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Dear Friend,
There was so much joy and progress at Adhikaar last week that we couldn’t wait until our next newsletter to share it with you all. Adhikaar at the White House Adhikaar members were at the White House twice last week to advocate for a pathway to citizenship for all!
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Member leader Rukmani Bhattarai participated in a small roundtable meeting with Vice President Kamala Harris to share her story of being TPS holder and nanny. As part of the national #WeCantWait campaign for immigration reform, Rukmani also brought to the Vice President’s attention the lives of countless other TPS holders and essential workers like her who need a pathway to citizenship. |
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Rukmani shared space with five other Domestic Workers, Senator Durbin and Senator Menendez. Shout out to the National Domestic Workers Alliance for facilitating the meeting. Check out AOC’s tweet about Rukmani and Adhikaar! |
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TPS member Raj Tamang from Virginia participated in a meeting led by the We Are Home campaign and our comrades from Communities United for Status and Protection (CUSP) with Cedric Richmond, former Congressman and now Senior Advisor to the President of the United States and Director of The White House Office of Public Engagement. |
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Raj shared his story as a TPS holder and father of a U.S-born citizen daughter to express the urgency in our demand for citizenship for all. |
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Rallying for Domestic Workers’ Rights in Across NY and NJ
Last Wednesday was International Domestic Workers’ Day and we couldn’t think of a better way to commemorate than to hit the streets.
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As the culmination of an intense three-year campaign, we celebrated the introduction of the New Jersey Domestic Worker Bill of Rights in the New Jersey state legislature. Alongside our partners at National Domestic Workers Alliance, Casa Freehold, Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, Lazos America Unida, Unidad Latina en Acción NJ, New Labor and Wind of the Spirit - Wot, we mobilized over 150 members to urge New Jersey legislatures to pass the NJ |
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Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. The bill would establish and enforce crucial rights for NJ’s 50,000 domestic workers. Adhikaar NJ Fellow Tsering Thakuri spoke at the march (in her native Mustang indigenous language) as did member leader Santa Ghimire. If you missed out on the amazing march, don’t worry, we caught it all on Facebook LIVE here and you can view more photos here! |
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On Wednesday we rallied in front of New York City Hall to join our NYC Care Campaign partners to urge for the passage of #Int339 which would expand human rights protections to domestic workers in NYC. Along with partner organizations National Domestic Workers Alliance - New York, Carroll Gardens Association and Hand in Hand: The Domestic Employers Network, our members rallied and participated in a flash mob to bring attention to the lack of protection for domestic workers.
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Our long time member leader Sharada Gurung spoke truth to power at the rally, urging Speaker Johnson to bring the bill to a floor vote immediately.
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It’s not too late to help out the campaign! You can sign our petition targeting Speaker Johnson to bring #Int339 to the floor and make sure Domestic Workers are protected. |
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Adhikaar’s Ranked Choice Voting Lighting Up Union Square
In collaboration with DemocracyNYC and Nepali illustrator Untamed Anatomy, we created an art piece to educate voters about Ranked Choice Voting. We were so excited to see the piece projected at Union Square in Manhattan Thursday evening.
This project is a part of our larger civic engagement work for New York City elections which included candidate forum, phonebanking, textbanking and conducting voter education through ethnic media and social media.
As always, our work could not be made possible without the support of individual supporters like yourself. If you are inspired by what you see, as I am, then please consider giving to Adhikaar!
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With your support, we strive to continue fighting for the rights, dignity and power of Nepali-speaking communities and immigrant workers everywhere.
In solidarity,
Pabitra Khati Benjamin Executive Director
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