Volume 19 No. 2 - Student Action with Farmworkers

FROM
VOL.
19 NO.
2
THE
GROUND
UP
a publication of STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS
Summer 2011
Focus on
Labor Lore
The
Photo by Beatriz Cruz
2011 SAF interns and
fellows created a diverse
body of superb documentary projects,
featuring exciting collaborations with
workers and moving testimonies of
work in the fields. Through this year's
theme, we took an intimate look at
the stories of working conditions,
the meaning of farm work, and the
traditions and rituals associated
with agricultural work. Through this
project, we were able to record the
contributions that farmworkers make
to our communities, learn about
how work is changing as agricultural
production evolves, and enable
students and farmworkers to share
important stories and experiences.
INSIDE:
p.1 Don Pánfilo
p.2 Pánfilo's 1 Video Chat
p.3 Handmade: The Story of
st
Tio Mota
Echando la Mano: Labor
With & For Family
p.4 Thank-you to our
donors
p.5
p.7
Abelardo's Short
Chronicle
Thank-you to our
Funders
p.8 Program Updates,
Announcements
Photo by Beatriz Cruz
Don Pánfilo
by Maritza Valencia, 2011 SAF Intern
& Robyn Levine, 2011 SAF Fellow
“I’m
not ashamed to spill a
few tears for my children
because I’m so far from them. I know
they are with their mother, who has
been father and mother to them, but
even so I miss them greatly. And I
haven’t been able to go back, because
I can’t cross. I’ve said that I will go this
July and I’m going to do it... I hope that,
God willing, I’ll be able to make it across.”
In the Western part of North Carolina a solitary
man lives far from his family. This man has
sacrificed the opportunity to see his children
grow, to play with his sons, to be there on their
birthdays, because 13 years ago he decided
to enter the US without authorization.
Don Pánfilo entered the US in 1998, and on
his first and only atempt to cross the border at
Altar, Sonora, he was assaulted. “In the river
they held a knife here and put a pistol here.”
The risk of losing his life in crossing the border
had such a great impact on him that it is one
of the many reasons he doesn’t want to return
to Mexico and cross back.
Above: Collage from Pánfilo's life as a migrant
Since entering the US, Don Pánfilo has traveled worker Photo by Maritza Valencia Below: Pánfilo
to different states, including Georgia, Kentucky, walks to his trailer home in rural Western NC Photo
by anonymous worker at Panfilo's camp
Florida, South Carolina, and North Carolina.
In each state he worked different crops such as sweet potato, cantaloupe, cucumber,
tobacco, and in Christmas Trees, where he’s spent the last 7 years working. Once in
Georgia, he ran out of work and had to go searching in order to survive. Fortunately, he
found work picking cantaloupes- where for several weeks that was all they ate because
they had no money to buy anything else.
Now he works in NC in Christmas Trees. He told us that each season
...continued on p. 2
SAF is 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
improve
conditions
and skills,
for farmworkers, and build diverse
coalitions working for social change.
STAFF
Patricia Adams
Operations Manager
Nadeen Bir
Advocacy & Organizing Director
Bart Evans
Coalition Coordinator
Raúl Granados Gámez
Migrant Youth Director
Laxmi Haynes
Program Director
Rosalva Soto
Program Coordinator
Joanna Welborn
Assistant Director
Melinda Wiggins
Executive Director
BOARD OF
DIRECTORS
Tom Arcury
Ruben Campillo, Vice Chair
Ajamu Dillahunt
Ronald Garcia-Fogarty
Irene Godinez, Secretary
Mercedes Hernandez-Pelletier
Evan Hughes, Chair
Andrea Kells
Pedro Lasch
Mary Lindsley
Michelle Lozano Villegas
Courtney Reid-Eaton
Cris Rivera, Treasurer
Juvencio Rocha-Peralta
Alice Tejada
For more information or to submit
articles to the newsletter, contact:
Joanna Welborn
[email protected]
Vol. 19 #3 Guest Editor: Tony Macias
Published by SAF | Copyright 2011
STUDENT ACTION
WITH FARMWORKERS
1317 W. Pettigrew Street
Durham, NC 27705
(919) 660-3652
(919) 681-7600 (fax)
www.saf-unite.org
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FROM
THE GROUND UP
...Pánfilo, continued from p. 1
includes planting, pruning and shaping,
pesticide spraying, and at last, cutting.
“Here, the jobs are hard,” he said, especially
when he had to spray pesticides, “It is really
smelly, and you have to be very careful with
it... very dangerous."
