Damayan Cleaning Cooperative: Labor Trafficking Survivors Open Co-Op

In this episode of The Laura Flanders Show, the Damayan (which means “to help each other”) Cleaning Cooperative is introduced, an initiative in the United States by female survivors of labor trafficking from the Philippines: women who were sent to the U.S. to work in housekeeping or babysitting without earning a salary and having no breaks. The cooperative was launched in September 2015, and the female owners are part of the Damayan Migrant Workers Association, an organization that supports Filipino women who are migrant workers. Photo credit: The Laura Flanders Show