CarpoolMania & Transportation Alternatives
Keeping roadways clear and our minds at ease...
CarpoolMania is a forum for discussion on the logistics and benefits of carpooling and taking various modes of public transportation. These days there is a wide array of ways to get to and fro, but most of us (Americans anyway) stick to the convenience of our personal vehicle. This group is to educate individuals interested in stepping out of their car a ...learn more
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Created: Oct 04, 2007
Updated: Nov 21, 2009
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Living Wages | Youth Leadership | Youth Participation | Sustainable Livelihoods | Corporate Ethics | Fair Trade | Food Supply | Globalization Impacts | Global Food Supply and Sustainability | Worker Rights | Social Justice Education | Pesticides | Agricultural Policy | Refugees, Internally Displaced Persons, and Migrants | Human Rights and Civil Liberties | Human Trafficking and Slavery | Sustainable Agriculture | Youth Education and Empowerment | Responsible Business Practices | Human Rights Protection | Youth-led Organizations | Distributive and Economic Justice | Arts Activism
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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.
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.
