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La Semana Nacional es llevada a cabo por estudiantes y miembros de la comunidad en distintas ciudades universitarias y nuestras comunidades, para hacer conciencia de los problemas de los campesinos.
Nadeen Bir
Student Action with Farmworkers
Phone: (919) 660-3652
Fax: (919) 681-7600
Patrocinadores y Campañas:
The Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) has been an advocate for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States since 1971. AFOP’s mission is to improve the quality of life for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families by providing advocacy for the member organizations that serve them. AFOP and its member organizations serve farmworkers in 49 states and Puerto Rico.
AFOP’s Children in the Fields project strives to improve the quality of life of migrant and seasonal farmworker children by advocating for enhanced educational opportunities and the elimination of discriminatory federal child labor laws in agriculture.
The Farmworkers Support Committee-CATA is a migrant farmworker organization that is governed by and comprised of farmworkers who are actively engaged in the struggle for better working and living conditions. For the past 30 years, CATA's mission has been to empower and educate farmworkers through leadership development and capacity building so that they are able to make informed decisions regarding the best course of action for their interests. Farmworkers become equipped with the skills and training needed to effectively work towards social, economic, and environmental justice.
The mission of Centro Campesino is to improve the lives of members of the Latino and migrant community in southern Minnesota through community organizing, education and advocacy.
Duke Students for Humane Borders is a student-led activist group that works to raise awareness on Duke’s campus and in the surrounding Durham community about the humanitarian and human rights issues involving immigration.
The long-standing mission of the Farmworker Association of Florida is to build power among farmworker and rural low-income communities to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that impact their lives.
The Farmworker Association’s guiding vision is a social environment where farmworkers’ contribution, dignity, and worth are acknowledged, appreciated, and respected through economic, social, and environmental justice. This vision includes farmworkers being treated as equals, and not exploited and discriminated against based on race, ethnicity, immigrant status, or socioeconomic status.
Farmworker Justice uses litigation, administrative and legislative advocacy, training and technical assistance, coalition-building, public education and support for union organizing to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.
Farmworker Justice is a proud sponsor of Farmworker Awareness Week, working with organizations around the country to bring timely and accurate information to the public on a variety of farmworkers' issues.
Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc. (FLSNY) is a not-for-profit corporation providing free legal services and legal education to New York's agricultural workers. FLSNY's lawyers and paralegals provide a wide range of legal advocacy on behalf of farm workers. FLSNY seeks to assure that agricultural employers and housing providers in New York and nationwide comply with the law, that government entities respect farm workers' civil rights, and that the public is educated about farm worker rights under existing laws and the exclusions from existing labor laws that protect other types of workers.
http://www.farmworkerlegalservices.com/
Together with farm workers and their families, the Farm Worker Pesticide Project works to reduce and eliminate their exposures to pesticides. To that end, FWPP will:
1. Provide resources and information to farm workers and their advocates about pesticides;
2. Unite diverse groups and individuals behind a joint strategy to address the far worker pesticide problem; and
3. Participate in that strategy as an advocate, organizer, educator, and researcher.
The organization will leverage resources, including but not limited to financial, scientific, legal, educational and other resources, to help the farm worker community on pesticide issues and on other matters of social justice.
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), is both a social movement and a labor union. Our immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but we are also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, our local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice.
The FLOC vision emphasizes human rights as the standard and self-determination as the process for achieving these rights. We struggle for justice for those who have been marginalized and exploited for the benefit of others and we work to change the structures of society to enable workers to have a direct voice in their own conditions.
Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer run political non-profit collective comprised of activists from diverse walks of life (including labour activists, educators, researchers, students and youth of colour) based in Toronto, Ontario, and now in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles.
Mi Gente was founded in 1992 as the central Latino/a organization at Duke University. Mi Gente's mission is to provide a sense of community among Latinos/as at Duke as well as to promote awareness and sponsor activities about Latino/a cultural, political, educational, and social issues. It is a forum for individuals to explore the diverse histories, identities, and traditions that make up the Latino/a world.
We strive to serve as a voice and to raise awareness on campus for Latino/a and other multicultural concerns. One of Mi Gente's priorities is to reach out to first year students and provide them with a home and a familia as they make their way through Duke. Mi Gente also strives to develop relations with the Durham Latino/a population through activities such as community service and outreach programs.
