Nearly 80% of farmworkers are male, and most are younger than 31.
2012 Partners & Campaigns
ALPHA PHI OMEGA-Duke is a national coeducational service fraternity founded on the cardinal principles of Leadership, Friendship and Service. It provides its members the opportunity to develop leadership skills as they provide service to their campus, to youth and the community, to the nation, and to members of the Fraternity.
The Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs (AFOP) has been an advocate for migrant and seasonal farmworkers in the United States since 1971. AFOP’s mission is to improve the quality of life for migrant and seasonal farmworkers and their families by providing advocacy for the member organizations that serve them. AFOP and its member organizations serve farmworkers in 49 states and Puerto Rico.
AFOP’s Children in the Fields project strives to improve the quality of life of migrant and seasonal farmworker children by advocating for enhanced educational opportunities and the elimination of discriminatory federal child labor laws in agriculture.
Watch AFOP's film 'Migrant Education Programming: Promise for the Future 'Comunidad a Comunidad
Bon Appétit Management Company is an onsite restaurant company that provides café and catering services to corporations, colleges and universities, and specialty venues. We have over 400 locations in 31 states. Our Dream is to be the premier onsite restaurant company known for its culinary expertise and commitment to socially responsible practices, including justice for farmworkers. In the last few years, we have worked with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) to improve working conditions for tomato pickers in Florida; we have collaborated with United Farm Workers of America, with support from Oxfam America, to release a groundbreaking report which provides the most comprehensive picture of the state of farm work today; our foundation posted TEDx Fruitvale, bringing together a diverse group to provided a 360-degree view of farmworkers today and throughout history. We are a culture driven to create food that is alive with flavor and nutrition, and strive to do so in a manner that is socially responsible manner for the well being of our guests, communities and the environment.
Watch video: Images of the Farmworker Movement
CATA is a migrant farmworker organization that is governed by and comprised of farmworkers who are actively engaged in the struggle for better working and living conditions. CATA's mission is to empower and educate farmworkers through leadership development and capacity building so that they are able to make informed decisions regarding the best course of action for their interests. CATA has advanced based on the belief that only through organizing and collective action can they achieve justice and fullness of life. CATA’s programs are based on the Popular Education Methodology, which actively involve farmworkers in the process of social change. This means that the analysis and proposed actions come directly from the farmworkers. Also inherent in CATA’s mission is the importance of analyzing the farmworker reality in terms of the food system. In doing so, projects and campaigns are undertaken with the goal of achieving meaningful and lasting improvements rather than mere reforms to a legal and economic system that is structurally biased against them.
El Centro Hispano (ECH) is a 501 (c) (3) grassroots community based organization dedicated to strengthening the Latino community and improving the quality of life of Latino residents in Durham, Carrboro, Chapel Hill and surrounding areas.
Duke Students for Humane Borders is a student-led activist group that works to raise awareness on Duke’s campus and in the surrounding Durham community about the humanitarian and human rights issues involving immigration.
The long-standing mission of the Farmworker Association of Florida is to build power among farmworker and rural low-income communities to respond to and gain control over the social, political, economic, workplace, health, and environmental justice issues that impact their lives.
The Farmworker Association’s guiding vision is a social environment where farmworkers’ contribution, dignity, and worth are acknowledged, appreciated, and respected through economic, social, and environmental justice. This vision includes farmworkers being treated as equals, and not exploited and discriminated against based on race, ethnicity, immigrant status, or socioeconomic status.
Watch the Sowing the Seeds of Justice video
Watch Elvira, A Farmworker
Farmworker Justice uses litigation, administrative and legislative advocacy, training and technical assistance, coalition-building, public education and support for union organizing to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.
Farmworker Justice is a proud sponsor of Farmworker Awareness Week, working with organizations around the country to bring timely and accurate information to the public on a variety of farmworkers' issues.
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (FLOC), is both a social movement and a labor union. Our immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but we are also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, our local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice.
