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Workers Win Wage Settlement After Community Protest

Vigll Feb. 8, 2012

Community support for workers in Durham

Durham community members gathered outside the office of the Cottages of Durham for the second time to support the payment of back wages for eight workers. 

As Durham residents, student leaders, faith community members and others gathered last night for a vigil at the offices of the Cottages of Durham, the AFSC’s Maggie Fogarty received the call they’d been hoping for.  It was Larry Vogelman, attorney for the workers on whose behalf the vigil had been organized.  The workers--eight carpenters seeking payment for unpaid wages and overtime--had reached a settlement with Cottage Builders.  They would be paid the following day.  Maggie shared this news with the forty or so assembled people, who erupted in cheers. 

Celebrating the Life and Work of Gordon Hirabayashi

Japanesse American's Boarding Train March 1942

Train to Japanesse Internment Camps March, 1942

During World War II, Gordon Hirabayashi chose to fight the internment of thousands of Japanese Americans. He spent more than two years in prisons for violating exclusion and curfew orders. He cleared his name four decades after his 1942 arrest and, in the process, helped prove the US falsified the reasons for the mass incarceration.

The American Friends Service Committee mourns the passing of Gordon Hirabayashi, a civil rights icon, Friend, and former AFSC staff member, on January 2, 2012.

His deep convictions made him challenge the authority of a military decree to intern Japanese Americans on the West Coast during World War II - thus raising the most profound issues that can be raised concerning American citizenship.

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