CALL FOR HELP for Florida Farm Workers Affected by Flooding
Due to flooding during the Memorial Day week, farm workers in our east coast area of Florida have been left without work. This is creating a hardship ... Read More »
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Call for Help for Florida Farm Workers Affected by Flooding
Farm workers on the east coast of central Florida have been hard hit because of the rains over the Memorial Day weekend and the loss of work resulting... Read More »
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A Contemplative Day: Farmworker Voices
Copy and pass around to group. Ask for volunteers to take the part of Workers 1, 2, 3 and 4. Faciltator can read the part of “Reader.” Worker 1:... Read More »
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A Contemplative Day: Farm Worker Statistics
Pass around to participants so that each person reads one fact aloud. Farmworkers' Reality 1. A study conducted in a five-county area in central Nor... Read More »
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A Contemplative Day: Cesar Chavez’s Fasts for Righteousnes
This should be read before the walking meditation, and can be read by being passed from one participant to the next. Facilitator can choose to use 1-2... Read More »
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A Contemplative Day: Farmworker Communion
Pass around for each participant to read one paragraph each before the meal. Communal Act Many generations after that first supper, there was anothe... Read More »
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A Contemplative Day: Buddhist Meal Prayers
Make copies and pass out to group to read aloud together before meal. * Over the full serving bowls of food, say: In this food I see clearly the pre... Read More »
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Contemplative Day Reflecting on Food & Labor
(Modeled on Peace Hill Gathering 9/9/05 facilitated by Melinda Wiggins, Student Action with Farmworkers & Lori Fernald Khamala, National Farm Work... Read More »
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Farm Worker Worship Service
Compiled by the National Farm Worker Ministry OPENING PRAYER Leader: Let us begin by recalling the words of Cesar Chavez: "Every time we sit at a tab... Read More »
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Quotes and Readings
Voices of Farmworkers "We were all shaking because it was so hot, almost dehydrated. You know what I did? I left them.... It was less than an... Read More »
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