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Executive director of the Workers Defense Project in Texas. She is just back from the AFL-CIO quadrennial convention in Los Angeles and is in Washington, D.C., today where she will join others in a civil disobedience protest to call for comprehensive immigration reform.

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In Historic Move, AFL-CIO Expands Ranks with Vote to Include Non-Union, Immigrant, Low-Wage Workers

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