The FLOC vision emphasizes human rights as the standard and self-determination as the process for achieving these rights. We struggle for justice for those who have been marginalized and exploited for the benefit of others and we work to change the structures of society to enable workers to have a direct voice in their own conditions.
Support Tabacoo Workers! Check out: FLOC's Reynolds Campaign
Watch video: Chase protest
Friends of Farmworkers is a legal services provider with a mission to improve the living and working conditions of indigent farmworkers, mushroom workers, food processing workers, and workers from immigrant and migrant communities and their families.
Justice (Justicia) for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer driven collective committed to organizing with and for migrant farm workers in Canada along with their families and social movements within their countries of origin. Migrant workers are contracted to work in Canada through diverse Temporary Foreign Worker Programs but as racialized farmworkers from the Global South they are among the most marginalized and exploited labour force in the country today. As an autonomous grass roots community group we fully support workers in taking leadership in their own transnational struggles for work and livelihoods with dignity and human rights.
Watch the video El Contrato
Watch Pilgrimage to Freedom: Breaking the Chains of Indentureship
Mi Gente: Asociación de Estudiantes Latinos was founded in 1992 as the central Latino/a organization at Duke University. Mi Gente's mission is to provide a sense of community among Latinos/as at Duke as well as to promote awareness and sponsor activities about Latino/a cultural, political, educational, and social issues. It is a forum for individuals to explore the diverse histories, identities, and traditions that make up the Latino/a world.
We strive to serve as a voice and to raise awareness on campus for Latino/a and other multicultural concerns. One of Mi Gente's priorities is to reach out to first year students and provide them with a home and a familia as they make their way through Duke. Mi Gente also strives to develop relations with the Durham Latino/a population through activities such as community service and outreach programs.
The National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challenge honors Cesar E. Chavez's Legacy as an American civic leader by engaging students to promote health education, health professions, civic engagement and saving lives! A student organizer and a team of student volunteers at each college campus coordinate a donor recruitment campaign culminating in a campus-wide health service-learning event. To LEAD or support the campaign on your campus, contact us: Support@MigrantStudents.org
Watch the video: 2012 National Cesar E. Chavez Blood Drive Challange
National Farm Worker Ministry is a faith based organization which supports farm workers as they organize for justice and empowerment.
YAYA is the Youth & Young Adult Network of the National Farm Worker Ministry, a national network of young people actively working to change the oppressive social, political and economic conditions of farm workers.
Inspired by the principles of nonviolence of the farm worker movement, YAYAs support a variety of national and local campaigns led by farm workers. These campaigns seek to improve the oppressive conditions faced by the workers who harvest our food.
YAYA's facebook page | YAYA's myspace page
NC FIELD and Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs
“Planting the Future of Agriculture in North Carolina”
Our mission is to create strategies and initiate collaborative actions that will promote justice and equality by increasing access to opportunities for the farm working community.
NC Focus on Increasing Education, Leadership and Dignity (NC FIELD) works to educate, organize community leaders and promote justice in North Carolina’s agricultural worker communities by ending child labor, delivering educational programming, particularly to unaccompanied youth, and promoting food security, housing solutions and other opportunities that enhance quality of life.
Watch video: Overworked & Under Spray
Oxfam America is an international relief and development organization that creates lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. Together with individuals and local groups in more than 100 countries, Oxfam saves lives, helps people overcome poverty, and fights for social justice. Oxfam’s Decent Work Program is helping meat-processing and farmworkers in the US Southeast secure their rights to collective bargaining, fair compensation, safe working conditions, and freedom from discrimination.
Park Ridge is a PRG Community nestled on over 30 acres of picturesque landscaped grounds. Park Ridge Estates in Durham, NC offers the ideal balance for carefree and convenient living.
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste - PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United), is Oregon's union of farmworkers, nursery, and reforestation workers, and Oregon's largest Latino organization. PCUN's fundamental goal is to empower farmworkers to understand and take action against systematic exploitation and all of its effects. To achieve this end, PCUN is involved in community and workplace organizing on many different levels.
