Hunger Strikers Win Historic Relief Fund for Undocumented New York Workers

Camera + Editor // 3m53s // 2021

HUNGER STRIKERS WIN HISTORIC RELIEF FUND FOR UNDOCUMENTED NEW YORK WORKERS — WITH STRINGS ATTACHED

ANA PATRICIA, a 46-year-old woman originally from Mexico, had been working for years as a bathroom attendant at a restaurant in Manhattan’s Little Italy when, last March, Covid-19 cases began to soar and hospitals filled up with the dying and the dead. The owner told the staff that they were going to be taking two weeks off. The restaurant never reopened. Though she has been able to rely on a food pantry and has set up her own makeshift business selling Mexican trinkets, she hasn’t found steady work in over a year. During that time, she’s struggled to feed her 5-year-old son and has gone months without being able to pay rent.

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Read the article by John Washington. My piece ran as a companion to his article. https://theintercept.com/2021/04/07/new-york-undocumented-excluded-workers-relief-fund-covid/

Shot and edited by me for the Intercept