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They shall not plant and another eat;
- Isaiah 65:21


When we pray and act with them, we are changed also.
- Gen Cassani, SSND
NFWM Board


FARM WORKER RESOURCES

(See AlsoMember Organizations and Farm Worker Organizations)

LINKS


AFL-CIO
Farmworker Justice Fund
Global Exchange on Farmworkers
Labor Net

National Center for Farmworker Health
Sarasota-Manatee Farmworker Supporters
Student Action With Farmworkers


BOOKS


Autobiography of La Causa. Jacques E. Levy. W.W. Norton & Co. 1975.

Conquering Goliath: Cesar Chavez at the Beginning. Fred Ross. El Taller Grafico Press. 1989.

With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today. Daniel Rothenberg. University of California Press. 1998.

The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor and Advocacy. Edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins. University of Texas Press, 2002.

California's Broken Promises: The Laws on the Books are Not the Laws in the Fields. Stories and photos of California Farm Workers. Published by the UFW, 2007. Local news coverage of launch of book.

Florida's Farmworkers in the 21st Century. Nano Riley & Davida Johns. University Press of Florida. 2003.

Immokalee's Fields of Hope. Carlene A. Thissen. iUniverse Press. 2003.

Photographing Farmworkers in California. Richard Steven Street. Stanford University Press. 2004.

The Radical Peasant. Gerald F. Cox. Trafford Publishing. 2006.
Biography of Fr. Charles Philipps, diocese of San Francisco, who mentored several young priests who were early and life-long activists in the farm worker movement, and active with the UFW.

For children:
Cesar Chavez. Ruth Franchere. Illustrated by Earl Thollander. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1970.

Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. Kathleen Krull. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales. Harcourt, Inc. 2003.


REPORTS

OXFAM RELEASES REPORT: Like Machines In The Fields: Workers Without Rights in American Agriculture - March 15, 2004

Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope. A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the U.S. 2003.

Unfair Advantage: Workers’ Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards. Human Rights Watch. 2002.

Migrant Health Issues, National Center for Farm Worker Health. October, 2001

Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers. Human Rights Watch. 2000.

"For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food" (Mt 25:35) Catholic Reflections on Food, Farmers, and Farmworkers from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

VIDEOS

The Struggle in the Fields: Cesar Chavez & the Farmworkers' Struggle. Paradigm Productions. 25 minutes. 1997.


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