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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 2003
Jackson, 13 others arrested
at rally for Yale employees
1,000 marched in Labor Day event
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW HAVEN, Conn. - The
Rev. Jesse Jackson and 13 other
people were arrested Monday after
they blocked traffic on the Yale
University campus in support of
university service and clerical
workers on strike.
Jackson led more than 1,000
people on a Labor Day march and
rally in support of the striking
workers before he was arrested.
“This is the site of national
Labor Day outrage,” Jackson said.
“This is going to be for econom
ic justice what Selma was for the
right to vote.”
The march began shortly after 9
a.m. at a community center on
Dixwell Avenue and was to culmi
nate in a rally at Yales Beinecke
Plaza and Woodbridge Hall, which
houses university President
Richard Levin's office.
Jackson has been in
Connecticut since last week, when
Yale service and clerical workers
walked off the job in a dispute over
wages and pension benefits.
Yale University negotiators and
leaders of striking labor unions have
agreed to return to the negotiating
table with New Haven Mayor John
DeStefano Jr. on Wednesday.
Locals 34 and 35 of the Hotel
Employees and Restaurant
Employees International and 140
hospital workers went on strike last
Wednesday over wages, job security
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and pensions. The unions represent
about 4,000 workers, but some of
them have crossed the picket lines.
On Sunday, Jackson and union
workers addressed the contract
dispute during sendees at Varick
Memorial AME Zion Church and
other churches in New Haven.
“This city is our city,” Jackson
told churchgoers, “and Yale is our
inheritance. Save the workers. Save
the families. Keep hope alive.”
Yale spokesman Tom Conroy
replied in a prepared statement that
“the Reverend Jackson could point
to Yale as a model employer which
provides job security, great benefits
and free health care. Yale also prac
tices affirmative action in its hiring
practices and admissions."
Jackson later met with leaders
of the National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People,
which supported his efforts.
Yale officials say their latest
eight-year contract offer to the
workers is generous, with pay rais
es of 3 percent to 5 percent, pen
sion benefit increases and signing
bonuses worth 50 percent of pay
raises they would have received
dating back to January 2002,
w'hen the last contract expired.
The unions w ant more substan
tial raises and larger pension ben
efits, as well as retroactive pay for
the 20 months workers have
stayed on the job without con
tracts.
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F L I CK E R
News
Alderman called to action by trip to Mexico
BY MICHELLE JARBOE
FEATURES EDITOR
Plucking a grape from a bowl
on his kitchen table, Carrboro
Alderman John Herrera ruefully
examined the fruit, saying that
before this summer, he never truly
understood its cost.
After spending more than six
weeks in Mexico, Herrera
returned to Carrboro on Aug. 13
with a change in perspective and a
heightened commitment to the
Mexican people.
“As an elected official, I feel that
I have a responsibility to learn
more about the people of Mexico
and why they immigrate to Chapel
Hill and Carrboro,” he said. “I had
heard a lot of stories, but I want
ed to see for myself.”
In October, Herrera was invited
to apply for an Eisenhower
Fellowship, a travel grant funded
by corporate sponsorship, past fel
lows and various endowments.
Each year, 10-15 fellows from the
United States create unique trav
el plans that will enhance aspects
of their careers.
Along with the Philadelphia area
and New England, the Triangle
annually yields many fellows.
Criteria for the program include
having five to 10 years of leadership,
a project’s potential for impact on
society and a fellow’s enthusiasm
for continued education.
Herrera, the first Eisenhower
Fellow to travel to Mexico, visited
various economic, political and
social figures and focused on an
investigation of two issues he sees
as pivotal to the Mexican commu
nity in Carrboro: economics and
immigration.
“The idea was to get a perspec
tive from folks on the right, center
and left so I could form my own
opinions,” he said.
Arriving June 29, he began and
ended each day with breakfast and
dinner meetings. Herrera said that
for six weeks he never went to bed
before midnight.
