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	www.sweatshopwatch.org Sweatshop Watch is a coalition of labor, community, civil rights, immigrant rights, women's, religious & student organizations, and individuals committed to eliminating sweatshop conditions in the global garment industry. We believe that workers should be earning a living wage in a safe and decent working environment, and that those who benefit the most from the exploitation of sweatshop workers must be held accountable.

	http://www.nilc.org/ciwc The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) works to advance the human and civil rights of immigrants and refugees and to foster and environment of positive human relations in Los Angeles. It was founded in late 1986 in response to the implementation of the Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA). CHIRLA has moved far beyond that to become the only broad-based, multiethnic umbrella immigrant advocacy organization in Los Angeles.

	http://www.busridersunion.org The Bus Riders, with 3,000 dues paying members and 50,000 self-identified supporters on the buses, is one of the largest mass transit, anti-racist grassroots organizations in the U.S. We are fighting for a first-class, clean-fuel, bus-centered public transportation system in Los Angeles. BRU membership and leadership consist of a large majority of people of color and are over 50 percent women.

	http://www.elrescate.org Founded in 1981 by members of the Santana Chirino Amaya Refugee committee (SCARC) and the Southern California Ecumenical Council, El Rescate was the first agency in the US to respond with free legal and social services to the mass influx of refugees fleeing the war in El Salvador.During the 1980s El Rescate opened the Clinica Monseor Romero, providing free medical care to the refugee community (1983) and El Refugio (1987) which served as a transitional housing shelter for newly arrived refugees.

	http://www.clinicaromero.com Clinica Monseñor Romero is a 501 (c )( 3 ) non-profit, community-based clinic that provides quality and affordable health care and health education to the under served communities of greater Los Angeles. Members of the Salvadoran community and supporters founded Clinica in 1983. Clinica serves uninsured multi-ethnic and multi-racial populations. Clinica Romero is a State-licensed, FQHC-Federally Qualified Healthcare Center that accepts MediCal and DentiCal.