CLEAN EATING DIETS

Doméstica: Immigrant Workers Cleaning and Caring in the Shadows of Affluence

As American women have entered the labor force in greater numbers, the traditional work of wives and mothers--cleaning houses and caring for children--has gradually moved into the global marketplace. Paid domestic work has largely become the domain of disenfranchised immigrant women of color. Unlike the working poor who toil in factories and fields, these women see, touch, and breathe the material and emotional world of their employers' homes. They scrub grout, coax reluctant children to eat their vegetables, launder and fold clothes, dust, vacuum, and witness intimate family dynamics. In this enlightening and timely work, Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo highlights the voices, experiences, and views of Mexican and Central American women who care for other people's children and homes, as well as the outlooks of the women who employ them in Los Angeles.
All royalties from this book will be donated to the Domestic Workers' Association, a division of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).

Northern Flicker (Yellow-Shafted Flicker)

Colaptes auratus

Northern flicker does periodic house maintenance in palm tree home. This and several related photos were just released to me by a stock agency that had the rights for two years. Now I can put them on Flickr. Hope you enjoy.

Photo taken in my neighbor's yard. The dead palm tree in the front yard has served as home to parrots, flickers and other woodpeckers and screech owls. The neighbors had left the dead tree standing in order to provide habitat for these little creatures.
There was another hole almost directly across from this one. I once saw a parrot's head sticking out of one side and a squirrel's rear quarters on the opposite side. Unfortunately, I didn't have time to get a time to get my camera or I could have posted a photo of a parrel or a squarrot.

Panel 1 witnesses listen to a question from the Chairman during the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure's oversight hearing on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on September 29, 2010. They are, from left to right, construction worker Gregory Mobley of Columbus, Indiana, electrician Dave Rock, Alfred H. Foxx of the Baltimore Department of Public Works, Doran Barnes, Executive Director of Foothill Transit, Joyce Eleanor, CEO of Community Transit, Jeff Theerman, Executive Director of the Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District (representing the National Association of Clean Water Agencies), and Kelly Johnson, Airport Director, Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport Authority (representing the American Association of Airport Executives).

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