He became an accredited inter
national observer for the July 6
municipal and gubernatorial elec
tions in Mexico City. Traveling
between lavish haciendas and
makeshift cardboard homes of
migrant workers, Herrera docu
mented the stories of the indige-
nous people he met.
“I realized how big Mexico real
ly is and how rich and diverse it is,”
he said. “It’s a country of contrast
and extremes.”
Herrera was struck by the
strength and poverty of the
Mexican people as he toured farms
and joined the border patrol res
cue squads at Tijuana and
Mexicali.
“I saw 12-year-old children
prostituting themselves. They did
n’t even have a body yet, but
they’re full of makeup," he said.
“People have to work, and that’s
what they do.”
Those who tried to cross into
the United States often became
prey for coyotes and thieves.
Herrera saw stripped bones
strewn in the desert as testimonies
to failed immigration attempts.
“I didn’t know' if I wanted to
vomit or to cry or what," he said.
While documenting failed bor
der crossings, he visited the El
Buen Pastor shelter, where injured
indigenous people nursed stumps
of limbs and waited for the pros
thetics that would enable them to
attempt another immigration.
Many of these patients were
crippled by falls from trains, while
some of the women were raped
and beaten wririle trying to hide or
to cross.
“These people risk their lives
just to come here and work," he
said. “Forget about education and
everything else people just w ant
to eat.”
Many of the farming families
lived in huts of plastic tarp, sup
porting themselves on salaries of
less than $7 per day. On some
farms, child care was provided in
the form of tiny, unventilated
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work temporarily or participate in
cultural exchange workshops.
Herrera said U.S citizens who
work with the immigrant commu
nity could benefit from learning
how practices, from religious tra
ditions to psychiatric treatment,
are handled in Mexico.
Herrera said he wants to con
duct financial management cours
es in Mexico to encourage more
responsible use of the billions of
dollars in remittances sent each
year by Mexican immigrants to
their families.
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Carrboro Alderman John Hererra (far left) visits with the director of El
Buen Pastor (left), a patient and volunteers in Tapachula, Mexico.
spaces where children slept during
the day. At other sites, Herrera
said, there was no place for the
children but the fields.
“Some farmers were telling me
that the 6-, 7- and 8-year-old kids
are some of the fastest pickers of
tomatoes,” he said.
“It just hurt my back watching
them ... from sunup to sundown,
bending over all day.”
After seeing the living conditions
of indigenous people in Mexico,
Herrera returned home with the
desire to focus on workers' condi
tions locally and to demonstrate
Herrera also said Carrboro can
learn from the successes of Mexican
cities. “Some places do so much
with so little,” Herrera said. “It’s not
a matter of having resources. It’s a
matter of having ideas.”
Herrera said that overall, such a
program would facilitate the inte
gration of the growing Mexican
population into the country. “It
would help us appreciate each other
and treat each other with respect
and dignity,” he said. “We need to
learn, and it’s a mutual process."
Lupe said she and her neighbors
w'ork to maintain their Mexican
traditions in Carrboro, but she said
she fears the next generation might
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what he termed his emotional, spir
itual and physical connection to the
Mexican community.
He said he intends to further
connections between Carrboro and
its potential Mexican sister city,
Juventino Rosas, and to w'ork for
the rights of undocumented immi
grants and the standard of living in
Mexico.
“I don’t know how people there
survive," he said, “but the fact that
they do survive gives me hope.”
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begin to lose the culture. “I don’t
like to see two people who speak
Spanish speaking English to one
another on the street,” she said in
Spanish. “I don’t w'ant our tradi
tions to be lost, or our accents.”
Lupe said the formation of a sis
ter-city relationship would encour
age Mexicans in Carrboro to share
their cultures rather than replace
them. “It’s an opportunity to share
our traditions and our language,”
Lupe said in Spanish. “Sometime
in the future, (U.S.) culture will be
mixed and improved.”
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