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Echoes from the Silence: Raising Our Voices

On 11.04.09, In Publications, Reports, By Allen

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Congratulations to Mujeres Unidas y Activas (MUA) member leaders, who, as a result of undergoing the first DataCenter-MUA participatory research project in 2006, designed and implemented their own survey project. DataCenter provided data analysis and technical support towards the end of the project. The newly released bilingual report, “Echoes from the Silence: Raising Our Voices” shares the results from a 2008 study conducted by MUA members. The objective was to understand the experiences of Latina immigrant survivors of domestic violence in the Bay Area, and offer recommendations how to improve services for Latina immigrant survivors of family violence. MUA is a leader in strategically applying tools of social science to make their stories impact policy!

full report 13 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.

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Reclaiming Koreatown

On 11.04.09, In Publications, Reports, By Allen

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In August, KIWA in association with DataCenter released Reclaiming Koreatown, a report that presents current and future needs of neighborhood residents and analyzes the challenges facing the multi-ethnic, low-income Koreatown community in Los Angeles. Rent increases, the reduction of affordable housing, displacement, unaffordable new businesses, an increase in traffic, and a decrease in parking are among top concerns, with up to 90% of surveyed residents expressing concern about these issues. The report calls for development that is accountable to the Koreatown resident community and puts forth a set of principles for improving housing affordability and economic well-being.

full report 28 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.

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Tagged with: Korean Immigrant Workers Alliance • koreatown los angeles • reclaiming koreatown

Displacing the Dream

On 01.01.08, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area newspaper coverage of development and gentrification
by the Center for Media Justice (formerly Youth Media Council) with support from DataCenter

The YMC has spent much of this year analyzing 3 months of coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune, and the San Jose Mercury News. The result is this report on the dominant and missing stories in coverage of gentrification and displacement in the Bay. With contributions from anti-displacement groups in SF and Oakland and the Miami Workers Center, research support from the DataCenter, and poetry by Roopa Singh, Displacing the Dream promises to be a groundbreaking tool to support creative communications strategies for organizers in the Bay and beyond.

full report 33 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.
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Tagged with: center for media justice • displacing the dream

Behind the Test Scores: Teaching and Learning Under Arrest

On 10.01.07, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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by Justice Matters with support from DataCenter

October 2007

In an era of high-stakes testing, there are policies and practices in West Contra Costa Unified School District that result in a narrow, unresponsive, and superficial education for thousands of low-income students of color. Behind the Test Scores: Teaching and Learning Under Arrest reports on a survey of West Contra Costa teachers. The survey results reveal discriminatory practices that shape which students receive extra attention and which do not; classrooms stripped of science, history, art, and P.E.; and schools that fail to prepare students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers. This teaching and learning crisis students are facing is due to a climate that emphasizes test scores over high quality learning that prepares students for their futures.

full report 21 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.

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Tagged with: behind the test scores report • justice matters • west contra costa unified school district

Appalachian Coalfield Delegation Position Paper on Sustainable Energy

On 05.01.07, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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Appalachian Coalfield Delegation Position Paper on Sustainable Energy
by Appalachian Coalfield Delegation & DataCenter

Spring 2007

Appalachian grassroots groups join forces with DataCenter to release a scathing report on the impact of coal mining to the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development. The Delegation created an historic moment with its powerful stories and diverse outreach. Alliances were forged and the civil society discourse on energy, particularly what is sustainable energy and who gets to define it, has been challenged. Their answer—”it comes from the people!” As most government officials continue to ignore the atrocities of mountain top removal, coal sludge impoundments, and underground injections of sludge, it is up to the people of the Appalachian coal fields to let the world know the harsh realities of an economy built on seemingly cheap electricity.

full report 22 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader (2007)

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Tagged with: appalachian coalfied delegation • united nations commission on sustainable development

Towards a Community Agenda

On 04.01.07, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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Towards a Community Agenda:
A Survey of Workers and Residents in Koreatown, Los Angeles

by the Koreatown Immigrant Workers Alliance, in association with DataCenter
April 2007

Fifteen years after the Civil Unrest in Los Angeles, this research report shows Koreatown residents and workers still face considerable challenges with substandard conditions in three main areas that community members identified through surveys: poor job quality and low wages, limited access to health care, and a lack of decent, affordable housing. Race relations and discrimination at the workplace and in housing also remain issues in Koreatown, according to the report.

full report, 17 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.

