Farmworker Awareness Week is a Growing Nationwide Event - Organize an Activity in Your Area
March 29 through April 4th has been designated as national Farmworker Awareness Week. Groups around the country are organizing events, actions, programs, and activities on campuses, in churches, in their communities, and in front of businesses to call for changes in the way our country and the agricultural industry treat farmworkers. The purpose of this week of action is to bring attention to the issues and injustices affecting our country's hard working agricultural laborers. Advocates, religious leaders, student organizations, labor activists, consumer groups and environmental health professionals will unite during this week to recognize the many contributions of agricultural workers to our economy and to our society.
For the fourth year in a row, the Farmworker Association of Florida is one of the sponsoring organizations of Farmworker Awareness Week. Along with sixteen other sponsoring organizations that are planning rallies, marches, petition drives, film screenings and other events throughout the week, FWAF is working with student groups in high schools and colleges in Florida in raising awareness about the realities of farmworkers. Many of these actions are scheduled to coincide with the March 31st birthday of the late Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and historic figure in the farmworker movement. People in 28 states are calling for the federal government to create a national holiday in honor of the iconic leader Chavez and of farmworkers. The purpose of the week is to inform the public and highlight ongoing campaigns for the improvement of farmworkers' living and working conditions.
From a blood drive in honor of Cesar Chavez at the University of South Florida; to film showings by students at Rollins, USF and area high schools; to drives for long-sleeve shirts to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure, groups are getting interested, getting involved, and taking action in Florida. If you are interested in organizing something at your school, church, club, or in your community, contact Jeannie at FWAF at 407-886-5151 or email at farmworkerassoc@aol.com.
Help to raise awareness that WE ARE ALL CONNECTED TO FARMWORKERS everyday. Anyone who eats (and, who doesn't?) has some connection to farmworkers, because WE ALL CONSUME FOOD. Most of that food was planted and harvested by farmworkers, yet they remain largely invisible to the public at large and continue to live and work in unacceptable conditions. Farm work is the third most dangerous job in the U.S., yet the people who plant and harvest our fruits and vegetables lack many of the basic worker protections that most of us take for granted. Things like overtime, unemployment insurance, even protection when joining a union are not guaranteed under federal law.
Each year, Farmworker Awareness Week is called by Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) in collaboration with Student Labor Action Project’s Student Labor Week of Action. Please join us in raising awareness about the struggles of America's most hardworking people. For more information about events in your area, visit www.farmworkerawareness.org.
Yes, we can! Si se puede!
For the fourth year in a row, the Farmworker Association of Florida is one of the sponsoring organizations of Farmworker Awareness Week. Along with sixteen other sponsoring organizations that are planning rallies, marches, petition drives, film screenings and other events throughout the week, FWAF is working with student groups in high schools and colleges in Florida in raising awareness about the realities of farmworkers. Many of these actions are scheduled to coincide with the March 31st birthday of the late Cesar Chavez, co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America and historic figure in the farmworker movement. People in 28 states are calling for the federal government to create a national holiday in honor of the iconic leader Chavez and of farmworkers. The purpose of the week is to inform the public and highlight ongoing campaigns for the improvement of farmworkers' living and working conditions.
From a blood drive in honor of Cesar Chavez at the University of South Florida; to film showings by students at Rollins, USF and area high schools; to drives for long-sleeve shirts to protect farmworkers from pesticide exposure, groups are getting interested, getting involved, and taking action in Florida. If you are interested in organizing something at your school, church, club, or in your community, contact Jeannie at FWAF at 407-886-5151 or email at farmworkerassoc@aol.com.
Help to raise awareness that WE ARE ALL CONNECTED TO FARMWORKERS everyday. Anyone who eats (and, who doesn't?) has some connection to farmworkers, because WE ALL CONSUME FOOD. Most of that food was planted and harvested by farmworkers, yet they remain largely invisible to the public at large and continue to live and work in unacceptable conditions. Farm work is the third most dangerous job in the U.S., yet the people who plant and harvest our fruits and vegetables lack many of the basic worker protections that most of us take for granted. Things like overtime, unemployment insurance, even protection when joining a union are not guaranteed under federal law.
Each year, Farmworker Awareness Week is called by Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) in collaboration with Student Labor Action Project’s Student Labor Week of Action. Please join us in raising awareness about the struggles of America's most hardworking people. For more information about events in your area, visit www.farmworkerawareness.org.
Yes, we can! Si se puede!
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