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Farm Worker Awareness Week
Farmworker Awareness Week (FAW) is a nation-wide week of action for students and community members to raise awareness about farm worker issues on their campuses and in their communities. Every year FAW takes place during the week of Cesar Chavez’ … Continue reading
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. It was also an opportunity to mobilize others in support of farm worker campaigns including: – PANNA’s … Continue reading
Farmworker Awareness Week Radio Show Special!
YAYA returned to Front Porch Radio with Julie Norris for a special about Farm Worker Awareness Week on Cesar Chavez’ birthday, March 31st. Bert Perry of the National Farm Worker Ministry discussed the history of the movement in Florida, and … Continue reading
2009 FWA in Florida
This year’s Farm Worker Awareness Week was a success! Young people in Florida worked hard to honor farm workers, support farm worker campaigns and bring awareness about the farm worker movement to their communities. This year we focused on supporting … Continue reading
FWA 2009 in Orlando and Winter Park, Florida
Young people from Orlando and Winter Park, Florida planned and participated in several events for FWA 2009. Here is a short report of these activities. On March 28, a group of UCF and Rollins College Students went to the fields … Continue reading
2009 FWA in Gainesville, Florida
Gainesville celebrated Farm Worker Awareness Week with various events that were put together by YAYA’s local support group. This group is a coalition of different groups and community members. The first event took place at the Westminster Presbyterian Church, where … Continue reading
2008 Farm Worker Awareness Week at Stetson University
In our continued to effort to inform the Stetson campus of the many injustices toward farm workers that are occurring both here in our state of Florida and around the country, we set up an information table all week long. … Continue reading
Farm Worker Awareness Week in St. Augustine, FL
On Friday April 4th, we had a speaker at the Gamache-Koger Theater on Flagler College’s Campus. The lecture lasted from 5:30-7pm. We opened the forum with Lariza Garzon of NFWM’s YAYA network speaking about the farm workers’ struggles here in … Continue reading
Farm Worker Awareness Week 2008 Largo Middle School
After thinking of ways to spread awareness on the many farm worker issues for the National Farm Worker Awareness Week, I came up with the idea of having a speaker come to my school. What better place to spread awareness … Continue reading
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2008 Farm Worker Awareness Week: Central Florida Report
Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking Presentations The Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking and YAYA joined forces during National Farm Worker Awareness Week 2008 in order to inform our communities about how human trafficking affects farm workers and their communities. The … Continue reading
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