With unemployment at an all-time high, many Indigenous Latinx immigrants are struggling to make ends meet. Comunidades Indígenas en Liderazgo (CIELO), an Indigenous-women-led nonprofit organization, stepped up to help.
grassroots organizers and cultural workers Janet Martinez and Odilia Romero, CIELO advocates for the basic human rights of Indigenous workers and families. We spoke with the two women to understand how CIELO has had to redouble its efforts as COVID-19 continues to overwhelm the livelihoods of Indigenous immigrants within the state and across the country.
“What types of masks should you use? None of that [information] is out there for Indigenous language speakers. And we’ve seen the [infections] increase.”Since COVID-19, we’ve developed a video series, translated in several Indigenous languages, to contextualize the virus for our communities. We felt it was important to develop this message in video and audio formats because a lot of the people who speak these languages transmit them orally.
You’ve also been working to financially assist your community through fundraising. As of August 2, you’ve allocated $566,800 for Indigenous families through grassroots efforts. CIELO also received a $200,000 grant from the California Immigrant Resilience Fund that was dispersed to about 500 Indigenous families. How did those efforts come about?One day we just started getting calls about people needing access to resources, given the closures of the restaurant sector.
Many of these undocumented workers pay taxes. But they are not given any type of government assistance: They don’t qualify for stimulus checks. They don’t qualify for unemployment.“What would happen right now if all farmworkers stopped working, all the restaurant workers? Imagine in a regular economy if undocumented people stopped working. The economy would collapse.
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