Amy Goodman
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Labor Leader Eliseo Medina on Fasting For Immigration Reform, Organizing With César Chávez
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December 13, 2013
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SUMMARY:
The Republicancontrolled House of Representatives has finished its work for the year without passing comprehensive immigration reform. On Thursday, leaders from both parties promised to revisit the issue early in the new year. Meanwhile, more than 1,000 immigration activists descended into the offices of House lawmakers on Thursday afternoon to protest the House's inaction on the issue. The demonstrations came as the immigration reform organization "Fast For Families" concluded 31 days of fasting. We speak to Eliseo Medina, former International SecretaryTreasurer of the Service Employees International Union. Medina recently spent 22 days on a wateronly fast. Medina worked alongside labor leader and civil rights activist César Chávez for 13 years. His career as a labor activist began in 1965 when, as a 19yearold grape picker, he participated in the historic United Farm Workers' strike in Delano, California.
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