Farmworker Awareness Week is a national week of action for students and community members to raise awareness about farmworker issues on our campuses and in our communities.

Nadeen Bir
Student Action with Farmworkers
Phone: (919) 660-3652
Fax: (919) 681-7600

Brown Bag Lunch Series: Local Migrant and Immigrant Perspectives
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Student Union Multi-Purpose Room
Who: APPLES Service Learning Program
Time: 12pm-1pm

Farmworker Awareness Presentation
Where: Laurenburg UMC
Who: Alexandria Jones, National Farm Worker Ministry
Time: TBA

Farmworker Living Conditions Event
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Quad
Who: Alianza
Time: 10am-2pm

Film Screening: Mississippi Chicken
Where: UNC Chapel Hill
Who: FLO and Farmworker Advocacy Network
Time: TBA

Farmworker Advocacy Network Health Research Training
Where: NC Justice Center
Who: Farmworker Advocacy Network and Wake Forest University School of Medicine
Time: 10am-1pm

Chicken Packing Plant Simulation + Chavez Birthday Party!
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Quad
Who: FLO Food and Alianza
Time: 10am-2pm

Power, People, Poultry: Local Chicken Dinner + Panel
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Manning Auditorium
Who: FLO Food and Alianza
Time: 5:30pm

Rally in support of Access to Higher Education
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Pit
Who: Coalition for College Access
Time: 12pm-12:30pm

Bandana Project: Confronting Sexual Violence Against Farmworker Women (Training)
Where: TBA
Who: NC Coalition Against Sexual Assault (NCCASA), the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), and Legal Aid of NC Farmworker Unit (LANC)
Time: 1pm-5pm

Farmworker Awareness Presentation
Where: NC State Wesley Campus Ministry
Who: Alexandria Jones, National Farm Worker Ministry
Time: TBA

Farmworkers and Globalization Presentation
Where: NC State University
Who: Tony Macias, Student Action with Farmworkers
Time: 4-6pm

Film Screening: Children in the Fields
Where: Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University
Who: Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
Time: 6:30-9pm

Film Screening: Crossing Arizona
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill
Who: Alianza & Student Action with Farmworkers
Time: 7pm

Pesticide Education Event
Where: UNC-Chapel Hill Quad
Who: Alianza
Time: 10am-2pm

National Pesticide Forum: Bridge to an Organic Future
Where: Century Center, Carrboro
Who: Beyond Pesticides and Toxic Free NC
Time: 1-11pm

National Pesticide Forum: Bridge to an Organic Future
Where: Century Center, Carrboro
Who: Beyond Pesticides and Toxic Free NC
Time: 8am-7:30pm

National Pesticide Forum Keynote: Jim Hightower
Where: Community Church of Chapel Hill
Who: Beyond Pesticides and Toxic Free NC
Time: 7:30-8:30pm

Student Farm Labor Camp Delegation
Where: TBA
Who: Alianza
Time: TBA

SAF Book Club: Illegal People
Where: The Regulator Bookshop, Durham
Who: Student Action with Farmworkers
Time: 7-9pm

Speak out ! Take Action in your community this spring and add your voice to the movement for farmworker justice.