Making Headlines for Change
Casa Latina takes great pride in the support it receives from the Seattle community in providing the best opportunities for immigrant workers.
Since our beginnings, we’ve grown greatly in both size and stature. In our first year, we served 350 adults with ESL classes and other educational outreach programs. Now, Casa Latina directly serves over 1,500 people: over 750 immigrants and 750 customers (both homeowners and contractors) every year.
Casa Latina in the News
"Latino Workers’ Center Settles In" Real Change News, July 8, 2009
"Unions Embrace Street Corner Solidarity" Inter Press Services, June 8, 2009
"Grassroots Labourers Plough Common Ground" Inter Press Services, June 5, 2009
"Jornalero Juan Us Tiquiram: Video interview with Casa Latina participant" by Peter Constantini, Inter Press Services, March 2009
"Building a House for Day Labourers" Inter Press Services, February 3, 2009
"Demand Dries Up For On-Demand" Inter Press Services, December 23, 2008
"CASA Latina's unlikely ally -- Asian Americans" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 31, 2007
"On CASA Latina" The North American Post, May 9, 2007
"Thousands rally to support immigration-law changes" Seattle Times, May 2, 2007
"Is Seattle ready to be immigrant sanctuary?" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 11, 2007
"Day-labor agency's move stirs 11th-hour opposition" Seattle Times, March 18, 2007
"Groups condemn immigration raids" Seattle Times, February 16, 2007
"No place like home for CASA Latina" Seattle Times, February 16, 2007
"CASA Latina eyes Central Area site; City Council awards program $250,000 for new HQ" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 13, 2007
"CASA Latina finds a new home" Seattle Times, February 13, 2007
"AFL-CIO Embraces Immigrants In Pact With Day-Laboror Group" Wall Street Journal, August 10, 2006
"AFL-CIO to work with day laborers" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, August 10, 2006
"Huge turnout for rally in Seattle" Seattle Times, May 02, 2006
"Stunning turnout credited to word-of-mouth network" Seattle Times, April 12, 2006
"Immigration march, rally today" Seattle Times, April 10, 2006
"Hundreds back day laborers" Seattle Times, April 02, 2006
"Day laborers seek change in law" Seattle Times, March 5, 2006
"Day laborers plan to show solidarity" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 3, 2006
"Research Sheds Light on Plight of Day Laborers"KUOW, January 25, 2006
"Risky business: Day workers suffer injustice, injuries" Seattle PI, January 25, 2006
"Daze of Labor, Days of Change" August 31, 2005
"Hard Work, Hard Times: Tensions rise in Sodo as day laborers crowd sidewalks" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, June 29, 2005
"Color this decision blue - as in sad" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 11, 2005
"CASA Latina says it'll pass on store site" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 11, 2005
"CASA Latina gets cold shoulder" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, April 2, 2005
"Neighbors get mean when race and class join in" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 7, 2005
"No Respect: CASA Latina gets cold shoulder in Rainier Valley" Real Change, February 23, 2005
"Empathy: What if you were in their shoes?" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, February 16, 2005
"Illegal workers question Bush plan to grant them legal status" Seattle Post-Intelligencer, January 9, 2004
"Group to protest airline caterer's role in roundup Skychefs"- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, May 22, 2002
"Will local migrant workers see relief soon?"- Seattle Magazine, May 2002
"House passes amnesty measure"-Seattle Post Intelligencer, March 13, 2002
"Immigrant Laborers feel stranded in Pacific Northwest as day job dry up"- The New York Times, January 27, 2002
"Latinos fear using bus line"-The Arizona Republic, December 2001
"Day laborers going unpaid"- The Denver Post, November 29, 2001
"For Amnesty, Mexican workers seek sanctuary in movement for immigration reform"-Real Change, October 2001
"Quiet exodus, from state's farm fields"- Seattle Post Intelligencer, October 12, 2001
"Illegal Immigrants live life in the shadows"- Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 5, 2001
"Despite neighborhood opposition, Belltown migrant workers may soon get housing"- Real Change, June 2001
"Job agency's dream stuck in hard reality"- The Seattle Times, June 25, 2001
"The CASA Latina Controversy: A Debate"- Belltown Paper, June 2001
"Belltown's Changing Neighbors"- Metropolitan Living, November 2000
"Letters, Sick to my stomach & Selfish in Seattle"- Seattle Weekly, October 19, 2000
"Cornered in Belltown, Latino day laborers fight for their turf. Day Labor Lotto"- Seattle Weekly, October 12, 2000
"CASA Latina finds new home for ESL classes"- The Millionare Club Charity, September 2000
"Tips on Hiring a Day Laborer"- Belltown Dispatch, September 2000
"CASA Latina and Business Association Clash"- Housing Washington Newsletter, August 2000
"Guns for hire- Armas de Trabajo"- Latino Northwest, April-May 2000
"CASA Latina" - The Spectator, May 11, 2000
"Belltown's volatile rich-poor mix" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, March 28, 2000
"Center for workers under budget's gun" - Seattle Times, Nov. 11, 1999
"Soul and Faith: Work wanted. Can CASA Latina deliver?"- Real Change, July 1999
"New resource center could end curbside tradition in Belltown" - Seattle Post-Intelligencer, July 16, 1999
"Immigrant groups learn to solicit grants to meet needs" - Seattle Times, April 13, 1999
"The Play's the Thing! Casa Latina Takes Theater to the Street" - Real Change
"Acting out a solution"- Seattle Times, March 15, 1998
