National Farm Worker Ministry an interfaith organization supporting farm workers as they organize for justice member organizations include nearly 40 national, state and local religious bodies
Sign postcards for FLOC's Reynolds Tobacco campaign for tobacco workers Despite several attempts by FLOC President Baldemar Velazquez and FLOC allies, Susan Ivey, CEO of RJ Reynolds, has refused to meet with FLOC to discuss conditions for farmworkers in North Carolina's tobacco fields. Print out and get postcards signed for us to deliver to RJ Reynolds, or contact Alexandria Jones at NFWM, (office: 919-489-4485 or cell: 919-597-1080) and she can send some to you. More information
Farm worker fired after wrongful death suit filed in niece’s death - Monterrey Herald, 6/23/08 The uncle of Maria Jimenez, the teenager who died May 16 of heatstroke while pruning a vineyard near Farmington, was fired Wednesday by the contractor who replaced Merced Farm Labor. That was the same day his sister, Maria's mother, filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the vineyard company and the contractor in charge when Maria Jimenez became ill. More
Mexican officials pressed on FLOC worker's slaying-- Toledo Blade, 6/20,2008 Though more than a year has passed since the murder in Mexico of Santiago Rafael Cruz, an organizer for the Toledo-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee, his fellow union members have not given up their quest for justice in the case. More
Farmworkers at highest risk of heat-related work death- Houston Chronicle, 6/19/08 Heat kills crop workers at nearly 20 times the rate of other U.S. workers, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention study released Thursday. Fatality rates were highest in North Carolina, followed by Florida and California, the CDC found. More
NFWM is 2008 Featured Awardee at the World Hunger Year (WHY)
Chapin Awards dinner
June 9, 2008 in New York City
At WHY dinner: Bill Ayres,WHY Director; Senator John Edwards; Virginia Nesmith, NFWM Director; Angelita Morrisroe, FLOC; and Isabel Rojas, UFW
Other 2008 honorees were Elvis Costello, Senator John Edwards and WCBS radio.
Oregon Farm Worker Ministry
Calls on Whole Foods to Support Workers at Beef Northwest
Photo: Andrea Cano
After a prayer vigil and leafleting, NFWM supporters in Portland, OR (Ed Brandt, Bill Hayden, Sister Kathleen Walsh, Andrea Cano, Father Armando Lopez) delivering letters signed by customers to show their support for workers at Beef Northwest feedlot who fatten the cattle that become Country Natural Beef sold at Whole Foods. more
