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How Janitors Banded Together to Fight Rape on the Night Shift

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Women janitors ended a hunger strike outside the state capitol this week, and cheered as they learned Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill to protect janitors like them from sexual violence and abuse on the job. Host Sasha Khokha reflects on the 18 months she spent interviewing immigrant women janitors, and the impact her team's reporting had on changing California law.

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