IDEPSCA first began organizing day laborers in the city of Pasadena in 1994. Literacy
classes in Pasadena introduced the opportunity for IDEPSCA to get to know day
laborers given our methodology.  Through the popular education methodology, day
laborers who participated in literacy classes began sharing their stories and all the
struggles they endured when it came to looking for work on the streets. The more we
learned about their situation, the clearer it became that IDEPSCA had to begin fighting
for day laborers’ rights.

Three years later, in 1997, the city contracted IDEPSCA to operate day laborer centers in
the greater Los Angeles area. IDEPSCA’s Day Laborer Program began in 1997 with the
opening of the Hollywood Community Job Center. Today, IDEPSCA manages six day
laborer centers and organizes three corners.  Throughout this time IDEPSCA
successfully raised the visibility and minimum standards of the day labor sector.  The
day laborer centers constitute a safer, more humane alternative for day laborers to look
for employment. Each job center has different dynamics, but workers’ rights remain a
standard at all facilities. Minimum wage (higher than the current state and federal
minimum) and safe working conditions are demanded at every center thus reducing the
rate of exploitation dramatically.
No one
educates
anyone, and
nobody is self
educated; all of
us learn from
each other,
mediated by
the world we
live in."

Paulo Freire
A mis amigos del barrio y toda la familia
jornalera   

Por Marcos Muncino (Jornalero)                      


Yo soy algún triunfador nato de esos que
andan por ahí,  mexicano no creo, latino
neutro, orgulloso  de mis raíces, creencias y
nuestra cultura latinoamericana a pesar de
todas  las injusticias  con las ilusiones y
sueños a cuestas como todos.


incertidumbre.  
incertidumbre.  


En donde el  delirante ebrio platicaba con los
ecos.
Donde el vicioso sigiloso tenia el éxtasis de
ilusionar su futuro incierto
Donde el pobre y el mendigo esperaban
siempre tristes los amaneceres,
para poder cargar con la responsabilidad
que aun no les tocaba.

Quizás  algunas veces humillados,
pisoteados hasta quebrantar su dignidad
Cansados de la rutina porque les hicieron
creer que ese era su destino
Resignados y condenados por su
marginación a servir siempre al rico
Explotados hasta la conciencia para que
terminaran convencidos de regresar  a la
prisión  de su propia invención...
Phone: (213)252-2952 ~ Fax (213)252-2953 ~ E-mail:  idepsca@idepsca.org
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