apublicationofSTUDENTACTIONWITHFARMWORKERS Winter 2008 VOL. 16 NO. 1

FROM THE GROUND UP

Annual Report September 2006- August 2007Student Action with Farmworkers

A 501(c)(3) non-profit organization whose mission is to bring students and farmworkers together to learn about each other's lives, share resources and skills, improve conditions for farmworkers, and build diverse coalitions working for social change.

Table of Contents

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Four: Five:

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Introduction

Levante

Sowing Seeds for Change

Into the Fields From the Ground Up

Finance Update

Donor Recognition Upcoming Events& Announcements

In 2007 SAF celebrated its 15th anniversary, a time marked by incredible victories and new milestones. After much hard work and persistence, we helped to pass changes to the NC Migrant Housing Act– a valuable first step in improving the living conditions of farmworkers in our state. We hosted a second class of fellows and greeted our 15th intern class. We also engaged over 20,000 people across the country during National Farmworker Awareness Week! Because of SAF,

85,000 farmworkers have received health, legal, education, & organizing support provided by SAF interns and fellows working with community organizations on the East Coast,

2500 migrant students have developed leadership skills through SAF-sponsored documentary projects, college tours, workshops, & retreats in rural North Carolina,

Over 450 college student interns & fellows have built solidarity with farmworkers, developed leadership skills, & gained critical awareness of social change & the farmworker movement,

And thousands of individuals have learned about farmworker justice thanks to SAF’s newsletters, website, & workshops.

We're proud of the legacy of social change we have helped to create. After 15 years of development, SAF continues to play an important and unique role in the farmworker movement. We look forward to future milestones and victories as we continue developing the next generation of farmworker acvocates!

In August 2007, SAF was featured on the cover of the Independent Weekly newspaper! Mosi Secret's article Farm Team is a wonderful testament to SAF’s impact in the community. He writes, "With a youthful idealism, the students say their eyes have been opened to injustice and they want to continue working with migrants. If the group's history is any indication, that will likely happen."

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Youth GroupSince 1997, SAF has impacted the lives of thousands of farmworker youth by hosting college visits, leadership trainings, and art projects throughout North Carolina. During the 2006-2007 year, SAF sought to make a focused impact on the lives of a small group of farmworker youth in eastern NC. In order to accomplish this new aim, SAF used participatory theater as a tool to educate and organize farmworker youth and members of their community.

After an intense outreach and recruitment effort, SAF selected 10 high school students from farmworking families to participate in the youth group. After an initial retreat, Levante participants came to bi-monthly trainings about popular theater and began to create an original theater performance based on their personal experiences in farm work. SAF collaborated with the Raleigh-based Justice Theater Project to develop the performance.

The project was a great success, and the group was able to give four performances: at the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry in Newton Grove, NC, at the Farmworker Institute in Durham, NC, and in two farmworker camps in Zebulon and Benson, NC. Through these performances, youth created a space for dialogue with other farmworkers to talk about safety and health in the fields, specifically around how to prevent and treat injuries, heat stroke, and pesticide exposure.

Throughout the program, the Migrant Youth Director shared information with Levante youth and their families about access to college and the DREAM act.

Coalition WorkSAF continues to facilitate the Adelante Education Coalition, which was formed in 2003 to address issues around access to higher education for migrant and Latino youth in NC. Current members include: Center for Participatory Change, Communities In Schools of NC, El Pueblo Inc., NC Justice Center, NC Latino Coalition, NC Society of Hispanic Professionals, and Blue Ribbon Mentor-Advocate Program. Advisory members include: College Foundation of NC, NC Center for International Understanding and NC Migrant Education Program.

During 2006-2007 Adelante expanded its work through education, new publications and research, and by continuing to build relationships with leaders of state education agencies. Adelante representatives led workshops at several statewide conferences, created a website and bilingual brochure, and surveyed educators in NC about the resources they need to better serve Latino students.

Adelante members also met with key representatives of the NC Community College System, the director of the Governor’s Hispanic/Latino Affairs office, the NC Learn and Earn program, and several local Community Colleges regarding enrollment of undocumented students. As a result of those meetings, Adelante was able to document promising practices used by several Community Colleges that admit undocumented students.

STUDENT ACTION

WITH FARMWORKERS

Through Project Levante, SAF organizes

farmworker youth to take action in their

communities and access higher education.

