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Cultivating Brighter Futures

National Farmworker Awareness Week is a time for all of us to recognize the challenges faced by the 2.5 million workers on America’s farms. Of those farmworkers, it is estimated between 400,000 and 50… more →

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Cultivating Brighter Futures

Norma Flores López, Director of the Children in the Fields Campaign wrote 1 month ago: National Farmworker Awareness Week is a time for all of us to recognize the challenges faced by the … more →

Tags: AFOP, American Federation of Teachers, Child Labor, Child Labor Coalition, Education, Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker Children Essay & Ar, National Farmworker Awareness Week, W.K. Kellogg Foundation

National Farmworker Awareness Week 2013

Daniel Sheehan, Executive Director, AFOP wrote 1 month ago: For those of us dedicated to supporting and advocating for the estimated 2.5 million farmworkers in … more →

Tags: AFOP, Health & Safety Programs, American Farms, Cesar Chavez, Child Labor, Environmental health, farmworker, Food Justice, Job Training

Further Action Needed to Protect Farmworkers — 1 comment

Ayrianne Parks, Communications Director, AFOP wrote 4 months ago: This week we celebrated the 30th Anniversary of the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protect … more →

Tags: AFOP, Health & Safety Programs, agriculture injuries, California Institute for Rural Studies, Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Farmworker Justice, H-2A Guestworker Program, Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act

2012: A Year of Victories and Challenges — 1 comment

Daniel Sheehan, Executive Director, AFOP wrote 4 months ago: I joined the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs this past September, taking over for ret … more →

Tags: AFOP, Health & Safety Programs, agriculture injuries, American Farms, Child Labor, Chipotle, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, H.R. 4297, Hazardous Orders

Do Consumers Care About Farmworkers?

Ayrianne Parks, Communications Director, AFOP wrote 6 months ago: A great question was posed in an article today on immigrant farmworkers and New York’s local food ma … more →

Tags: AFOP, Health & Safety Programs, Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Collective Bargaining, fair food, Food Justice, living wage, Overtime, poverty

Migrant Students Make an Impact in the Community through Theater

AFOP wrote 6 months ago: By Noemi Ochoa, Children in the Fields Campaign Texas Regional Coordinator, AFOP South Texas is home … more →

Tags: “Children in the Fields” Youth Council, El Moscas y Los Pesticidas, EPA, Laredo United Independent School District, Migrants in Action, pesticide safety, Pesticides

U.S. Child Labor: Becoming the Change We Want to See

Vashti Kelly, Children in the Fields Campaign Engagement Manager, AFOP wrote 7 months ago: Numerous media stories have been circulating covering the three newly released reports on Internatio … more →

Tags: Child Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, poverty, worst forms of child labor, Hazardous Occupations Order for Agriculture, Bureau of International Labor Affairs

Labor Rights Week: Unfinished Business in the Fields — 2 comments

David Strauss, AFOP's Executive Director wrote 8 months ago: Today marks the beginning of Labor Rights Week, a time when the United States and many of its allies … more →

Tags: Health & Safety Programs, AFOP, Child Labor, poverty, Minimum Wage, Labor Rights Week, Overtime, Unemployment Insurance, Piece Rate

Two Different Worlds — 1 comment

AFOP wrote 9 months ago: By Ivon Garcia, Children in the Fields Campaign Intern, AFOP I remember my mother’s hands moving so … more →

Tags: Child Labor, National Migrant and Seasonal Head Start Association, NC FIELD, Poder Juvenil Campesino

World Day Against Child Labor 2012

Norma Flores López, Director of the Children in the Fields Campaign wrote 11 months ago: According to the 2010 Global report on child labor prepared by the International Labour Organization … more →

Tags: AFOP, North Carolina, farmworker, Child Labor, International Labour Organization, Food Justice, Norma Flores Lopez, Texas, Harvest of Dignity

This is Your Brain on Pesticides

Justin Feldman, Health & Safety Program Associate, AFOP wrote 11 months ago: Last year, several studies linked pesticide exposure in pregnant women to lower IQs in their childre … more →

Tags: Health & Safety Programs, chlorpyrifos, Environmental Justice, EPA, Pesticides, Project LEAF

Proud Voices: Changing Communities One Story At A Time

Vashti Kelly, Children in the Fields Campaign Engagement Manager, AFOP wrote 1 year ago: The Children in the Fields Campaign is hosting our first child labor mini-conference entitled, “Yout … more →

Tags: North Carolina, farmworker, Child Labor, Texas, NC FIELD, Poder Juvenil Campesino

Honoring Cesar Chavez

David Strauss, AFOP's Executive Director wrote 1 year ago: In 1968-69, I remember first hearing about the United Farm Workers (UFW) and Cesar Chavez. Many of m … more →

Tags: AFOP, agriculture injuries, American Farms, Cesar Chavez, Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Food Justice, living wage, National Farmworker Awareness Week

Roots of Change

Norma Flores López, Director of the Children in the Fields Campaign wrote 1 year ago: National Farmworker Awareness Week is a time to increase awareness on both the difficult conditions … more →

Tags: agriculture injuries, Child Labor, National Farmworker Awareness Week, Norma Flores Lopez, Pesticides, poverty

Farmworker Youth: Empowered and Activated to Create Change

AFOP wrote 1 year ago: By Noemi Ochoa, Children in the Fields Campaign Texas Regional Coordinator Farmworker Awareness Week … more →

Tags: Child Labor, Texas, National Farmworker Awareness Week, UTPA, Migrants in Action, The Harvest/La Cosecha

Farmworker Youth and Advocates Discuss Child Labor at Duke University — 1 comment

Emily Drakage, Children in the Fields Campaign North Carolina Regional Coordinator, AFOP wrote 1 year ago: Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) in conjunction with Duke School of Divinity and other communit … more →

Tags: Emily Drakage, Child Labor, National Farmworker Awareness Week, NC FIELD, Poder Juvenil Campesino, Duke University, Student Action with Farmworkers

National Farmworker Awareness Week Begins

David Strauss, AFOP's Executive Director wrote 1 year ago: Today is the beginning of National Farmworker Awareness Week. This is a very special week for those … more →

Tags: Health & Safety Programs, AFOP, farmworker, Child Labor, Cesar Chavez, National Farmworker Awareness Week, Pesticides

Cause of the Day: Children In the Fields Campaign

todayindevelopment wrote 1 year ago: Started by the Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs in 1997, the Children in the Fields ca … more →

Tags: Central America, International Organizations/Causes, Education, Food Security, North America, Youth, Association of Farmworker Opportunity Programs, Child Labor, Agriculture

It’s Not Just the Farmers vs. the Consumers

Vashti Kelly, Children in the Fields Campaign Engagement Manager, AFOP wrote 1 year ago: Recently, I read an article about fairness in our food system, and whether defending the farmer or t … more →

Tags: living wage, fair food, poverty, Food Justice, farmworkers, farm fatalities


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