Episode: Experiences of Bay Area Day Laborers Come Alive in ‘Voices of the Undocumented’

Notable Quotes "I'm going to be told I'm not a good liberal" "We all want to help people who are on the streets, we all want to help people who are in a crisis, whether mental health, substance abuse, or any other cause, but we also, I think have a right to have civility on our streets and to not have some of these awful behaviors that we see every day in our neighborhoods...

It’s hard to miss the day laborers lined up on street corners across the Bay Area. But these workers’ diverse personal histories are not so obvious. “Voices of the Undocumented” by two volunteers at the Day Worker Center of Mountain View records the stories of nine Bay Area day laborers. We’ll discuss the book and hear from one of the workers highlighted in its pages...

Nicknamed the "Queen of Gospel," singer Mahalia Jackson became a global sensation with her hit single "Move On Up a Little Higher" in the late 1940s. She also brought her powerful voice to the civil rights movement, and made history alongside her friend Martin Luther King, Jr., at the March on Washington in 1963...