Farmworkers' Rights Amid & Beyond the Pandemic

Meant To Be Eaten

English - May 17, 2020 20:03 - 39 minutes - 36.6 MB - ★★★★ - 6 ratings
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A conversation with Lori Flores.

Stony Brook University associate professor history Lori Flores's research and writing focuses on Latino life, labor, and politics in the United States from the post-WWII era to the present day. We discuss farmworkers' rights amid (and beyond) the pandemic.

Link to the Food52 story we discuss here.

United Farm Workers https://ufw.org/

Coalition of Immokalee Workers https://ciw-online.org/

National Center for Farmworker Health http://www.ncfh.org/

Food Chain Workers Alliance http://foodchainworkers.org/

United Food and Commercial Workers Union http://www.ufcw.org/

An example of a food security initiative: No Us Without You (effort to feed undocumented restaurant workers in Los Angeles): https://www.nouswithoutyou.la/

An example of a community market: People's Market in Bloomington, Indiana: https://www.limestonepostmagazine.com/peoples-market-ethos-focuses-on-food-justice-mutual-aid/

Photo Courtesy of Lori Flores.