Through our partnership with the Adelante

Education Coalition, SAF advocates for

farmworker youth and holds NC educational

systems accountable to immigrant students.

photo by Rocío Rangel

2006-2007 STAFFAlix Blair

Documentary Fellow

Laxmi HaynesNational Student Organizer

Lupe HuitronInternship Coordinator

Tony MaciasAssistant Director

Rocío RangelMigrant Youth Director

Denise VanDeCruze Operations Manager

Melinda WigginsExecutive Director

2006-2007 BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Tom ArcuryEsteban Echeverria

Gerardo GranilloMary Lindsley

Patricia MoralesFawn Pattison, Chair

Aidil Ortiz-Collins, SecretaryCris Rivera, Treasurer

Gloria SanchezVicki Stocking

Alice TejadaApril Walton

Ramon Zepeda, Vice Chair

From the Ground Up EditorTony Macias- tmacias@duke.edu

Published by SAF | Copyright 2008

For more information or to submit articles to the newsletter, contact:

Project Levante

photo by Leah Russell

“I learned more in this summer experience than I could have ever imagined possible before. Now I think one of the most important things I can do is to spread the word.” – Leah Russell

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Sowing Seeds for Change

Fellowship ProgramSAF’s Sowing Seeds for Change Fellowship Program was a huge success in 2007. Fellows from New York, Pennyslvania, Virginia, and Tennessee took part in 2 intense trainings on farmworker issues, completed weekly reflective journals, and worked full-time at farmworker agencies. The fellows also completed documentary projects, interviewing farmworkers and co-workers and photographing their summer experiences. Because of their hard work and dedication, fellows reached over 1700 farmworkers during the summer.

Community ImpactLeah Russell, Rural & Migrant Ministry, NY Collected testimonies from farmworkers and community allies on their interactions with local police, and wrote a stirring report on the effects of local immigration enforcement in farmworking communities.

Walker Somerville, Telamon Corp., VA Held pesticide trainings, supported the in-house food bank, gave presentations about farmworkers, and led Telamon in building partnerships with local agencies, including police departments and the Department of Motor Vehicles.

Jorja Cummings, Southern Migrant Legal Services, TN Conducted much-needed outreach to farmworkers in the southern region, mapped camp locations with a GPS system, and communicated with clients in ongoing legal cases.

Maria Herrera, Comité de Apoyo a Trabajadores Agricolas (CATA), PA Outreached to mushroom workers to help with their workplace concerns, assisted with walk-ins, conducted research for internal projects, and provided language interpretation for workers.

SAF’s Sowing Seeds for Change Program assists campuses and communities to create student-labor alliances, organizes an annual fellowship on the East Coast, and coordinates SAF’s Alumni Association.

www.myspace.com/safuniteFacebook keyword: safistasYahooGroup: SAFalumni

Alumni Association: SAF developed several great new ways to keep in touch with our growing alumni network. SAF created a MySpace page, while alumni created a Facebook group where they can create profiles and stay

in touch with each other. As always, SAF kept in touch with alumni through monthly updates to our alumni email listserve.

SAF Solidarity DaysSAF’s Alumni Advisory Committee created Solidarity Days to enable SAF’s 450+ alumni and 2000+ supporters to be more connected and to provide collective support for farmworkers. SAF organized three opportunities to take part in service, advocacy and farm labor campaigns in 2006 and 2007. SAF’s regional representatives (active alumni now living throughout North America) helped encourage alumni to take part in these actions.

Taking Down the Clown | On October 27th and 28th, 2006, SAF called on alumni and supporters to take part in national actions against McDonald’s. SAFistas across the country held 13 delegations to McDonald’s restaurants in support of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers' Campaign for Fair Food.

Tools for Change | On February 20th, 2007, SAF held a garden tool drive to support a Community Garden Project addressing hunger among farmworkers in Sampson County, NC. Several individuals and church groups donated tools and gardening gear for this pilot project.

Dream Legislation | On July 20th, 2007, SAF held a national day of action in support of the DREAM Act. Alumni contacted their senators and representatives to encourage them to support immigrant students’ access to college.

Guatemala DelegationSAF teamed up with DC-based organization STITCH on a delegation to Guatemala where alumni learned about the impact of migration on sending communities, and gained a full perspective on the root causes of immigration. The November 18-26th, 2006, delegation took an in-depth look at the effects of corporate-led globalization on agricultural workers and unionists, and on the role US consumers play in this globalized economy. What we found there confirms what we've heard from activists and farmworkers in the US: Most farmworkers migrate out of necessity, not choice.

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Internship ProgramFor over 15 years, SAF’s Into the Fields Internship and Leadership Development Program has been changing the lives of students and farmworkers. In the summer of 2007, twenty-four students from diverse socio-economic and cultural backgrounds kept to this tradition as they worked alongside farmworkers in North and South Carolina.

