Beyond Ground Zero

After 9-11, Chinese workers face a bleak new reality marked by mass unemployment, environmental contamination, increased health risks and government deception in an increasingly racist and anti-poor, anti-immigrant climate. CSWA immediately responded to the needs of over 10,000 garment workers left jobless, uninsured and locked out of disaster relief and formed Beyond Ground Zero, a network of organizations working in low income communities to hold government accountable. We organized over 4,000 Lover Manhattan workers in two marches in New York City and Washington D.C. to fight against discriminary relief practices and to address the disturbing range of illnesses -- from pneumonia to unexplained bleeding -- that has surged since the WTC attacks. We continue to organize in a hostile environment and believe that holding government accountable and raising a voice of dissent on domestic issues on American soil is key in building a just and peaceful world.

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