Immigrants have long been an essential thread in New York City's economic and social fabric.Yet the details of their lives and experiences go unheard. But not any more.
The Community News Production Institute has created the Immigrant Workers Oral History Archive, in partnership with members of Domestic Workers United, Families for Freedom, New Immigrant Community Empowerment, Street Vendor Project, and Nah We Yone. With this project, immigrants have a place to see and hear their voices and experiences documented. This project comes at a crucial time for both immigrant workers and community organizers. This ever-growing audio archive documents the voices most impacted by harsh federal immigration legislation and their strategies for fighting back.
The interviewers are immigrants and low-wage workers, every day New Yorkers trained by the Community News Project Institute. These CNPI reporters, as you are about to find out below, have covered issues that range from immigration to labor rights. The reporters themselves are directly affected by some of these issues, bringing a unique approach to these stories that most reporters ignore.
This project is made possible with support from the Paul Robeson Fund of the Funding Exchange