Founded in 1985 by 80 farmworkers, PCUN has since registered more than 5,000 members, 98% of which are Mexican and Central American immigrants, and to encompass a wide variety of organizing projects.
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA) works to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound and socially just alternatives. As one of five PAN Regional Centers worldwide, we link local and international consumer, labor, health, environment and agriculture groups into an international citizens’ action network. This network challenges the global proliferation of pesticides, defends basic rights to health, worker safety, and environmental quality, and works to ensure the transition to a just and viable food system.
Watch video: Pesticide Industry on Trial
Student/Farmworker Alliance is a national network of students and youth organizing with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We work in alliance with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW), a Florida-based, membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage workers. We are currently calling on leading supermarket chains such as Publix, Trader Joe’s, Stop & Shop, and Kroger, to do their part as major produce purchasers to improve wages and working conditions for tomato pickers in Florida
Our major action with the CIW in March 2012 is the "Fast for Fair Food", where over 50 farmworkers and allies will go without food for 6 days in front of Publix' headquarters in Lakeland, FL. They are demanding that Publix support the fundamental human rights for farmworkers that are taking root today in Florida's fields thanks to the CIW's Fair Food Program."
Take Action: Demand Fair Food from Your Supermarket!
Watch SFA videos: Video 1 Video 2 Video 3
Student Labor Action Project - Working with Jobs with Justice and the United States Student Association, Student Labor Action Project supports the growing student movement for economic justice by making links between campus and community organizing. We do this by providing skills trainings to build lasting student organizations and developing campaigns that win concrete victories for working families- all while breaking the poverty cycle by fighting for access to higher education and full & fair employment. This allows students to recognize power relationships in a much larger fight, where students are fundamentally connected to workers and workers to students.
Toxic Free NC - pesticides are over-used in North Carolina and around the world, polluting our food, water and our bodies. Toxic Free NC fights pesticide pollution in North Carolina by advocating for common-sense alternatives that protect our health and environment. We are an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization – North Carolina’s only organization working to put people before pesticides.
Watch the video: Overworked & Under Spray: Young Farm Workers' Pesticide Stories
The University of Florida-Samuel Proctor Oral History Program
Our primary mission is to gather, preserve, and promote living histories of individuals from all walks of life.
Watch Video: The Life of an Agricultural Worker in Florida
University of Minnesota Department of Chicano Studies
Through teaching, research, and community partnerships, the mission of the Department of Chicano Studies at the University of Minnesota is to promote critical understanding of the histories, politics, and cultures of Chicanas/os and Latinas/os of the United States. We are proud to be a sponsor of National Farmworker Awareness Week 2011. The Chicano Studies class, Migrant Farmworkers in the US: Family, Work and Advocacy, taught every spring semester, will play a significant role in this initiative.
United Farm Workers is currently concentrating on immigration reform, protecting farm workers from dying of becoming ill from extreme heat and the Employee Free Choice Act for Farm Workers – which is Calif. legislation which will expand farm workers right to organize. The UFW is out there in the fields every day continuing Cesar Chavez' legacy to improve the lives of farm workers. You can find out more about our efforts at our multilingual website. We are also supporting grassroots efforts for a national Cesar Chavez holiday and have posted an online petition at our Cesar Chavez resource page located at www.ufw.org/cesarchavez.
Watch the video Cesar Chavez
Witness for Peace (WFP) is a politically independent, grassroots organization of people committed to nonviolence and led by faith and conscience. Our mission is to support peace, justice and sustainable economies in the Americas by changing U.S. policies and corporate practices that contribute to poverty and oppression in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Join the Pilgrimage for Justice and Peace 2012!
The Worker Justice Center of New York pursues justice for those denied human rights with a focus on agricultural and other low-wage workers, through legal representation, community empowerment and advocacy for institutional change.
Speak out! Take Action in your community this spring and add your voice to the movement for farmworker justice.
