AMERICAN LEFT HISTORY

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

Tuesday, August 07, 2018

New popular education drawings make their debut at worker-to-worker education sessions on Fair Food farms along the East Coast!

CIW’s Oscar Otzoy (in blue shirt), with the help of two volunteers, leads a reflection on the right to safe transportation using a new Fair Food Program education drawing in Virginia last week. The drawing depicts an accident and the consequences of the use of unauthorized, unsafe vehicles for transporting workers to and from the fields.

Hundreds of workers educated in Virginia, Maryland and New Jersey on rights under the Fair Food Program…

Today, we bring you an update from the front lines of the Fair Food movement: A report from worker-to-worker education sessions in Virginia and Maryland where, just last week, the CIW Education Team debuted two brand-new drawings, one on the right to a safe work environment, and the other on the right to report abuse without fear of retaliation.

As a quick refresher, in 2015, the Fair Food Program headed north out of Florida and expanded to six East Coast states: Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey. Today, the Program is in the process of expanding into the fields of Texas, and the model itself has been replicated – with extraordinary success – on the dairy farms of Vermont by Migrant Justice. [...]

[...] In keeping with the CIW’s 25-year-old tradition of popular education, the team used last week’s trip to Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey to debut brand-new drawings, deployed to spark conversation and collective analysis during the sessions. The first new drawing (pictured below) touched on one of the central areas of workers’ rights under the Program: Health and safety on the job.