Naranjeros
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The Farmworker Association of Florida is proud and honored to have worked with the Harvard Law Documentary Studio at Harvard Law School in creating Naranjeros. Directed by Harvard Law School student Lauren Estévez, the film documents the realities of being a citrus worker in Florida, whether that means unfair wages or the risks of being deported. With FWAF staff, community and Board members speaking from their own personal experiences and about the realities they face daily, the film is a powerful narrative of what workers endure in Florida's citrus industry production. Naranjeros is the perfect example of how we can all make a change and practice social activism in our own way. More importantly, we can all raise awareness in regards to the injustices occurring at our dinner tables, and take a stand and make positive change! Read a profile of the student filmmaker "here" and read an excerpt of an interview with one of the workers "here" |
Together in the struggle for justice!
Friends,
Today, we are launching our Letter Writing Campaign to Governor Rick Scott to express our deep disappointment in his veto of funding for the clinic in Apopka to help with the serious health care problems of the former Lake Apopka farmworkers. $500,000 to address chronic, serious illness for people who worked all their lives so that we could have food seems like such a small price to pay for a people who have so marginalized and practically forgotten. We will not let them down and we will not forget them! Please help us reach our goal of sending 200 letters to the office of Governor Scott. A SAMPLE LETTER is attached.
Lighthouse Project
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Cristobal Calzada Guillen has spent more than half of his life picking crops in the fields near Immokalee. For the past 32 years, waking up at the crack of dawn to work under the sun, rain or cold has become his routine. "It's hard," the 59-year-old man said in Spanish.
Senate Bill 1070
After standing in a state of unknown for the past two years, the United States has finally taken up the historic immigration and civil rights case, Arizona vs. United States. At the heart of the issue lies Arizona’s 2010 immigration law, Senate Bill 1070 (SB 1070). To the dismay of many advocates and allies within the immigrant rights community, the court case solely focused on whether or not the federal
Woman to Woman Conference
3rd Annual Woman to Woman Conference was a huge success!
With over 100 women and their children in attendance, this year's Conference will be one for the records! The Farmworker Association of Florida, in partnership with the Women's Studies Department at the University of Central Florida, the Youth and Young Adult Network of the National Farmworker Ministry,