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Tagged with: koreatown immigrant workers alliance • koreatown los angeles • towards a community agenda

Behind Closed Doors

On 03.01.07, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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Behind Closed Doors:
Working Conditions of California Household Workers

By Mujeres Unidas y Activas, the Day Labor Program Women’s Collective of La Raza Centro Legal, and the DataCenter

March 2007

Household workers work in the private homes of their employers, performing tasks such as in-home child, patient, and elder care, housework, and cooking. Mujeres Unidas y Activas and the Day Labor Program Women’s Collective of La Raza Centro Legal came together to analyze and to strategize to improve the household work industry. Because there is no accurate data available about the number of household workers or information about their work conditions in California, these Bay Area organizations of low-income immigrant Latina women, many of whom are household workers, joined with the DataCenter to create a participatory research project to assess the industry. The research shows that household workers are primarily female immigrants. While supporting their employers’ homes and families, findings show household workers are working in substandard and often exploitative conditions, earning poverty wages too low to support their own families, and lacking access to basic health care.

full report 22 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader

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Tagged with: behind closed doors • domestic violence • la raza centro legal • mujeres unidas y activas

Worth More Than A Thousand Words

On 02.01.07, In Publications, Reports, By admin

Worth More Than A Thousand Words:
Picture-Based Tobacco Warning Labels and Language Rights in the U.S.

By POWER, the Tobacco Free Coalition, and the DataCenter
February 2007

Cigarette smoking kills one out of two long-term users, making tobacco consumption one of the most important public health issues for nations all over the world. At the same time, addiction to tobacco products has made transnational tobacco one of the most profitable industries in the global economy. Years of deception and misinformation have created a huge gap in public awareness of the harmful effects of tobacco products. Working class and immigrant communities throughout the United States are at once targeted by the tobacco industry as consumers, and often barred from access to public health warnings as a result of English-only text-based warning labels. One of the most successful and cost-effective policy initiatives to eliminate this gap is the use of picture-based tobacco warning labels. This report summarizes the history and current status of tobacco warning labels in the United States, describes the problem of language discrimination and the international trend toward picture-based warning labels, and details recommendations for legislative action.

Download the full report; 24 pages (PDF) in English, Spanish, Chinese. – This report is currently offline. Please click here to contact POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights for your copy today.

Tagged with: tobacco • tobacco free coalition • worth more than a thousand words

Home Is Where the Work Is

On 07.04.06, In Publications, Reports, By Allen

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Home Is Where the Work Is: Inside New York’s Domestic Work Industry
Domestic Workers United and DataCenter
July 2006
As immigrant workers nationwide battle for basic respect, a leading domestic workers’ organization released a full, unprecedented report detailing exploitative conditions and demographics of the nation’s most hidden low-wage industry. The report combines statistical analysis of data from over 500 mostly immigrant workers with personal stories of workers and employers, in a joint effort between DataCenter and Domestic Workers United. Dr. Robin D. G. Kelley’s introduction explains how the nation’s troubled history of race, gender and class inequality come shamefully together in its domestic work industry. New York University’s Immigrant Rights Clinic delivers a historical look at why the law continues to ignore household labor, perpetuating ancient views that domestic labor is not “real” work.

full report 46 pages, PDF, requires free Adobe Acrobat®Reader.

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Tagged with: domestic work industry • Domestic Workers United • new york

Plan Puebla Panama Exists and Mesoamerica Resists

On 02.01.06, In Publications, Reports, By admin

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February 2006

The Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) was formally announced in 2001 with the goal of bringing industrial development to the so-called “backward south” of Mexico and Central America and to promote Mesoamerican regional integration. Over the past five years vast resources have created, extended and modernized transportation and energy infrastructure with transnational corporations and ‘free trade’ (CAFTA) as the primary beneficiaries. Opposition by communities to these mega projects has meant governments have started to ‘hide’ PPP projects, making people believe the PPP has died a quiet death. This is far from the truth. The number of projects included in the PPP continues to grow. The GTCI (Collective Working Group of the Isthmus), UCIZONI Association of Indigenous Communities of the Northern Zone of the Tehuantepec Isthmus), Oaxaca, Mexico and the DataCenter worked together to write this document, available in both English and Spanish.

Download an excerpt of Plan Puebla Panama (10 pages, PDF, 2006)
Plan Puebla Panama: Battle of the Future of the Mesoamericas (2004)
Map As Appendix

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Echoes from the Silence: Raising Our Voices

Reclaiming Koreatown

Displacing the Dream

Behind the Test Scores: Teaching and Learning Under Arrest

Appalachian Coalfield Delegation Position Paper on Sustainable Energy

Towards a Community Agenda

Behind Closed Doors

Worth More Than A Thousand Words

Home Is Where the Work Is

Plan Puebla Panama Exists and Mesoamerica Resists

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