Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
Building Solidarity in NYC, December 29th
Farmworker Poverty, McDonald’s, and You - Building Solidarity in NYC
Join Marc Rodrigues of the Student-Farmworker Alliance for a presentation and discussion on the current state of Immokalee, Florida farm workers organizing, and their campaign to get justice from large retailers like McDonalds.
Where: 339 Lafayette St. buzzer #11 NYC (corner of Bleecker & Lafayette Sts, by the 7 train Bleeker street station, one block north of Houston).
When: 7:00 pm, Friday, December 29th
FREE. All Welcome.
Info: visit http://sfalliance.org/about.html
OR: e-mail fairfoodnyc(at)gmail.com and marc(at)sfalliance.org
SFA is a national network of students and youth organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields.
We work in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers based in Southwest Florida. Together we won the historic Taco Bell Boycott in 2005. SFA is a co-founder of the Alliance for Fair Food.
Marc Rodrigues (26, Immokalee, FL) hails from the city of Yonkers, New York. He is the son of Portuguese immigrants and a graduate of the City University of New York as well as the Labor Studies program at UMass. For a number of years Marc has organized with the Left Turn magazine/network as well as campus-based, anti-war and global justice movements, and he was an intern with the SFA in the Summer of ‘05. Marc likes watching movies, little kids, and wants to learn to play the Portuguese guitar. Contact Marc at marc(at)sfalliance.org
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Fair Food NYC is an independent group supporting the Coalition of the Immokalee Workers.
For more about their struggle, visit http://www.ciw-online.org.
Contact fairfoodnyc(at)gmail.com or visit http://www.fairfoodnyc.org for more information or to get involved.