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About FWAF General Assembly. Apopka, March 17, 2013
Equal voice
Forward with Your Promise Caravan:
Immigrants Call for End to Deportations in U.S.
Immigration reform supporters make stop in Jax
 
Farmworkers and Pesticides
“Florida Farmworkers Urge EPA to Tighten Control of Pesticides" – The Palm Beach Post News
“Pesticides Put Farmworkers at Risk” – Tampa Bay Times
“Pesticide Company Pulls Methyl Iodide, used on strawberries, tomatoes, from U.S. Market” – Free Speech Radio News
Pesticide used on tomato crops determined dangerous by EPA

Latino Small Farmer
“Hispanics Going from Field Hand to Farm Owner” – The Orlando Sentinel Download PDF file

Immigration
- Thousands rally for immigration reform in D.C. as proposal details emerge
“Knee-A-Thon Comes to Lake Wales” – The Lake Wales News
“Business Groups in Florida, as in Utah and Arizona, move to ease immigration enforcement efforts” – The Orlando Sentinel Download PDF file

Lake Apopka Farmworkers and Memorial Quilt Project
“A Life Engulfed by Pesticides” – The Atlantic
“Quilt Honors Farmworkers Who Labored by Great Lake” – The Orlando Sentinel
“Apopka Farmworkers Say Pesticide Exposure Caused Illnesses” – The Orlando Weekly
“The Sunshine State’s Pesticide Problem” – The Atlantic
“Former Farmworkers in Apopka lose out on hope for health care coverage, and use quilts to promote their cause” – Freeline Media
“Senate Agriculture Committee to Study Plight of Lake Apopka Farmworkers” – The Current
“Barry Estabrook on the High Cost of Cheap Tomatoes” – The Orlando Weekly
“Farmworker Representative Says Senate Report Provides Validation for Lake Apopka Farmworkers” – The Current
“Justice Never Too Late for Lake Apopka Farmworkers” – Pesticide Action Network International web site
“Apopka Farmworker Quilts Tell Tales of Struggle” – The Orlando Sentinel

Farmworkers and Natural Disasters
Farmworkers Scavenge For Food In Miami-Dade
Florida farmworkers: Cold snap cost us $50M in wages
Farmworkers ask state to help with losses
Southwest Florida vegetable farmworker income down $23.6 million after freeze
FWAF work with Youth
Rollins-SPARC 2012 photos in Apopka Chief