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New Podcast Episode!

In Episode 4, Season 2 of the Labor Link podcast, Judy Gearhart speaks to Hariyanto Suwarno of the Indonesian Migrant Workers’ Union, known as SBMI for its acronym in Bahasa, and Charli Fritzner of Greenpeace USA.

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seeking remedy
inside Thailand. Their goal is worker organizing, but they are starting with
the most basic community organizing, encouraging migrants to support
each other in seeking basic services – to collect back wages, access
medical care, or enroll their children in school.

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organizer networks on both sides of the Thai-Cambodian
border.
This is challenging work in a context where refugees who are outspoken
critics of the Cambodian government have faced deportation from Thailand
and arrest upon being returned to Cambodia. The UN High Commissioner

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CENTRAL’s vision – to build migrant worker networks so they can demand
their rights and support each other – is ambitious and multi-pronged. They
provide safe migration training before migrants leave, support the families
left behind in Cambodia, and provide legal aid to migrants

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the country, and to build support networks
among migrants inside Thailand. CENTRAL receives support from the
International Labour Organization’s Ship to Shore Program to provide safe
migration training to fishers and other migrants. They are building on that to
strengthen

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burden with high, accumulating interest rates.
CENTRAL’s approach to working with migrant fishers connects direct
services and training on safe migration with organizing and community-
based network building. They are working inside Cambodia to prepare
migrants before they leave

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the complex challenges migrant fishers face, many of them
not getting paid for a year or more, some not at all. He explains the debt
burdens that force many Cambodians to migrate, noting that money paid to
recruiters is just one more loan on top of an already unmanageable debt

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CENTRAL – the Center for
the Alliance of Labor and Human Rights in Cambodia. Hoya is a former
Buddhist monk who studied in Thailand. He now taps many of the networks
from his time there to build CENTRAL’s outreach and support to
Cambodian migrants inside Thailand.
Hoya describes

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children of
Cambodian migrant workers in Thailand having access to school.… They
have a right to education.”
-Dy TheHoya, Labor Link Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3
During this episode we speak with Dy TheHoya, or Hoya, the Head of the
Anti-Human Trafficking and Migration Unit for

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“Our dream. We would like to see …very independent, community-based
organizations run by migrant worker themselves. So they understand their
rights. They protect their rights. And they stand up together for their
rights… And another thing that we would like to see… is all the

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

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Labor Link Podcast, Season 2, Episode 3
Organizing Migrant Fishers: From Cambodia to Thailand

An interview with Dy TheHoya from the Center for Alliance of Labor and Human Rights (CENTRAL) in Cambodia

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New episode of @LaborLinkPod: we hear from Thai and Cambodian fishers & fisher organizers Mario, Nguyen and Lin, talking to @JudyGearhart about working and organizing in the seafood industry

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@AcctResearchCtr @LaborLinkPod @JudyGearhart New interviews with migrant fishers & organizers in Thailand - re the slow steady work of uniting fishers. Thanks to @ITFglobalunion & others supporting migrant fisher organizing. @GLJhub @Oxfam @HumanityUnited @AmeSagiv @Freedom_Fund @SolidarityCntr @RuwanSubasinghe

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Episode 2 of The Labor Link Podcast Season 2 is out now! @JudyGearhart @realJulesTaylor @AcctResearchCtr

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We're proud to welcome the @LaborLinkPod #podcast to the Labor Radio Podcast Network!

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If you like what we do @WorkingPod then go check out @LaborLinkPod, which @realJulesTaylor is also producing! ❤️✊🏽

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This second podcast series is produced by Jules Taylor (@realjulestaylor) with original music by Jules. Recording support was provided by the Umbria Institute. For other great podcasts on workers’ rights, go to https://t.co/WhWLUryK3p

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🚨NEW EPISODE🚨

S2E1 - Jon Hartough, Southeast Asia Regional Coordinator of the International Transport Workers' Federation (ITF)

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This podcast is a project of the Accountability Research Center at American University, a team committed to learning from and with locally- and nationally-based initiatives around the world about their strategies to secure government and corporate accountability.