24 Hour Fast Held in Los Angeles in Solidarity with Giumarra Workers
About 75 farm worker supporters gathered throughout the night and day on Friday, April 23rd to show their support for the struggle of farm workers a... Read More »
Category: News & Archives
Action at RJ Reynolds Shareholders Meeting
On May 6th, 2010, a group of 11 Florida YAYAs from Orlando, St. Augustine and Jacksonville traveled to North Carolina to support the Farm Labor Organi... Read More »
Tags: Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, Florida, North Carolina
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Parade Puppets!
On Thursday April 22nd at 6pm, Orlando YAYA members gathered at Jamie Donmoyer's house (a local puppeteer) to make parade puppets. Jamie generously h... Read More »
Tags: Florida
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CIW Farm Worker Freedom March
Forty-five YAYA members and supporters joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and over 1,000 allies from around the country for the Farm worker Fre... Read More »
Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Farm Workers, Florida, Publix Supermarkets
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Urbe Prima Concert
The talented and big-hearted Spanish rock band Urbe Prima invited Orlando YAYA to hold an info table along with other social justice organizations at ... Read More »
Tags: Florida
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May 1: March and Vigil for Immigrant, Civil and Human Rights
United Methodist Women and Local Advocacy Groups Gather in St. Louis on May 1 to Call for Immigrant, Civil and Human Rights On Saturday, May 1, 2010,... Read More »
Tags: Immigrant Rights, Missouri, United Methodist Women
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March for Justice: Tobaccoville to Reynolds Tobacco Headquarters in Winston-Salem, NC
March 31, the 83rd anniversary of Cesar Chavez’s birth, couldn’t have been a better day to march in solidarity with tobacco farmworkers. In the co... Read More »
Tags: Event Announcements
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2010's Farm Worker Awareness Week
2010's Farm Worker Awareness Week was an exciting opportunity for YAYA members to bring awareness about the farm worker movement to their communities.... Read More »
Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, DREAM Act, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, Immigration, Pesticides, UFW, United Farm Workers, Washington State
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H2 Worker Movie Screening
We were very excited to join UCF's Student for a Democratic Society (SDS) for their monthly film screening at Natura Cafe on April 5. We screened the ... Read More »
Tags: Farm Workers, Florida, Immigration
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CIW’s Modern-Day Slavery Museum
On April 2nd Orlando YAYA partnered with UCF's Campus Peace Action’s Tent City and Student Labor Action Project at UCF to host the Coalition of Immo... Read More »
Tags: CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Farm Workers, Florida
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