Gabriel Thompson is the author of Working in the Shadows (Nation Books, 2010). He is working on a biography of Fred Ross—the legendary organizer who trained Cesar Chavez—titled America’s Social Arsonist.
Around the country, the temperature in immigrant communities is rising--and on Sunday, Washington, DC, felt the heat.
Top dogs and underdogs brush shoulders in Manhattan.
Outraged at the 17 percent fees they are charged on money they wire home, immigrant workers are pressuring Western Union to reinvest the profits.