The North Carolina Council of Churches is a statewide ecumenical organization promoting Christian unity and working towards a more just society. The Council enables denominations, congregations, and people of faith to individually and collectively impact our state on issues such as economic justice and development, human well-being, equality, compassion and peace, following the example and mission of Jesus Christ.
The National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challenge is a service learning initiative celebrating Mr. Chavez’s Legacy by promoting Health Education, Health Careers, Civic Engagement and Saving Lives! Student Organizers have the opportunity to coordinate the campaign on their college/university campus having a direct and lasting impact on their local Hispanic/Latino community while representing their school in a national competition Join our campaign and save a life today! Si Se Puede!
National Farm Worker Ministry is a faith-based organization which supports farm workers as they organize for empowerment, justice, and equality.
YAYA is the Youth and Young Adult Network of the National Farm Worker Ministry, an interfaith organization that supports farm workers as they organize for empowerment, justice, and equality. Our members work to change the oppressive social, political and economic conditions of farm workers through a diverse array of activities
Great Web Links: YAYA's facebook page | YAYA's FAW page
“Planting the Future of Agriculture in North Carolina”
Our mission is to create strategies and initiate collaborative actions that will promote justice and equality by increasing access to opportunities for the farm working community.
NC Focus on Increasing Education, Leadership and Dignity (NC FIELD) works to educate, organize community leaders and promote justice in North Carolina’s agricultural worker communities by ending child labor, delivering educational programming, particularly to unaccompanied youth, and promoting food security, housing solutions and other opportunities that enhance quality of life.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PAN North America, or PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable society.
Student/Farmworker Alliance (SFA) is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We are currently leading a campaign alongside farmworkers calling on some of the largest supermarket chains in the country -- including Kroger, Publix, Trader Joe's and Stop & Shop -- to do their part to end Florida's "Harvest of Shame" once and for all.
Student Labor Action Project
Calling the 10th annual National Student Labor Week of Action, 3/27-4/4. To support organizing activities on your campus we have lots of cool materials including posters, an organizing manual, stickers, whistles, and other fun stuff. Please sign up to be involved in the 10th National Student Labor Week of Action today! SIGN UP to be part of the movement | Download an ORGANIZING KIT FLYER | FIND AN ACTION near you!
The Syntiro-Maine High School Equivalency Project's goal is to significantly increase the number of migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their immediate families who complete a Maine high school equivalency or diploma program and enter postsecondary education, training programs, upgraded employment, or the military. We are looking for help to recruit eligible participants in Maine who are 17 and older and who have worked seasonally in the agricultural sector for at least 75 days during the last 24 months. For more information visit our website at www.mainehep.org.
Toxic pesticides are over-used in North Carolina and around the world, polluting our food, water and our bodies. Toxic Free NC fights pesticide pollution in North Carolina by advocating for common-sense alternatives that protect our health and environment. We are an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization -- North Carolina’s only organization working to put people before pesticides.
Through teaching, research, and community partnerships, the mission of the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota is to promote critical understanding of the histories, politics, and cultures of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os of the United States. We are proud to be a sponsor of National Farmworker Awareness Week 2011. The Chicano Studies class, Migrant Farmworkers in the US: Family, Work and Advocacy, taught every spring semester, will play a significant role in this initiative.
United Farm Workers is currently concentrating on immigration reform, protecting farm workers from dying of becoming ill from extreme heat and the Employee Free Choice Act for Farm Workers--which is Calif. legislation which will expand farm workers right to organize. The UFW is out there in the fields every day continuing Cesar Chavez' legacy to improve the lives of farm workers. You can find out more about our efforts at our multilingual website. We are also supporting grassroots efforts for a national Cesar Chavez holiday and have posted an online petition at our Cesar Chavez resource page located at www.ufw.org/cesarchavez.
Witness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Our mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean. Join the Witness for Peace Pilgrimage on Good Friday, April 2nd 2010 at noon to walk the stations of the cross at the state capital in Raleigh, NC. (Click here for Spanish flyer.)
Speak out ! Take Action in your community this spring and add your voice to the movement for farmworker justice.
SAF * 1317 W Pettigrew Street * Durham, NC 27705 * Phone (919)660-3652
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN)
Student Labor Action Project
