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
Volunteer to drive for SAF’s Project Levante Can’t wait until summer to be a volunteer driver? You’re in luck! Student Action with Farmworkers’ Project Levante (to “Rise Up”) is looking for volunteer drivers to drive students to/from Saturday workshops once or twice a month.
Project Levante is a farmworker led youth group that holds 2-3 meetings per month in Benson, NC. This great program enhances the organizing and leadership skills of 12-20 youth from farmworker families in Eastern North Carolina. For more information on how you can help, email Rosie Rangel or call her at 919-660-3652
CONTACT RJ REYNOLDS
Join the Farm Labor Organizing Committee in their campaign calling on RJ Reynolds to take responsibility for the tragedies that are occurring in the tobacco fields throughout North Carolina.
CEO Susan Ivey of Reynolds American, Inc. (RJR parent company) has thus far refused to even talk with FLOC farmworker leaders, despite the fact that RAI reaps tremendous profits from the labor of these workers in the fields.
Help tobacco harvesters gain respect in their work with this campaign for health and dignity in the workplace.
Show R.J. Reynolds WE WILL NOT BE SILENT while people are dying in the fields Send a letter to RJ Reynolds' CEO urging her to meet with FLOC
JUSTICE AT SMITHFIELD
32,000 hogs are slaughtered each day at the Smithfield Packing Plant in Tarheel, NC, and unsafe conditions put workers at risk every day, not to mention extreme anti-union intimidation by management, "divide & conquer" techniques used to pit Black and Latino workers against eachother, and retaliation against workers who speak out. Human Rights Watch has even cited Smithfield for violating international human rights standards. But, the good news is that workers are organizing, and YOU can get involved.
NFWM-NC is a member of the Farmworker Advocacy Network. Among the primary concerns of the network is substandard housing conditions for farmworkers in the state.
Witnesses to the Kingdom: The Beatitudes Embodied, by Matthew R Smalley
Duke Divinity School student and NFWM intern looks at how the Beatitudes relate to sharing our lives with farm workers by refecting on the lives of Cesar Chavez, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. $5.00 each Order from NFWM
Half of Latino farm workers in North Carolina are unable to feed their families - Raleigh News & Observer, May 13, 2003 Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center base findings on survery of 102 families in a five-county area in central North Carolina. "Harvesting for Mt. Olive: A National Farm Worker Ministry Delegation Report" - June 1999
Can’t wait until summer to be a volunteer driver? You’re in luck! Student Action with Farmworkers’ Project Levante (to “Rise Up”) is looking for volunteer drivers to drive students to/from Saturday workshops once or twice a month.
