FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Indian Guest Workers, Survivors of Labor Trafficking Launching Hunger Strike in Front of White House to Demand Protection Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

[Indian Guest Workers, Survivors of Labor Trafficking Launching Hunger Strike in Front of White House to Demand Protection Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act]

 

CONTACT:

Stephen Boykewich, Media Director, New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice: (504) 655-0876, spboykewich@gmail.com

 

On Wednesday, May 14th, at 10 a.m., a group of Indian guest workers who broke an 18-month US-Indian labor trafficking chain earlier this year will launch a hunger strike to demand that the US government grant them Continued Presence in the United States under the Trafficking Vicitims Protection Act to participate in an ongoing Department of Justice investigation into alleged labor trafficking by Northrop Grumman subcontractor Signal International and US and Indian recruiters.

 

Six of the more than 500 workers will launch a water-only hunger strike in Lafayette Park in view of the White House on Wednesday with a press event including allies from US labor unions and civil rights organizations. Approximately 30 more workers will be joining the hunger strike over the next two weeks. The workers are members of the Alliance of Guest Workers for Dignity, a grassroots project of the New Orleans Workers’ Center for Racial Justice [NOWCRJ] (www.neworleansworkerjustice.org).

 

WHAT: Launch of hunger strike by Indian labor trafficking survivors

WHEN: 10 a.m., Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

WHERE: Lafayette Park, 16th Street and Pennsylvania Ave, north of White House

CONTACT: Stephen Boykewich, Media Director, NOWCRJ: 504-655-0876, spboykewich@gmail.com

 

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