Immersion trip to Homestead and Immokalee
On April 17-19, a group of middle school students from Miami spent their weekend in the rural communities of Homestead and Immokalee. They engaged in ... Read More »
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Lack of Social Benefits and Legal Protections
“We shall strike. We shall organize boycotts. We shall demonstrate and have political campaigns. We shall pursue the revolution we have proposed. ... Read More »
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Women Farm Workers Face Special Challenges
"Be angry about injustice! Use your skills to make the world a better place." Dolores Huerta- Duke University, 1983 Women Farm Workers Face Specia... Read More »
Tags: Women
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Farm Worker Health Concerns
“It is clearly evident that our path travels through a valley of tears well known to all farm workers, because in all valleys the way of the farm... Read More »
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Third World Housing Conditions
“It is ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance hav... Read More »
Tags: WRAL
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Migrant Education
“Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one’s life t... Read More »
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Childhood and Child Labor
“Perhaps we can bring the day when children will learn from their earliest days that being fully man and fully woman means to give one’s life to... Read More »
Tags: Child Labor
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Blessing the Hands: A Curriculum
NFWM's Curriculum on Farm Workers is available as a Free Download. Blessing the Hands: A Curriculum on Farm Workers for Faith Communities was creat... Read More »
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Hazardous and Unsanitary Working Conditions
“It is ironic that those who till the soil, cultivate and harvest the fruits, vegetables, and other foods that fill your tables with abundance ha... Read More »
Tags: Pesticides, working conditions
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Below-Poverty Wages, Malnutrition and Hunger
The food that overflows our market shelves and fills our tables is harvested by men, women, and children who often cannot satisfy their own hunger -... Read More »
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