Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM

About Me

YAYA is the Youth and Young Adult Network of the National Farm Worker Ministry. YAYA members are young people from different universities, churches and communities who are interested in working in solidarity with farm workers to achieve, social and environ-mental justice, fair wages and dignity.

YAYA members interact with local farm workers in a diverse array of activities: from local to national projects and campaigns!
As a member of YAYA you have the opportunity to:
- Work with farmworkers striving for self-determination in their lives
- Make an impact on formation of public policy
- Learn first hand about air, water and soil where you live
- Work in collaboration with those who want this community to be healthier, safer and happier.
- Learn about other cultures
- Demand corporations to be responsible within their supply chains!
- Join us in a partnership that will change your life and the lives of others!
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My Interests

- Farmworkers - Justice - Equality - Peace - Fair Wages - Human Rights - Labor Rights

I'd like to meet:

Young people who are ready to work for justice and dignity for farmworkers in the US!!!!

Music:

- Local bands that play for YAYA events and for Farmworker Organization benefit concerts!
- Arlo Guthrie
- Rage Against the Machine (played in a concert for the CIW)

- The Indigo Girls (played a benefit concert for FLOC!!)
- Baldemar VelÃ¡squez and the Aguila Negra band

Movies:

- The Struggle in the Fields: Cesar Chavez & the Farmworkers' Struggle. Paradigm Productions.
- Dying to Live
- Guestworker by Cynthia Hill & Charlie Thompson
- Harvest of Shameâ€”Edward R. Murrow
- Focal Point, Standards of Livingâ€”WRAL News NC

Books:

- Fields of Toil: A Migrant Family's Journey by Isabel Valle

- Communities Without Borders: Images and Voices from the World of Migration. By: David Bacon; Carlos MuÃ±oz Jr. (Foreword); Douglas Harper (Foreword)

- Florida's Farmworkers in the Twenty-First Century by Nano Riley- Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy by John Bowe
- Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
- With These Hands: The Hidden World of Migrant Farmworkers Today by Daniel Rothenberg
-Autobiography of La Causa. Jacques E. Levy. W.W. Norton & Co.
-Conquering Goliath: Cesar Chavez at the Beginning. Fred Ross. El Taller Grafico Press.
-The Human Cost of Food: Farmworkers' Lives, Labor and Advocacy. Edited by Charles D. Thompson, Jr., and Melinda F. Wiggins.
-California's Broken Promises: The Laws on the Books are Not the Laws in the Fields. Stories and photos of California Farm Workers.
-Florida's Farmworkers in the 21st Century. Nano Riley & Davida Johns.
-Immokalee's Fields of Hope. Carlene A. Thissen.
-Photographing Farmworkers in California. Richard Steven Street.
-The Radical Peasant. Gerald F. Cox.
-Biography of Fr. Charles Philipps, diocese of San Francisco, who mentored several young priests who were early and life-long activists in the farm worker movement, and active with the UFW.
-Ministry of the Dispossessed--Pat Hoffman
-Grapes of Conflictâ€”Sydney Smith
-Food & Faith, Justice Joy & Daily Breadâ€”edited & compiled by Michael Schut
-Barefoot Heart, Stories of a Migrant Childâ€”Elva TreviÃ±o Hart
-For children:
-Cesar Chavez. Ruth Franchere. Illustrated by Earl Thollander. Thomas Y. Crowell Company. 1970.
-Harvesting Hope: The Story of Cesar Chavez. Kathleen Krull. Illustrated by Yuyi Morales. Harcourt, Inc. 2003.
Reports:
-OXFAM RELEASES REPORT: Like Machines In The Fields: Workers Without Rights in American Agriculture - March 15, 2004
-Strangers No Longer: Together on the Journey of Hope. A Pastoral Letter Concerning Migration from the Catholic Bishops of Mexico and the U.S. 2003.
-Unfair Advantage: Workersâ€™ Freedom of Association in the United States under International Human Rights Standards. Human Rights Watch. 2002.
-Migrant Health Issues, National Center for Farm Worker Health. October, 2001
-Fingers to the Bone: United States Failure to Protect Child Farmworkers. Human Rights Watch. 2000.
-"For I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food" (Mt 25:35) Catholic Reflections on Food, Farmers, and Farmworkers from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops

Heroes:

Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Baldemar Velasquez, Arturo Rodriguez, Richie Ross

-National Farmworker Ministry: www.nfwm.org
-United Farm Workers www.ufw.org
-Farm Labor Organizing Comittee www.floc.com
-Farmworker Association of Florida
-Coalition of Immokalee Workers www.ciw-online.org

-Student action with Farmworkers www.cds.aas.duke.edu/saf
-Sarasota-Manatee Farmworker Supporters www.smfws.com
-Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) www.pcun.org
-National Center for Farmworker Health www.ncfh.org
-Global Exchange www.globalexchange.org/countries/americas/unitedstates/farmw orkers
-Farmworker Justice www.fwjustice.org
-AFL-CIO www.aflcio.org
-Pesticide Action Network of America www.panna.org

My Blog

Children Paying a Heavy Price for ICE’s Immigration Raids

Children Paying a Heavy Price for ICE's Showy Immigration RaidsBy Kay Steiger, In These Times. Posted June 24, 2008.The children of those arrested in flashy-but-ineffectual ICE raids -- many of whom a...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:03:00 PST

Pesticide Dangers to Human Health Carry Through Multiple Generations

by David Gutierrez (NaturalNews) A recent study conducted by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin has uncovered evidence that the damage done by pesticides may last for four generations ...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:35:00 PST

Heat-related deaths of farm workers blamed on language barriers

The interesting thing about the following article is the statistics it presents. It is obvious that the solution to the problem of heat-related death in the fields is to make laws that are enforced an...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:33:00 PST

Central Florida Action Alert: Protest at Whole Foods!

Beef Northwest has refused to recognize the United Farm Workers as the representative of the workers at their feedlots or to negotiate a contract. Whole Foods purchases 60% of their beef from Beef No...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:04:00 PST

Please support farm workers in your hometown this Saturday

Dear friends, PLEASE SUPPORT THE WORKERS AT BEEF NORTHWEST. ORGANIZE A SMALL PROTEST IN FRONT OF YOUR LOCAL WHOLE FOODS STORE THIS SATURDAY JUNE 22. Organize a small protest in front of your local Who...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 12:25:00 PST

Action Alert: Portland Supporters: Sat June 22nd

Support the Workers at Beef NorthwestWHAT: Prayer Vigil and Public Action with Faith and LaborWHEN: Sunday, June 22, 1 pm in Portland WHERE: Whole Foods Market, 3535 NE 15th Ave. & Fremont Ave., Portl...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Thu, 19 Jun 2008 11:47:00 PST

Rush 2 Prosecute= Immigrant Victims of Crimes w/o protection

Rush to Prosecute Leaves Immigrant Victims of Crimes Without ProtectionBy Wendy Feliz Sefsaf, New America MediaImmigrants who have been trafficked or abused by employers usually enjoy the protection o...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Wed, 18 Jun 2008 03:17:00 PST

Rush 2 Prosecute= Immigrant Victims of Crimes w/o protection

Exposure to pesticide raises diabetes risk

MONDAY JUNE 9, 2008 (foodconsumer.org) -- A new US government study shows that licensed pesticide applicators that used chlorinated pesticides for more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater ...
Posted by Youth And Young Adult (YAYA) network of the NFWM on Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:59:00 PST