YAYA hosts Fight for Water film screening
On Thursday, October 2, 2014, Orlando YAYA will be hosting a movie screening for "The Fight For Water: A Farm Worker Struggle" In 2009, the Californ... Read More »
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Solidarity with Farm workers – Labor Day
On Sunday, August 30th, Heather and I traveled to the greater Tampa area to take part in some farm worker solidarity. Since it was Labor Day weekend, ... Read More »
Tags: CIW, FLOC, Labor Day, NFWM, Pinellas Support Committee, Solidarity
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Respect, Recognition, Raise! Summer with FLOC
Respect, recognition, raise; those are the words I internalized all summer as part of the Union Summer Program in North Carolina. At first they seeme... Read More »
Tags: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina
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Central Florida Labor Day Picnic
Finding a community where one’s cause becomes a cog in the machine of positive social change is extremely important for progress we can be proud of.... Read More »
Tags: Labor Day, Solidarity
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YAYA Yard Sale Fundraiser!
On Saturday, August 30, 2014, Orlando YAYA-NFWM held a yard sale fundraiser at my house to raise money for the work we do in support of farm workers a... Read More »
Tags: Florida, Fundraising, Solidarity
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Pa' Delante: My Experience with FLOC in the Fields of NC
This summer, a group of 15 interns and myself had the opportunity to work on the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's Respect, Recognition, and Raise cam... Read More »
Tags: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina
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2014 Summer Board Meeting and Benefit Dinner
The weekend of August 15-16, 2014, National Farm Worker Ministry staff, board members and guests gathered at Pullen Memorial Baptist Church in Raleig... Read More »
Tags: FLOC, NFWM Board, North Carolina, Youth and Young Adults
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Blog: Ministers-in-Training and Farm Worker Justice
In recent years, the leadership of National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM) saw fit to respond to the need of many 40+ year old nonprofit ministries in th... Read More »
Tags: Fair Food, NFWM, NFWM Board, Youth and Young Adults
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NFWM's 2014 Summer Board Meeting
From August 14th-17th, I was able to attend the National Farm Worker Ministry’s (NFWM) board meeting in Raleigh, North Carolina. Every six months, N... Read More »
Tags: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina
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Tell EPA Safer Fields & Safer Families Matter
A Message from the Pesticide Action Network: Speak up for farmworkers Let’s make sure EPA implements better rules to protect farmworkers in the... Read More »
Tags: EPA, PAN, Pesticides
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