During a week-long orientation at Warren Wilson College, students took part in participatory workshops on topics including: history of farmworkers in the Southeast, outreach strategies, language interpretation, and dismantling oppression. Students took action in solidarity with workers organizing at the Smithfield Packing Plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina. Students also came together for Mid-Summer and Final Retreats where they took part in reflections, problem-solving exercises, additional documentary and theater workshops, dismantling oppression trainings, campus organizing, and career planning workshops.

Individual farmworkers, sponsoring organizations and advocates all provided support and guidance to ITF interns. 2007 intern Anna Jensen writes, "To say that this summer changed my life is to present both a cliché and an understatement. This summer provided me with concrete evidence that my privilege is built on the backs of other people. This summer I met some of the people upon whose lives and work my comfortable existence depends. And something within me revolted, almost violently, and I came to the conclusion that I couldn't ever go another day pretending I didn't know that." SAF interns learned to honor and thank farmworkers for the work they do to sustain so many, and most importantly for allowing them to enter their lives.

2007 ITF Intern Accomplishments

Conducted outreach to approximately 7,000 farmworkers and

their families in NC & SC

Gave 137 health education presentations on Green Tobacco

Sickness, heat related illnesses, and pesticides to more than 1,500

farmworkers at labor camps and rural health clinics

Educated workers about their rights in the workplace

through legal placements

Supported workers' labor organizing efforts through Workers United of

Western NC & theNational Farm Worker Ministry

Raised awareness about farmworkers through presentations to over 700

community members in NC and SC

SAF’s Into the Fields Internship gives college students a

way to support farmworkers as they address health & safety

concerns, educational barriers, immigration issues,

& discrimination in the workplace. Since SAF’s inception

in 1992, over 450 college students have spent their summers working

directly with farmworkers & their families.

Levante TheaterSeven of SAF’s Into the Fields interns wrote and performed a new play Novelas, Noticias y Usted to inspire dialogue and action among farmworkers to address concerns about pesticides. Interns used popular theater techniques and participatory methods to encourage farmworkers to talk about health issues that concern them and ways to protect themselves from pesticide exposure. Students performed in 6 farm labor camps over the summer, reaching more than 150 workers through their efforts. SAF partnered with Wake County Human Services, Ahoskie Primary Care, the NC Farmworkers Project and Greene County Health Care to reach out to labor camps.

Into the Fields

photo by Alix Blair

Folklife DocumentarySeventeen Into the Fields interns created photo and audio projects documenting the educational aspirations of farmworkers in North and South Carolina. Students built relationships with individual farmworkers through the project, gaining access to their personal lives and hearing their hopes and dreams. They produced 11 in-depth projects in all, which have been presented in SAF’s newsletter and on our website as part of a multimedia documentary presentation created by SAF documentary fellow Alix Blair.

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As a social change organization, SAF informs & mobilizes students & community members to support justice for farmworkers. Through presentations, publications, actions, collaborations, & advocacy work, SAF engages, inspires & plays a leadership role in the farmworker movement.

Elizabeth Tomás, Salem College Henderson County Migrant Education ProgramElizabeth Arias, Boise State Latino Advocacy Coalition & Blue Ridge Community Health ServicesJonathan Luna, Abraham-Baldwin Workers United of Western NC Claire McLendon, Appalachian State Farmworker Health Program, Watauga Medical Center Oscar Vasquez, Fresno State GEAR UP NC & SAF Anna Jensen, UNC-Chapel Hill Pesticide Education Project Yesica Orozco, SUNY-Oneonta Wake County Human Services Luisa Baeza, CSU-Sacramento Wake County Human Services Maria Bañuelos, Lewis-Clark Piedmont Health Services Alice Wheet, USC-Columbia Piedmont Health Services Meghan Antol, Duke East Coast Migrant Head Start Project Eugenia Ojeda, Lewis-Clark NC Justice Center Hannah Johnston, Guilford College National Farm Worker Ministry Noemi Amezcua, Lewis-Clark NC Farmworker Health Program & National Farm Worker MinistryIsidro Diaz, Penn State Episcopal Farmworker Ministry Molly Sweetser, UNC-Chapel Hill NC Farmworkers Project Agmet C. Miguel, Fresno State NC Farmworkers Project Adriana Sanchez, Fresno State Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. Elizabeth Hayes-Lozada, Penn State Carolina Family Health Centers, Inc. Maribel Maldonado, Miami-Dade CC Greene County Health Care, Inc. Charlotte Sibley, Duke Greene County Health Care, Inc. Deborah Cramer, UNC-Chapel Hill SC Migrant Health ProgamHeriberto Martinez, MSU SC Legal Services Kendal Walters, UNC-Chapel Hill Beaufort-Jaspar-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services

Into the Fields Class of 2007 Interns & Sponsoring Organizations

Publications & TrainingsBetween September 2006 and August 2007, SAF staff and interns gave over 95 presentations to more than 3,500 students, farmworkers, and community groups. SAF staff kept our website fresh with frequent updates on current events, farmworker news, new publications, and ways to take action. Staff also sent out regular email updates and action alerts to a growing listserve of supporters around the country. We produced 3 print newsletters on Student Documentary, Advocacy and Policy Reform, and SAF Accomplishments.

