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Category: ACTION ALERTS
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Tell Reynolds that farmworkers deserve basic rights!
A message from Oxfam America and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee: If you are a farmworker in America, chances are you won’t live to be 50. That’s because the average life expectancy for a U.S. farmworker is 49 years. For … Continue reading
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Tagged Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina, Reynolds Tobacco
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Take Action for Ruby Ridge Workers!
A message from United Farm Workers: Twenty two past and current Ruby Ridge Dairy workers are suing the dairy for a variety of reasons, including not being paid all the wages they’re due, wrongful termination and other claims. Due to … Continue reading
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Tagged Darigold, Farm Workers, Oregon, Ruby Ridge Dairy, UFW, United Farm Workers, Washington State
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Call Publix Supermarkets in support of the CIW
A message from Interfaith Action of SW Florida: After a long journey by bicycle from Immokalee to Lakeland, Publix’s CEO Ed Crenshaw refused to even meet with the farmworkers who had traveled 200 miles to personally invite him to visit … Continue reading
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Tagged CIW, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Farm Workers, Florida, Publix Supermarkets
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Tell EPA it’s time to protect children from chlorpyrifos
A message from Pesticide Action Network of North America: Scientists have known for more than a decade that chlorpyrifos can be especially damaging to children. The latest studies tell us that exposure to the pesticide during fetal development and infancy … Continue reading
Rally for Human Rights For NC Tobacco Farmworkers
A message from the Farm Labor Organizing Committee: Join Oxfam and FLOC as they release a new report documenting the human rights abuses in NC tobacco fields and call on large tobacco companies to step up and take responsibility for the … Continue reading
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Tagged Farm Labor Organizing Committee, Farm Workers, FLOC, North Carolina, Reynolds Tobacco
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Stop the deportation of Vermont farm workers
UPDATE: The farm workers have been released, and given notice of a future court date. An internal investigation has been ordered regarding this case. Three out of the five people who protested the farmworkers’ detention were arrested. Thank you for taking … Continue reading
Free Skool Class: Farm Worker Struggles 101
Free Skool Class: Farm Worker Struggles 101 Join Tampa Bay YAYA and learn about the issues faced by farm workers in the United States! FREE SKOOL CLASS: Farm Workers Struggles 101 When: Saturday, September 17th @ 5 PM Where: BookLover’s Cafe, 2105 Central Ave, … Continue reading
Demand an Investigation!
A message from Cuentame: Demand An Investigation! Roberto Martinez-Medina died in CCA’s Stewart private detention facility in 2009. He was arrested for not having a driver’s license. CCA whistleblower Bryan Holcomb has exposed how the company repeatedly ignored Medina’s pleas for … Continue reading
Tell Obama to End S-COMM
Please sign the Presente petition asking President Obama to end the anti-immigrant program Secure Communities or S-COMM. A message from Presente.org: “President Obama is trying to force local police officer to turn people over to immigration through a program called … Continue reading
Take Action: Fair Treatment For Farm Workers Act
A message from the United Farm Workers: “It’s hot out there, really hot. And farm workers are working. California’s blazing sun may have already claimed two farm worker lives. And summer is in full swing with six more weeks of … Continue reading
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