Workers' Center of CNY

05/21/2026

🚨ACTION ALERT🚨

Friends & allies. Please join us next Tuesday, May 26th at 9:30AM at the Federal Building (100 State St) in Rochester for a rally, press conference and to PACK THE COURT for Dolores!!

Dolores is a farmworker, grandmother and leader who has been detained by ICE since April 22nd. On May 26th, the Court will hear evidence from Dolores’ lawyers to demonstrate that she was unlawfully detained and non-citizens like her cannot be ripped away from us without notice or opportunity to respond.

🕘 WHEN: TUESDAY, MAY 26TH: 9:00AM GATHER➡️9:30AM PRESS CONFERENCE➡️11:00AM HEARING

📍WHERE: UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE WESTERN DISTRICT OF NY, FEDERAL BUILDING, 100 STATE STREET, ROCHESTER, NY 14614

PLEASE BE AWARE: We want to pack the court and, not all of us will be able to enter the courtroom due to capacity limitations, but we want to ensure that friends and family of Dolores are able to attend the hearing. We ask that participants support our efforts to help reach these goals. We hope that enough people will attend to show solidarity and support and if the courtroom reaches capacity, a groundswell of supporters outside will have just as powerful an impact.

05/20/2026

Yesterday, our Immigrant Resource Liaison Genesis, shared powerful testimony at Farmworker Advocacy Day in Albany alongside our allies and more.

Farmworkers are the backbone of our state. They deserve dignity and respect.

We need the New York for All Act, the TEMP Act, the Dignity Not Detention Act and the Family Court Guardianship Act NOW!!

05/19/2026

📣 Syracuse
📅 Fecha: 19 de mayo 2026 | Date: 5/19/26
📍 Lugar/Location: Ash St & N. State St. 13208
🕛 Hora/Time: 7:20am
📣 Three to four agents detained an individual in the black van. We are trying to identify the indivudual they stopped. Please contact us if you recognize the vehicle, you need help finding someone taken, or have any further info.
📣 Hoy, 3 o 4 agentes en un van blanca detuvieron a una persona conduciendo un van negro. Estamos tratando de identificar a la persona que detuvieron. Por favor comuníquese con nosotros si reconoce los vehículos, si necesita ayuda para encontrar a alguien detenido o si tiene mas información.

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05/14/2026

Read Our Weekly Newsletter: HOW LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT COLLUDES WITH IMMIGRATION AGENTS IN NY https://mailchi.mp/16133cf93b40/local-cops-local-collusion

05/08/2026

Read Our Weekly Newsletter: DEFEND IMMIGRANT MOMS ON MOTHER'S DAY

As Mother’s Day approaches, we urge you to stand with immigrant mom’s who are the backbone of their families, communities, and our movement.

05/02/2026

✊ aquí te esperamos, Dolores ❤️

Dolores Bustamante, a grandmother and farm worker from Wayne County, has been ordered to be returned to Western New York to appear in federal court after being detained by ICE.

05/01/2026

Today, on International Workers’ Day, we celebrate the workers who sacrifice for a better life.

We honor the contributions of the labor movement, and recommit ourselves to the struggle for a better world.

¡Sí, se puede!

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Hoy en el Día Internacional De Los Trabajadores, celebramos a los trabajadores que sacrifican por una vida mejor.

Honramos las contribuciones del movimiento obrero y reafirmas nuestro compromiso con la lucha por un mundo mejor.

¡Sí, se puede!

04/30/2026

Read our weekly newsletter: FIGHT FOR WORKERS ON MAY DAY - https://mailchi.mp/9db28761a144/fight-for-workers-on-may-day

04/27/2026

While farmworkers are under attack, our elected representatives are preparing to vote on a that does not take care of farmworkers, small farmers or sustainable farms. Join National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition Alianza Nacional De Campesinas The National Young Farmers Coalition and over 300 organizations representing farmworkers, BIPOC farmers, organic and small producers in calling for a just Farm Bill🐮🍎✊!

04/23/2026

Members, allies and friends,

As many of you have heard by now, a beloved Board Member of WCCNY, advocate for women’s and farmworker’s rights and community organizer Dolores Bustamante was detained yesterday at her ICE check-in.

We have since learned that she was transferred to a jail in Ohio and subsequently to a detention facility in Louisiana. Further separating her from her family and the community that is fighting for her release, despite a judge’s order to keep her in NY.

There are several steps you can take RIGHT NOW to help bring her home!

➡️Donate to her legal defense fund via the GoFundMe link in our bio

📲 Call Governor Hochul’s office at (518) 474-8390 and Senator Gillibrand’s offices, Buffalo (716) 854-9725, Albany (518) 854-9725, Washington (202) 224-4451. DEMAND they do everything in their power to secure her release! Tell them that a habeas petition was filed on her behalf yesterday, that a judge has ordered her not to be removed from the state or deported. As such, ICE is in violation of a judicial order!!

Follow for more updates and ways to take action.