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Appalachian Coalfield Delegation
Position Paper on Sustainable Energy
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.
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new:
Behind the Test Scores: Teaching and Learning Under
Arrest
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.
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new:
Displacing the Dream: A report on Bay Area newspaper
coverage of development and gentrification
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.
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Towards
a Community Agenda: A Survey of Workers and Residents
in Koreatown, Los Angeles
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.
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Behind
Closed Doors:
Working Conditions of California Household Workers
Mujeres
Unidas y Activas, Day
Labor Program Women's Collective of La Raza Centro Legal,
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.
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Worth More
Than A Thousand Words:
Picture-Based Tobacco Warning Labels and Language
Rights
in the U.S.
POWER,
Tobacco Free Coalition, 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.
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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.
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Puebla Panama Exists and Mesoamerica Resists
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.
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Plan Puebla Panamá Existe y Mesoamérica
Resiste
Febrero 2006
El Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) fue anunciado formalmente
en 2001 con el
objetivo de llevar el desarrollo industrial a un "sur
atrasado" de Mexico y America Central y de buscar
la integración regional mesoamericana. Durante
los últimos cinco años, amplios recursos
han creado, ampliado y modernizado infraestructura
de comunicaciones y energética, acciones que
benefician de manera principal a las grandes corporaciones
transnacionales y el 'libre comercio'(CAFTA). Oposición
a estos megaprojectos por parte de las comunidades
ha significado que los gobiernos han comenzado a 'esconder'
los projectos del PPP, haciendo al pueblo creer que
el PPP se ha muerto silenciosamente lo cual esta lejos
de la verdad. El número de proyectos incluidos
en el PPP sigue creciendo. El GTCI (Grupo de Trabajo
Colectivo del Istmo), UCIZONI (Unión de Comunidades
Indígenas de la Zona Norte del Istmo de Tehuantepec),
Oaxaca, México y el DataCenter trabajaron juntos
para escribir este documento, en español e
inglés.
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Plan
Puebla Panama: Battle of the Future of Mesoamerica
2nd edition, 2004
The Plan Puebla Panama (PPP) is an estimated $10 billion,
10 to 25 year regional integration project to create
and interconnect transportation routes, industrial corridors
and a variety of infrastructure projects throughout
southern Mexico and Central America, and firmly root
the global 'free trade" agenda in the region. This
booklet unmasks the lies of "development"
that the PPP promises. It features articles by peopleand
organizations in Central America, Mexico, and the United
States. Produced by the Network Opposed to Plan Puebla
Panama (No-PPP), of which DataCenter is a member.
US$4.00, 41 pages, printed edition.
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Peace
& Justice Community Summit:
Policy Recommendation & Briefing Packets
2004
Policy recommendations and supporting information to
end discrimination against people who have been in prison.
Produced by All of Us or None, DataCenter and East Bay
Community Law Center for series of Bay Area Peace &
Justice Community Summits.
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San Francsico Briefing Packet
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East Palo Alto Briefing Packet
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Bay Area Briefing Packet (14 pages, compilation)
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Justice
Detained: The Effects of Deportation on Immigrant Families
2004
Documents the economic and emotional hardship that deportations
cause to families left behind, and recommends specific
legislative changes to Illegal Immigration and Immigrant
Responsibility Act (IIRIRA). Produced by Asian &
Pacific Islander Youth Promoting Advocacy & Leadership
and DataCenter.
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Oakland
Takeover
ly-huong nguyen &
terry marshall, 2003
A look at school takeovers in California with a focus
on Oakland that reveals deep connections to national
educational trends of incapacitating public education
and disenfranchising poor and people of color communities.
Includes chronology of school district takeovers in
California and profiles of Oakland school takeover players,
the Broad Foundation and Randolph Ward. Produced by
DataCenter Youth Strategy Project.
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Know
Your Rights: Crackdown on the Undocumented
2002
This factsheet explains the laws, executive orders
and regulations that have stripped basic rights from
immigrants since September 11. It summarizes key provisions
of the so-called "Patriot Act," parameters
of the Presidential order on military tribunals, and
federal guidelines for using secret evidence against
immigrants. Produced by DataCenter for Homies Unidos.
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The
State of Welfare in Butte County
2002
Focusing on Butte County, California, the report documents
how the dramatic decline in welfare rolls has had
little impact on reducing rural family poverty, even
for former recipients who find employment. Includes
welfare policy recommendations. Produced by Low Income
Families' Empowerment Through Education, Californians
for Economic Self Sufficiency: A Project of the National
Economic Development and Law Center, DataCenter, Grass
Roots Organizing for Welfare Leadership, and National
Campaign for Jobs and Income Support.
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Moving
Stronger: Needs of the Criminal Justice Reform Movement
Grace Chang, 2001
Assesses the state of grassroots organizing in
the U.S. around a broad spectrum of criminal justice
reform issues. Drawn from a national survey of more
than 200 organizations and in-depth interviews, the
report offers the insights and analyses of long-time
organizers and emerging leaders, in their own words.
Produced by DataCenter Criminal Justice Program for
Open Society Institute.
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