Pasadena Day Laborers to Host COVID-Safe Protest at City Hall at 10 a.m.

Pasadena day laborers and allies will host a “COVID-safe car protest” at 10 a.m. this morning in front of City Hall to call on elected officials to support all Pasadena’s essential and excluded workers.

100 cars are expected to park in front of a City Hall.

“The federal government has doubled down on racist federal exclusions,” and email from the National Day Laborer Organizing Network. “The question is what our own cities and states will do about it.  It is clear that working people – day laborers, janitors, domestic workers, factory workers and every area of food service workers — are all essential parts of our economy, of our communities. We don’t just contribute, we subsidize US industries.  While millions are safe at home, immigrants are out and working.”

Many immigrants did not receive aid through Trump Administration’s stimulus package. Gov. Gavin Newsom says he will provide funds for them. So far that has not been scheduled.

“So on April 29 — two days before May Day — we will tell our elected officials,  If you accept immigrants’ labor, you must accept our right to emergency aid, our right to health, our right to safe workplaces, and our right to legal personhood,” the release said.