Day Labor Network Spreading Propaganda

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Here is another nonprofit, supported by your tax dollars and giving jobs to illegals here in the US.

The Institute of Popular Education of Southern California (IDEPSCA) is a non-profit community-based educational organization incorporated in 1991. Your contribution will help educate and organize immigrant families: day laborers, household workers, adult learners, parents, youth and children to develop and promote self-sufficiency.
As a community organization that believes that it is only through our working together that we may achieve our goals IDEPSCA relies on donations from a wide base of individuals and institutions.
Currently, IDEPSCA operates 6- Day Laborers sites: Hollywood, Downtown Fashion District, West Los Angeles, Harbor City, Cypress Park and Pasadena. Besides the centers IDEPSCA also organizes workers in two corners: Chesterfield Square in South Central Los Angeles and Canoga Park in the San Fernando Valley.
The Day Laborer Community Job Centers provide a humane way to look for work and offer a learning environment through literacy, English classes and information about health, labor and immigrant laws. These centers also function as a public safety alternative to soliciting employment on the street corners and suffering from severe exploitation and unsafe working conditions.
Due to supply and demand paradigm, the day laborers are forced to compete with each other promoting employers to take advantage and ending in paying day laborer from $6 to $10 per hour. However, $8.00 an hour is the norm due to the extreme pressure of trying to make ends meet. At IDEPSCA centers, the workers have established their own minimum wage.
How we work
The Day Laborer Program provides honest, organized, and respectful workers to do the job that may be required from an employer. The employer may call ahead or request a worker in person. Each center follows a registration system to distribute the jobs, but the employer is free to choose a worker in particular. IDEPSCA centers do not charge any fees to the employers or the workers.
Cypress Park Community Job Center
2055 North Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90065
Ph: (323) 223-2021
Fax: (323) 223-1430
Hollywood Community Job Center
5669 W. De Longpre Avenue
Hollywood, CA 90038
Ph: (323) 469-9002
Fax: (323) 469-9003
Pasadena Community Job Center
500 North Lake Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 91101
Ph: (626) 440-0112
Fax: (626) 440-0114
Harbor City Day Laborer Site
Figueroa Place and Pacific Coast Highway
Los Angeles, CA 90710
Ph: (310) 663-1103
Fax: (213) 252-2953
Downtown Community Job Center
1813 & 1815 S. Main Street
Los Angeles, CA 90015
Ph: (213) 747-2064
Fax: (213) 747-2066
West Los Angeles Community Job Center
11299 West Exposition Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90064
Ph: (310) 231-1179
Fax: (310) 231-9242
Hours of Operation
The hours are 6:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through
Saturday. If you need a worker for Sunday you may call
ahead to make arrangements during our business hours.
Type of Skills/ Jobs:
• Carpenters- Flooring, Framing and Furniture
• Landscaping- Gardening and Bush Clearance, Pilling, Planting, Trimming, and Sprinklers
• Plumber- Piping, Digging
• Painting- Exterior and Interior
• Moving- Loading and Unloading
• Masonry- Demolition, Drywall, Plastering, Roofing, Tile, Cement
• Janitorial- Clean ups
• Car Related Mechanic, Car Wash, Waxing, Polish and Body Shop
• Electricians
• Handyman
• House Cleaning
• General Labor
Get Involved!
Volunteer Opportunities
Volunteering with the Day Laborer Program connects you with hundreds of workers from different cultural backgrounds. It provides an interactive way to understand and engage with the day laborer phenomenon through our Popular Education Methodology. We offer rewarding opportunities at the different Community Job Centers and in the organized corners. In all cases, training is provided to ensure that your volunteer experience is both enjoyable and fruitful.
Labor and Civil Rights
Workers cannot defend their rights if they ignore such rights. Our volunteers prepare workshops and materials to inform and educate workers about their labor and civil rights.
ESL Classes
A large number of workers are not English speakers. ESL classes are one of the most crucial needs at the centers. Our volunteers develop curriculums that are specifically designed to prepare workers for conversations and writing skills needed in the workplace.
Special Events
Our volunteers help us organize and host memorable special events, including:
Center’s Anniversary Celebrations, Fundraisers, Cultural Celebrations, and Sports Events.
Special Projects
Bring new exciting projects to the Day Laborer Community Job Centers. Through the hard work and dedication of many volunteers we have been able to organize different special projects to promote the life and work of day laborers and household workers in Los Angeles and Pasadena such as: photographic exhibits, day laborer art exhibits, talent shows, theater, and film.
http://idepsca.org/daylabor

[Jeanfromfillmore]

Just another nonprofit helping illegals here in Calif.

Pomona Economic Opportunity Center (909) 397-4215
pomona.eoc@verizon.net
The PEOC is a non-profit day labor organization whose mission is to provide an opportunity for day laborers to find safe work at a fair wage, to organize and advocate for themselves, to obtain new trades and skills that improve their employability and quality of life, and to improve the overall conditions for all immigrant workers.
Labor site: Home Depot
1682 W. Mission Blvd.
Pomona, CA 91766
(in the parking lot of HD Supply store)
Hours of operation:
Monday – Saturday: 6:00 AM – 2:00 PM
Sunday: 6:00 AM – 12:00 PM
Programs
Immigrant Rights Organizing
The PEOC is recognized throughout the region, and increasingly throughout the state, as a leading immigrant rights organization in eastern Los Angeles County and the Inland Empire. In 2009, we organized a successful campaign against the Riverside Border Patrol Station, which stopped the raids on day laborers by uniting a diverse coalition of supporters, developing a media strategy to call attention to quotas and racial profiling, and using legislative advocacy at both the local and federal levels.
In 2008, we entered into a partnership with the Laborers Union, Change to Win, and the National Day Laborer Organizing Network to organize low-wage immigrant workers. We created the Day Laborer Congress of the Inland Empire made up of over 80 day laborer leaders to advocate for day laborers’ rights on a regional level. Jointly with local community leaders, we created the Pomona Habla Coalition in 2008, which has dramatically decreased the number of discriminatory driver’s license checkpoints in the city.
ESL Classes
During the academic year, the Center welcomes student volunteers six days per week (Monday through Saturday) to teach English as a Second Language (less regularly during the summer). Generally, ESL classes are offered from 8:30 to 10:30 and 10:30 to 12:30 and are taught by students from the Claremont Colleges, Cal Poly Pomona, and by community members. The teachers range from completely bilingual Spanish-English speakers to English Speakers with limited Spanish-speaking skills.
The ESL at the Center is primarily survival, work-based English focused on conversation skills. The language skills of the workers have a wide range – we have workers that do not have a high literacy level in their native language of Spanish, some who are at the beginning level of ESL, and others who are very advanced and essentially bilingual. More advanced students or those who want more intensive classroom instruction are encouraged to register for classes at the Pomona Adult Education Center or the Community Education program at Mt. San Antonio Community College (Mt. Sac).
Health Education and Outreach
A $10,000 grant the PEOC received from the California Foundation (you see, the other nonprofits support this one they all hide where the money goes)facilitated the initial development of a health education and outreach programs to the day laborers, put into action through collaboration of a part time day laborer health coordinator and volunteer Pitzer College intern. This primary phase of the health program resulted in approximately one dozen health presentations on a wide variety of preventative health topics, a carwash fundraiser raising over $500 in funds for an uninsured injured day laborer, the establishment of a day labor soccer team, and a free clinic where day laborers were given physical exams and clinic referrals.