First, as a brief refresher: Earlier this year, we got connected
with Catapult, the World Wide Web's premier crowdfunding site for women's
rights, curated by the likes of everyone from BeyĆ³nce Knowles to John Legend.
Big names aside -- at its core, this tool draws on the power of many people
coming together to affect change, much like the rest of the movement for Fair
Food. Earlier this summer, we launched the "Ensure dignity and respect for
farmworkers" project, an effort to raise $25,000 in 5 months to support a
new staff member at the Fair Food Standards Council, the essential third-party
monitoring body of the Fair Food Program.
Among the many changes taking place in Florida's fields under the
Fair Food Program, few are so transformative as the power women farmworkers now
have to end sexual violence -- to denounce harassmenet when it occurs, to have
their report be swiftly and thoroughly investigated, and to watch the offender
face losing his job. The Fair Food Standards Council plays a crucial role in
every step of that process, and as we look ahead to expanding the Program, we
will need all hands on deck to bring an end to sexual violence in Florida
tomatoes and beyond.
This month, we have a real opportunity to make the project take off:
it's being featured on Catapult's front page! If you haven't had a chance to
take a look at the project yet, make sure to head over to Catapult and join the dozens
of other members of the Fair Food Nation who have become supporters. There are
many ways to support the Catapult project. To name a few:
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This space is dedicated to the proposition that we need to know the history of the struggles on the left and of earlier progressive movements here and world-wide. If we can learn from the mistakes made in the past (as well as what went right) we can move forward in the future to create a more just and equitable society. We will be reviewing books, CDs, and movies we believe everyone needs to read, hear and look at as well as making commentary from time to time. Greg Green, site manager
Wednesday, July 16, 2014
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