“Yo he trabajado en la contrucción y restaurantes. Como muchos trabajadores como yo, hemos sufrido abusos en el cumplimiento de pagos y hasta maltratos a nosotros, y todo eso hemos tenido que soportar para poder mantener a nuestras familias y tratar de darles una educación a nuestros hijos. Necesitamos de una Reforma Migratoria justa para la protección de los trabajadores. Nosotros somos parte de la comunidad, de este país y nuestra cultura y labor también ha hecho más rico a este país” Dijo Dionisio Pelayo Lider con El Centro Humanitario para los Trabajadores.  Para ver el Articulo completo oprima Aqui!

WHAT ITS NEXT

Familias Unidas
Community Meeting for Immigration Reform
with Congressman Jared Polis,
Congressman Luis Gutierrez
and Archbishop Charles Chaput

June 13, 2009

Doors open at 11 AM, Event Begins at 12:30 PM
Immaculate Heart of Mary, Parish Center
11385 Grant St., Denver, CO, 80233

Please join us for this historic event as faith leaders, community members
and Congressional representatives champion immigration reform and demonstrate the urgency of fixing our broken immigration system.

For more information contact Raul at 720-363-6075 or by e-mail at rpastrana@centrohumanitario.org

Voice-raiser for Immigrant Workers
El Centro Benefit w/ PAPER BIRD

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Dani M. Cornejo from Debajo del Agua has been add it to the line up!!!

Please join us Friday, June 19th at the Oriental Theater to benefit El Centro’s Community-Based Film Project.  Our amazing and talented friends at Paper Bird and Des Tours have graciously agreed to play their unique and wonderful music for us all!  Don’t miss out!

We will begin the evening by screening a short film about the lives of local Immigrant Workers followed by a discussion panel.  Also joining us, Jason Bosch from ArgusFest will provide video art, Cafe Cultura will enlighten us with their poetry and DJ Sarah Slater will spin records before the film and between sets.

A Silent Auction will be held as well as a raffle for prizes.

For more information, click on the Events tab or click here.

Back By Popular Demand!!

Enjoy fabulous food from all over the Americas, prepared by El Centro’s Women’s Program members. The women will also be selling their hand-made sewing projects and jewelry.

There will also be live music, poetry readings, folkoric dancing, a silent auction, and FUN! Other groups from Africa, Asia, and Iraq will have tables selling their goods.

Entrance is Free — A plate of 4 food items (you choose from over a dozen entrees and desserts) is $5. You can buy as many plates as you like!

Come between 1-6pm on Saturday, April 25th — come when you can and stay as long as you like. And bring your friends!

We “taste-tested” the food, and it is so good it will make you cry!

All proceeds go to support the work — and workers — of El Centro.

Date:	Saturday, April 25, 2009
Time:	1:00pm – 6:00pm
Location:	El Centro Humanitario
Street:	2260 California St.
City/Town:	Denver, CO

Check out some pictures of the Women’s coop great manual work.  click here!

The women have several coops and you can even contract them for catering.  We will be posting more information about their goods and work in this blog regularly, so comeback.

Online store coming soon!

On the meantime contact Nancy at nrosas@centrohumanitario.org for more information about how to buy their work, or simply come to the Centro Humanitario Building from 8 am to 1pm and check some of their jewelry and work.  Centro is located at 2260 California Street, Denver CO.  Ask someone to show you their jewelry for sale!

Channel 9 was at El Centro on the morning of April 8th filming part of their story about DU Campus Ministry’s PB&J Nights that provide our workers with lunches on Wednesdays in Denver.  Here’s the link, which has both a written story and the video that aired on TV featuring Centro’s Development/Outreach Director Anne Dunlap and our very own Denver Day Laborer Leader Gilberto Velazquez Rivera.

http://www.9news.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=113430&catid=339

Cleaning Day Aurora Colorado March 2009

We began with 15 Day Laborers but at the end more than 40 workers showed up.  We cleaned on Dayton from the Shadow Theater on Colfax to Montview street.  This was an action that the leaders themselves came up with to show our organizing power in the streets and also to support the area where they wait for work every day.  More actions like this will be happening in the coming weeks.  Go to the links below to see the Denver Post Slide Show and article.

Denver Post Slide Show about the Cleaning Day

Denver Post Article about the Cleaning Day