Framework for "Alabanza: In Praise of Local 100"

"for the 43 members of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Local 100, working at the Windows on the World restaurant, who lost their lives in the attack on the World Trade Center"

The above is Espada's commentary over his work, and as one can see, Espada is basically paying homage to those worker's that lost their lives, by writing this piece, in addition to shedding light on the part of the 9/11 attacks that was not covered by the news media, because the sacrafices of the police and firefighters overshadowed these restaurant workers. Espada, also uses this piece, to advocate for the acknowledgment of latin immigrants not only as low-paid service workers, but as human beings that deserve to be treated as equals with dignity.