CampaignsEach spring SAF coordinates Farmworker Awareness Week as a way for students to raise awareness about farmworkers on their campuses and in their communities throughout the US. Farmworker Awareness Week 2007 (March 25th to 31st) was the most successful in history, with over 60 sponsors, community organizations, and student groups planning 110+ events in 66 U.S. cities and 17 states, at 79 colleges, universities and high schools involving thousands of people! Farmworker Awareness Week 2007 was sponsored by the César E. Chávez

Foundation, Farmworker Advocacy Network, Farmworker Association of Florida, Farmworker Justice, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, National Farm Worker Ministry, Pesticide Action Network of North America, Student Farmworker Alliance, Student Labor Action Project, United Farm Workers, & United Food and Commercial Workers.

SAF supported several farmworker campaigns during the 2006-2007 fiscal year through our many programs and events

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From the Ground Upphoto by Tony Macias

photo by Tony Macias

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Finance ReportFrom September 1, 2006 through August 31, 2007, SAF received $539,398 in income: 44% from foundations, 33% from individuals, 16% from government, and 7% from sales, special events, and other income. Total expenses for 2006-2007 were $442,977. Program costs accounted for 89% of SAF’s expenses, while 7% went to administrative costs, and 4% to fundraising costs.

Expense Breakdown

Income Breakdown

Government (16%)

Individuals (33%)

Sales, events (7%)

During the 2006-2007 fiscal year, SAF received support from the following organizations, foundations, & agencies:Agricultural Resource Center, Bank of America, Beaufort-Jasper-Hampton Comprehensive Health Services, Blessed Sacrament Church, Blue Cross BlueShield Foundation of NC, Blue Ridge Community Health Services, Carolina Family Health Care, CATA, Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University, Chapel of the Cross, Church of Reconciliation, Church Women United in NC, Common Counsel Foundation, Conservation Fund, Design Corps, Donation Line, Duarte Auto Sales, Duke Chapel Fund, Duke Endowment, East Coast Migrant Head Start, Environmental Support Center, Episcopal Farmworker Ministry, Fishmonger's Seafood Restaurant, Fulfilling the Dream Fund, Gear Up NC, Geneseo Migrant Center, Glenn Mills & Fisher, Grassroots Press, Green Co. Health Care, Heifer International, Henderson County Public Schools, Hispanics In Philanthropy, Holy Infant Catholic Church, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Immaculate Conception Catholic Church, Immigrant's Legal Assistance Project, Kirk of Kildaire Presbyterian, Latino Advocacy Center, L.P. Brown Foundation, Legal Aid of NC- Farmworker Unit, Mary & Parrish Events, Mig Murphy Sistrom CPA, National Children's Resource Center, National Farm Worker Ministry, National HEP-CAMP Assc., NC Community Shares, NC Council of Churches, NC Farmworker Health Program, NC Farmworkers Project, NC Humanities Council, Ninth St. Bakery, Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, OpenSource Leadership Strategies Inc., Our Lady of Victory, Paul Green Foundation, Pesticide Environmental Trust Fund, Piedmont Health, Presbyterian Hunger Program, Public Interest Projects Inc., Puffin Foundation, Racial Justice Collaborative, Ristorante Piedmont, Rural & Migrant Ministry, SC Legal Services, SC Primary Health Care Association, Scudder & Hedrick, Shelley & Donald Rubin Foundation, Southeast Camera, Southern Migrant Legal Services, Southern Partners Fund, St. Paul's Episcopal Church, Strowd Roses Foundation, Telamon Corporation, The Lyric Foundation, Third Space Consulting, Triangle Community Foundation (Anna Louise Reynolds Fund, Charles E. & Alberta Dolan Fund, John & Otelia Stewart Endowment Fund, & Noël Family Fund), Umstead Realty, United Church of Christ, United Methodist Women, US Catholic Conference, Wake Co. Health & Human Services, Wake Forest University/NIEHS, Watauga Medical Center, Whole Foods of Durham & Raleigh, Workers United of Western NC, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation...& many student groups and departments that sponsored SAF interns and fellows.

