text:  It's here and now. And on this day, when we celebrate liberty, we have this story of hard-won freedom. In 2006, Sarkat Soni was a labor organizer working in New Orleans when he received a phone call from a stranger in Mississippi desperate for help. He was an Indian migrant worker who had been lured to the U.S. by a company called Signal International to repair oil rigs damaged by Hurricane Katrina.