Created: Aug 21, 2005
Updated: Aug 20, 2007
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Student/Farmworker Alliance (a.k.a.: SFA)

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Activities: Activist, Educational, Networking, Research
Type: Network/ Coalition/ Collective
Scope: national
We Speak: English, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole
Website: www.sfalliance.org
Main Email: organize[at]sfalliance.org [at]
Contact Name: Meghan Cohorst
Contact Email: meghan [at] sfalliance.org
Phone: [239] 657-8311
Fax: [239] 657-5055
Headquarters: P.O. Box 603
Immokalee, Florida 34143
United States
Staff: 3
Local Time: Mon May 12 05:42:11

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SFA is a network of students and young community activists in solidarity with farmworkers as they struggle to gain fair wages and an end to sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields. We currently organize with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a community-based farmworker organization that won the national Taco Bell boycott. We approach our work through two interrelated initiatives:



Education - This initiative deals with raising awareness about the plight of farmworkers. Organizers lead various educational activities and create opportunities for students and farmworkers to come together in an exchange of knowledge and experience. Specifically, this initiative includes such activities as worker/student-led workshops, alternative spring breaks in farmworker communities, internships with farmworker organizations, film festivals, etc.



Action - Through education, organizers gradually build a larger base of activists whose knowledge of injustice in the fields of America leads them to act in solidarity with farmworkers. In turn, this base of supporters continues to educate their local communities about the reality of farm work. Students and youth then seek opportunities to work side-by-side with farmworkers towards the democratization of agricultural labor relations. This includes joining farmworker-led actions, organizing for better working and living conditions in farm work, engaging in research projects aimed at empowering farmworker communities, working towards policies of sweat-free cafeterias and restaurants on our campuses, etc.

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