America ReFramed
The Hand That Feeds | Promo
At a popular bakery café in Manhattan, patrons get served with a smile 24 hours a day. Behind the scenes, some of the undocumented immigrant workers earn far below the minimum wage. Filmed at the onset of the service economy wage wars, THE HAND THAT FEEDS tells the story of the power struggle that turned a single city block into a battlefield.
TRANSCRIPT
(man speaking Spanish)
(soft dramatic music)
(man speaking Spanish)
(man speaking Spanish)
- [Woman] It can't be stressed enough how critical it is
to organize low-wage industries.
The reality of the U.S. economy is
that this is the future of our economy.
(man speaking Spanish)
(man speaking Spanish)
(light dramatic music)
(man speaking Spanish)
(police sirens blaring)
- [Woman] He told me that he had
Occupy Wall Street helping him out,
and I'm afraid that he might get deported.
(light dramatic music)
(police sirens blaring) (indistinct radio chatter)
(man speaking Spanish)
(man speaking Spanish)
(suspenseful piano music)
- Who's ready?
(group cheering)
Come on, come on.
(man speaking Spanish) (group speaking Spanish)
- [Striker] We're supposed to be invisible.
The food's supposed to arrive
but you're not supposed to see that.
- We all believe that we've been disrespected,
we've been belittled,
they feel like we are not better than $7.25
and we definitely are.
- We need to stand behind each other,
the middle class is evaporating.
- Twenty-four hour ticket. Twenty-four hour ticket.
(police sirens blaring)
(man speaking Spanish) (suspenseful piano music)
