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Today's guest blog is written by Peter O'Driscoll, Executive Director of the Equitable Food Initiative.  The Equitable Food Initiative (EFI) brings together workers, growers and retailers in the effort to produce better fruits and vegetables. As produce farms comply with … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Transforming the Produce Industry

"When we began our first interview, Demetrio seemed a little detached. He answered yes or no to most of our questions; however, when we began asking more about his family, we saw his eyes tell a different story. Demetrio told … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Separation of Families

The following is a guest blog by John Menditto, General Counsel and Director of Risk Management, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project. For more than forty years, East Coast Migrant Head Start Project  has been celebrating and educating the farmworker … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Celebrating and Educating the Farmworker Child

On this day of National Farmworker Awareness Week we celebrate women in farmworker communities by showcasing the work of one of our community partners. Lideres Campesinas, a community organization founded and run by women, is based in Oxnard, CA. Lideres … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Women in the Fields

Carly Fox is a Worker Rights Advocate who organizes dairy workers in the Workplace Justice Program at the Worker Justice Center of NY. Carly wrote this guest blog for National Farmworker Awareness Week. New York State’s dairy industry is booming … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Farmworker Life

The goal of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is to increase access to health care and health insurance for the country’s most vulnerable and underserved populations. Unfortunately, farmworkers and their families, perhaps one of the most vulnerable and underserved populations … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Invisibility in Health Access

For the “community” day of Farmworker Awareness Week, we bring you this message from Arcelia, a community health worker in California, on the importance of creating a community-wide understanding and respect for the right to a safe and healthy workplace. … Read more National Farmworker Awareness Week: Community

Today is the first day of National Farmworker Awareness Week. For our first blog post, we wanted to draw attention to the many farmworkers living and working along the borders of the United States. The border zone encompasses more people … Read more Celebrating National Farmworker Awareness Week: Border Issues

National Hispanic Leadership Agenda Issues Quadrennial Hispanic Public Policy Agenda Immigration policy is among the issues discussed in the report, subtitled “Blueprint for Advancing the Latino Community,” by the 40-organization coalition. Farmworker Justice is on the Board of Directors of … Read more Farmworker Justice Immigration Update 2/26/16

[Editor’s note: Today’s guest blog is from our colleagues at Migrant Clinicians Network, a nonprofit organization founded by migrant health clinicians that strives to improve the health care of migrants and other mobile poor populations through innovation and clinical excellence. … Read more Dairy Workers’ immigration status: An occupational safety hazard?