Rosas y Canciones: May Day Immigrant Fundraiser
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Canciones y Rosas: A May Day Fundraisers for Immigrant Workers
Friday, May 1, at 9pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/540797756631859/?ti=ls
Join our socialist choir this International Workers’ Day as we raise our voices in sodarity with immigrant communities.
Performers: Frank London, Chali Munoz-Elias, Sahba Aminikia, Sing in Solidarity Virtual Choir: El Pueblo Unido, JenDog, Ruben Gonzalez, Sing in Solidarity Virtual Choir: The Internationale
Co-Sponsoring Organizations: People's Music Network, Women's Strike NYC, NYC-DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group
Funds go to: Ain’t I A Woman Homecare Worker Fund, Brooklyn Immigrant Community Fund, Laundry Workers Center, Worker Justice Project’s Jornalera Fund
Sing in Solidarity is a socialist movement choir based in New York City that performs songs from the myriad and global traditions of the left, using music as a creative means to support and organize alongside popular movements. In the midst of the unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic, Sing in Solidarity is supporting our undocumented comrades in New York State who have been left out from all governmental relief packages, even as many perform vital frontline labor.
Read below for more information on the organizations your donation will support.
The Ain’t I A Woman Fund is a coalition of several worker centers organizing homecare workers across New York State pooling resources to buy personal protective gear for home care workers. While this pandemic puts all of us at risk, home care workers are jeopardizing their health as frontline healthcare providers caring for the elderly or people who are ill or disabled. Many of these workers are doubly marginalized as both immigrants and care workers. The relief packages passed by the federal government exclude many immigrants from accessing critical benefits. At the same time, home care workers are often overlooked as health care providers serving at-risk populations. Agencies have failed to provide many workers with personal protective equipment just as they are working longer hours at greater personal risk than ever. Members of the Ain’t I A Woman Fund include National Movement Against Sweatshops, Chinese Staff and Workers Association, and the Flushing Worker Center.
The Brooklyn Immigrant Community Fund is set up to support our immigrant friends and neighbors who are suffering greatly, either on the front lines of this pandemic as essential workers who are keeping the city running, or left recently unemployed without the ability to work and with no where to turn for help because they are ineligible for city, state or federal assistance leaving them unable to apply for unemployment benefits, emergency rental assistance or food stamps. All the money raise by BICF goes to direct relief to aid our immigrant communities with their immediate basic needs, supporting the dozens of families calling each day who have run out of food, diapers, personal hygiene products, and are at risk of eviction. Some of these families have lost loved ones to COVID and are distressed that they do not have the money needed for burial.
The Laundry Worker Center’s Emergency COVID Response Fund provides aid to the hundreds of laundromat, restaurant, and warehouse workers who are organizing alongside them for immigrant worker justice. Designated as essential workers, LWC’s members must continue to show up on the frontline of the pandemic in laundromats, restaurants and warehouses. Many now face loss of income because of reduced hours or closed workplaces. Few have paid sick leave. Laundromat workers are at greatest risk, handling bags of soiled laundry in overcrowded workplaces without basic protective equipment -- masks, gloves, sanitizers. If they or any family member gets sick, they won't get paid if they stay home. All donations will provide funds for necessities such as food and medicine for these vulnerable workers.
The Worker Justice Project’s Jornelera Fund provides emergency aid to immigrant day laborers, primarily women domestic workers, who have been excluded from the government’s Coronavirus stimulus packages. Day laborers lack health care, paid sick leave, or job security and we encourage members to donate as they are able to WJP’s Coronavirus Jornalera (Day Laborer) Relief Fund, which provides impacted families with urgently needed funds to pay for rent, groceries, and other essentials.
Friday, May 1, at 9pm
https://www.facebook.com/events/540797756631859/?ti=ls
Join our socialist choir this International Workers’ Day as we raise our voices in sodarity with immigrant communities.
Performers: Frank London, Chali Munoz-Elias, Sahba Aminikia, Sing in Solidarity Virtual Choir: El Pueblo Unido, JenDog, Ruben Gonzalez, Sing in Solidarity Virtual Choir: The Internationale
Co-Sponsoring Organizations: People's Music Network, Women's Strike NYC, NYC-DSA Immigrant Justice Working Group
Funds go to: Ain’t I A Woman Homecare Worker Fund, Brooklyn Immigrant Community Fund, Laundry Workers Center, Worker Justice Project’s Jornalera Fund
Sing in Solidarity is a socialist movement choir based in New York City that performs songs from the myriad and global traditions of the left, using music as a creative means to support and organize alongside popular movements. In the midst of the unprecedented Coronavirus pandemic, Sing in Solidarity is supporting our undocumented comrades in New York State who have been left out from all governmental relief packages, even as many perform vital frontline labor.
Read below for more information on the organizations your donation will support.
The Ain’t I A Woman Fund is a coalition of several worker centers organizing homecare workers across New York State pooling resources to buy personal protective gear for home care workers. While this pandemic puts all of us at risk, home care workers are jeopardizing their health as frontline healthcare providers caring for the elderly or people who are ill or disabled. Many of these workers are doubly marginalized as both immigrants and care workers. The relief packages passed by the federal government exclude many immigrants from accessing critical benefits. At the same time, home care workers are often overlooked as health care providers serving at-risk populations. Agencies have failed to provide many workers with personal protective equipment just as they are working longer hours at greater personal risk than ever. Members of the Ain’t I A Woman Fund include National Movement Against Sweatshops, Chinese Staff and Workers Association, and the Flushing Worker Center.
The Brooklyn Immigrant Community Fund is set up to support our immigrant friends and neighbors who are suffering greatly, either on the front lines of this pandemic as essential workers who are keeping the city running, or left recently unemployed without the ability to work and with no where to turn for help because they are ineligible for city, state or federal assistance leaving them unable to apply for unemployment benefits, emergency rental assistance or food stamps. All the money raise by BICF goes to direct relief to aid our immigrant communities with their immediate basic needs, supporting the dozens of families calling each day who have run out of food, diapers, personal hygiene products, and are at risk of eviction. Some of these families have lost loved ones to COVID and are distressed that they do not have the money needed for burial.
The Laundry Worker Center’s Emergency COVID Response Fund provides aid to the hundreds of laundromat, restaurant, and warehouse workers who are organizing alongside them for immigrant worker justice. Designated as essential workers, LWC’s members must continue to show up on the frontline of the pandemic in laundromats, restaurants and warehouses. Many now face loss of income because of reduced hours or closed workplaces. Few have paid sick leave. Laundromat workers are at greatest risk, handling bags of soiled laundry in overcrowded workplaces without basic protective equipment -- masks, gloves, sanitizers. If they or any family member gets sick, they won't get paid if they stay home. All donations will provide funds for necessities such as food and medicine for these vulnerable workers.
The Worker Justice Project’s Jornelera Fund provides emergency aid to immigrant day laborers, primarily women domestic workers, who have been excluded from the government’s Coronavirus stimulus packages. Day laborers lack health care, paid sick leave, or job security and we encourage members to donate as they are able to WJP’s Coronavirus Jornalera (Day Laborer) Relief Fund, which provides impacted families with urgently needed funds to pay for rent, groceries, and other essentials.
Organizer
Sean Daniel
Organizer
Brooklyn, NY
