices.
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- 105 downloads
- 5 plays
- produced by Abdulai Bah
- in 2008
In celebration of workers' international day, CNPI reporters take a look at how Domestic Workers and Day Labors are being treated in their work place here in NYC.
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- 107 downloads
- 7 plays
