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Trabajadoras domésticas protagonizan protesta en el Congreso (VIDEO)

02/14/2017 | Divalizeth Murillo | Mundo Hispanico

Las declaraciones del congresista republicano por Carolina del Sur Mick Mulveny, nominado a la Oficina de Administración y Presupuesto de Estados Unidos, sobre no considerar a la niñera de sus tres hijas como una empleada, colmó la paciencia del gremio de trabajadoras domésticas, quienes el martes 6 de febero llegaron hasta la oficina de Mulveny en el Congreso en Washington para protestar ante su postura.

MundoHispánico conversó con Antonia Peña, líder de la protesta en la capital,...

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NEW YORK CITY’S DOMESTIC WORKERS, UNITED AGAINST TRUMP

01/23/2017 | Camila Osorio | New Yorker

In the early hours of Saturday morning, Rosa Pérez, a forty-five-year-old home health attendant from Sunset Park, Brooklyn, arrived at Port Authority terminal. Women wearing pink hats and carrying protest signs streamed through the station, en route to the march in Washington, D.C. Sipping a Dunkin’ Donuts coffee, Pérez waited with her friend Marta Martínez to board a bus chartered by the National Domestic Workers Alliance (N.D.W.A.), an organization that advocates for nannies, housecleaners...

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Black activists rally for domestic workers, immigrants — just outside the Women's March

01/21/2017 | Aaron Morrison | Mic.com

If there was one major concern of some black activists regarding Saturday's Women's March on Washington, it was that the voices of the most marginalized women of color didn't have prominent billing.

That's why a group of women and men representing domestic workers, undocumented immigrants and the working poor met less than a mile from the march's rallying point to elevate their voices. They supported the march, but wanted to affirm their cause, one day after the inauguration of Donald...

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