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Food Labor Justice: Protecting Rights and Building Worker Power
March 12, 2025 @ 11:00 am – 12:30 pm PDT
Co-sponsored by Funders for Regenerative Agriculture, Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees, and Health and Environmental Funders Network.
As the Trump administration escalates attacks on immigrant communities and weaponizes immigration enforcement at workplaces, frontline food system workers across the country face increasing threats to their safety, livelihoods, and labor rights. A new report from Food Chain Workers Alliance (FCWA) further underscores the necessity of building worker power across the food chain and demanding justice for the nearly 28 million food workers who are exploited by the current system.
Join us for a discussion with FCWA to hear frontline perspectives on responding to mass deportation threats while sustaining long-term organizing for justice and labor protections. FCWA members will discuss their rapid response work – from know-your-rights trainings to mutual aid – alongside long-term and successful campaigns for systemic change.
This session will provide funders with:
- Concrete ways to support both immediate protection and long-term systemic change
- An understanding of critical resource gaps and funding needs
- Opportunities to stay connected and updated
**Please note this webinar will be held in English and Spanish with interpretation for those who need it. This call will not be recorded. High-level notes and follow-up resources will be shared with all registrants afterward.
Organizations Represented
Alianza Agrícola – The Agricultural Alliance is one of the few organized, worker-founded and worker-led groups of undocumented immigrant farmworkers in New York State. We are membership-based, and all members are directly affected undocumented immigrants, mostly from Mexico, living and working in isolation and poverty on dairy farms in 5 counties of Western New York.
Migrant Justice – Our mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the immigrant farmworker community to organize for economic justice and human rights. We bring together community members to analyze shared problems and envision collective solutions. Through an ongoing investment in leadership development, Migrant Justice members deepen their skills and knowledge to organize for long-term, systemic change.
Community to Community Development – We believe that another world is possible and we are active participants with other self-determined people’s movements. We strive to reclaim our humanity by redefining power in order to end structural racism and all of its manifestations including settler colonialism, capitalism, and patriarchy in their external and internalized forms. Towards this end we: Confront racism in existing power structures, Empower under-represented peoples to have an equal voice in decision making processes, Develop cross-cultural awareness with formación, Restore justice to our food, land and cultural practices, Promote community relationships towards self-reliance, Work in solidarity with those that strive towards human rights for all races and genders, and Demand and demonstrate that the value of feminine intellect and leadership is recognized.
Street Vendor Project – The Street Vendor Project (SVP) is a membership-based organization of over 2,900 members who champion the rights of street vendors as small businesses to earn a living and contribute to the culture and life of New York City. We strive to expand vending as a viable, lawful employment option for immigrants and other entrepreneurs. We celebrate the long tradition of street vending in NYC and the diversity of cultures and backgrounds from which vendors come, noting that an estimated 95% of street vendors are immigrants who operate at the margins of the formal economy.
