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  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2007

CNPI's Christine Lewis of Domestic Workers United hosts a half hour special on New York radio station WBAI. Marking International Working Women's Day, Christine brings to the airwaves the stories of the City's 200,000 domestic workers and nannies. She was joined by leaders of the domestic workers movement, all immigrant women of color, who detailed their struggle for basic labor rights.

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2007

CNPI's Christine Lewis reports on the aftermath of two Indonesian domestic workers who were held captive in the home of their wealthy employer in Long Island

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2007

Hundreds of nannies and caregivers marched in New York over the weekend to call for State lawmakers to pass a Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Currently domestic workers, who are mostly immigrant women of color, are written out of most standard labor laws. But there is a new movement spurred by the workers themselves to change that. CNPI's Christine Lewis reports.

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2007

CNPI's Christine Lewis, of DWU, reports from protests in Brooklyn in response to the arrests of 32 youths of color.

 

 

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2007

CNPI's Christine Lewis, Domestic Workers United, speaks with Guillermina Castellano, with the San Francisco Day Laborers Program, about domestic work from California to New York.

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2008

Thousands of migrant workers are regularly brought into the Gulf Coast by US based corporations that exploit them and then threaten to deport them if they complain. In April 2006, more than 500 workers from India were lured into this country under false promises. Early this year, some of the enslaved Indian workers walked from New Orleans to Washington DC to protest their illtreatment. They recently came to NYC to express their support for other immigrant workers. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis spoke to one of them, Aby Reju.

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2008

Domestic Workers staged a protest in front of the home of an employer who is said to have abused her nanny. CNPI reporter Christine Lewis was there to compile these voices.

  • produced by Christine Lewis
  • in 2008

On June 26th, a judge sentenced a Long Island couple for the abuse of two Indonesian domestic workers. Christine Lewis (Domestic Workers United) files this report for Free Speech Radio News.