Foundations (44%)

Programs (89%)

Administration (7%)Fundraising (4%)

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Thank you to the following individual donors for your support of SAF during the 2006-2007 fiscal year:

including: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers McDonald’s Campaign; Farm Labor Organizing Committee Project Solidarity, Santiago Cruz Memorial and Reynolds Tobacco Campaign; Student Labor Action Project National Student Labor Week of Action; and the United Food and Commerical Workers Justice @ Smithfield Campaign.

PartnershipsSAF continued its Farmworker Institute collaboration with the NC Council of Churches Farmworker Ministry Committee to raise awareness of farmworker justice among people of faith. SAF worked with partners to give 50 presentations to over 2,000 people, update and print a new speakers bureau, coordinate a statewide networking event for over 100 farmworker advocates, and produce 4 bilingual fact sheets on farmworker issues.

SAF continued its 3 year collaboration with the Center for Documentary Studies (CDS) titled Nuestras Historias/Nuestros Sueños. Through this project, SAF is working with CDS to document the educational aspirations and personal narratives of farmworkers and their families to be used in a bilingual publication, internet resources, and a traveling exhibit.

AdvocacySAF plays a leadership role in the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN), working through the coalition to increase enforcement of laws protecting farmworker housing, wage and hour, and pesticide safety in NC, influence policies around these key issues, and inform and involve farmworker leaders, student activists and community members in these policy advocacy campaigns.

In 2007 FAN worked with NC legislators to make changes to the Migrant Housing Act, which (among other accomplishments) will require employers to provide mattresses and alternative living arrangements to workers that live in uninhabitable housing. FAN members met with the US and NC Depts. of Labor, the Employment Security Commission, and the NC Dept. of Agriculture to educate them about farmworkers’ needs. FAN monitored the AgMart pesticide violation case and introduced the Agricultural Family Protection act to improve standards and enforcement of pesticide laws in NC. Finally, FAN members informed farmworkers about laws that protect them and got feedback about their pesticide, housing, and wage concerns.

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We want your ideas for possible direct aid, service, advocacy, and campaign support we can do to support farmworkers! SAF will call 3 solidarity days this year for you to stay involved with the movement no matter where you live.

share your ideas! farmworker_justice@yahoo.com

Solidarity Days

Top: SAF celebrated its 15th anniversary last year with a huge Quinceañera party, with nearly 200 people in attendance! Photo by Alix Blair Middle: Quinceañera Invitation Bottom: Padrinos each made a special donation in support of SAF for our Quinceañera Celebration, including Bes & Steve Baldwin, Julia Elsee, David Neal, Gita & Edd Gulati-Partee, Libby Manly, Easter Maynard & John Parker, NC Community Health Center Association, Steven Petrow (for Bruce Payne & Robert Coles), Thomas Arcury & Sara Quandt, Ilana Dubester & Gary Phillips, Lynn McKnight, Fawn Pattison & Grady McCallie, Tom Rankin, Charlie Thompson & Hope Shand, John Moses, Sheila Payne & Paul Ortiz, Chris Rivera & Beth Stringfield. Photo by Amelia Alexander

Thank You! On behalf of Student Action with Farmworkers,

to all the local businesses that donated as

Spring Planting Partners:

H 9th St BakeryH Duarte Auto SalesH Fishmonger's Seafood RestaurantH Grassroots PressH Mary & Parrish EventsH Mig Murphy Sistrom, CPA, PC H OpenSource Leadership StrategiesH Ristorante PiedmontH Rue ClerH Scudder and HedrickH Southeast CameraH Third Space ConsultingH Umstead Realty

Announcing the SAF 15th Anniversary Quinceañera Celebration!

more info at: www.saf-unite.org

Quinceañera Celebration!

mwiggins@duke.edu

919-660-3616

Quinceañera Celebration!15 Year Anniversary

s Padrino/sponsor opportunities available! s For more details, visit www.saf-unite.org

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RSVP (by August 3)

1317 W. Pettigrew St., Durham NChttp://www-cds.aas.duke.edu

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New Honors: In early 2007, SAF received the ncyt Spark! Outstanding Nonprofit to Work For Award & the Outstanding Adult Ally/Mentor for Young Non-profit Professionals Award went to Melinda Wiggins. Congratulations!

Into the Fields Internship | 2007

Application Deadline: February 15, 2008!

Sowing Seeds For Change FellowshipIn NY, PA, TN & VAApplications Due March 7, 2008