Our Summer School 2022 kick-off webinar is all about imagining better futures for and with farmworkers. Farmworkers make up the foundation of our food system, and yet are among some of the most exploited in our communities. Apart from bad working conditions, they often have precarious housing, food insecurity and, for those who are undocumented immigrants, face constant fear of deportation.
Though agricultural work has been deemed exempt from federal labor protections afforded to other industries, farmworkers have been coming together for decades to demand better working and living conditions. They have managed to shift and enact legislation in various states, have built powerful advocacy collectives to counter exploitation nationally, and found ways to support each other and even grow food that nourishes the earth and their spirit in addition to their bodies.
Join us for a conversation with Edgar Franks, of Familias Unidas por la Justicia Farmworker Union, as we chat about movement tools, building communities, and how to envision and then fight for better conditions. Franks is also co-founder of Cooperative Tierra y Libertad, a cooperative-run agroecological farm that provides for workers and their community. Parallel projects like these are critical in building food sovereignty movements!
SEATTLE, WA 98144-5175
