Evergreen YAYAs sponsor Mason County Literacy ESL Tutor Training
On October 15th and 16th, over 20 Evergreen YAYAs, students, and community members attended a ten hour volunteer training to learn how to tutor adult ... Read More »
Yearly Archives: 2010
Our Visit to Fellsmere
On October the third, Orlando YAYA members embarked on a 2 day immersion trip to Fellsmere, Florida, where we would lodge at the local Farm worker Ass... Read More »
Tags: Farm Workers, Florida
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Human Rights Forum at UCF
On Tuesday, September 21st, the Orlando YAYA Chapter participated in a "Human Rights Forum" hosted by the Hispanic American Student Association (HASA)... Read More »
Tags: DREAM Act, Farm Workers, Florida, Immigration
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DREAM Act Action @ Senator LeMieux's Office
On September 20th 2010, YAYA members Carolina, Dominique, Sindy and myself went to support SWER (Students Working for Equal Rights)'s DREAM Act acti... Read More »
Tags: DREAM Act, Florida, Immigration
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Musical Action in Support of FLOC!
After two days of arduos practice, Brian, Katie, Dominique, Cole, Lariza, and the author (known as ACAT: Anti-Chace Action Team), finally got the chan... Read More »
Tags: Chase Bank, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina, Reynolds Tobacco
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September Membership Meeting
On September 14th, the time came for Orlando YAYA to have our long awaited membership meeting at the First Congregational Church of Winter Park, for w... Read More »
Tags: Florida
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FLOC Launches JPMorgan Chase Divestment Campaign
JPMorgan Chase is one of the lead banks in a consortium of lenders that provides $498 million in credit to Reynolds American, one of the largest tobac... Read More »
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A Summer of Soccer Fun!
For more than a year we had wanted to organize soccer games between farm workers and supporters in order to build relationships between the communitie... Read More »
Tags: Farm Workers, Florida, Soccer
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Bike Delivery at the OUR Center
On Sunday August 22, 2010, YAYA supporters from North Florida took a trip to Hastings Florida. Our destination was the Organization of United Resource... Read More »
Tags: Farm Workers, Florida
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'Pesticides in the Fields' on Front Porch Radio
Listen to the most recent episode of the farm worker series on Front Porch Radio with Julie Norris. On this ocassion we spoke about pesticides with J... Read More »
Tags: Farm Workers, Florida, Pesticides
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