For Don Pánfilo, the time he has spent in
the US has consisted of dedicating himself
only to work every day. Cleaning, cooking,
playing a little pool, resting, and talking with
friends and family on the phone are all he
does after working or on weekends. He has
a huge heart for helping the less fortunate,
especially the sick and children with chronic
illnesses. We were surprised to hear him
speak about the donations he made to St.
Jude’s Children’s Hospital.
Thirteen years ago, Don Pánfilo left his
6-year old daughter and his 13-year old son
behind.Now his only dream is to return next
July, to be once again with his family after so
many years. d
Pánfilo's First
Video Chat
by Robyn Levine, 2011 SAF Fellow
It’s
4:30 pm on a Sunday afternoon
when Maritza, Don Pánfilo, and
I enter a McDonald’s in Western NC. We
ignore the neon menus offering 99 cent
meals, brush past the line of customers,
and head to the patio to find the most
private table available. Today we’re using
the free wireless connection to allow Don
Pánfilo to video chat with his children
whom he has not seen in thirteen years.
Don Pánfilo paces nervously as Maritza
logs into her computer and asks us once
again if he will really be able to see his
children today. “Si ellos encontraron una
camara, si,” If they found a camera, then
yes, we reply. I breathe a sigh of relief
when I see Noemi, his daughter-in-law,
appear online.
An error message pops up on the screen,
and my heart sinks when I read that the
video connection failed because no camera
is attached to Noemi’s computer. We share
this information with Don Pánfilo, and
he mumbles, “Me pasan estas cosas.”
These things happen to me. I was struck
by his resignation, by how he almost
anticipated that yet another roadblock
would prevent him from seeing his children.
Don Pánfilo had shared that in the past,
the dangerous US-Mexican border region
and unreliable mail services had prevented
him from visiting home or sharing recent
photographs with his family. Today at
| Summer 2011
Above: Pánfilo preparing at work Below: Pánfilo a
photo of his children Photos by anonymous worker
at Panfilo's camp
McDonald’s, the absence of a twenty-dollar
web camera serves the same function.
Suddenly, we receive a message from Don
Pánfilo’s daughter. “¿Es Don Pánfilo en la
camisa rayada? No lo creo.” Is that Don
Pánfilo in the striped shirt? I don’t think it is.
I am thankful his family can see and hear
him through a one-way video chat, but I
also fight back tears as Maritza reads this
message to Don Pánfilo— just as he could
not recognize her in a photograph from
a few years earlier, she could not believe
that the man standing in front of the web
camera was her father.
As I cast my eyes down to give them the
most privacy possible, I felt like I was
intruding on a very intimate moment.
Don Pánfilo spoke directly to his children,
apologizing for not being there to watch
them grow up and explaining that he
sacrificed so that they could go to school.
He encouraged them to study the Bible,
focus on their education, and to care for
their loved ones. As he told them how
much he loved them, he began to cry.
I felt both angry and inspired on the car ride
back to Don Pánfilo’s trailer. I was outraged
at the absurdly unjust systems that keep
him from living in Mexico with his family,
but awed by their incredible resilience and
enduring love for each other. I knew that
farmworkers face harsh work conditions in
the fields, but Don Pánfilo’s story helped
me begin to understand the enormous
amount of emotional strength that farm
work requires. d
Handmade: The Story of Tio Mota
by Colton Foster & Joanna Arevalo, 2011 Into the Fields Interns
“My
name is Israel Mota
López. I was born in the
state of Veracruz, Mexico, in a small
town named Champilico Municipio
de Altotongo. I worked in agriculture
since I was 14 years old. Everything to
do with agriculture in Mexico, I know
about it.” Mr. Mota worked harvesting
various crops in Mexico, but six years
ago he immigrated to the United
States in search for a better life.
Tío Mota, as his co-workers call him,
arrived first in Florida, where every
January he starts the year picking
chilies, tomatoes, grapes, and
cucumbers. In late May, he migrates
to South Carolina where the tomato
season only lasts three to six weeks.
He then moves on to Virginia, where
he picks tomatoes until the end of
October. At the end of that season, he
returns to South Carolina for only three
weeks to pick more tomatoes. When
the work is completed, he returns to
Florida. “We don’t stop working for
even a day; we work all 364 days a
year. Here there are no Sundays or
Saturdays, it’s all the same here.”
The life of a migrant farmworker is not
easy. The work is dangerous and often
not well-paid. As Mr. Mota explains,
picking tomatoes takes a lot of work
and is a delicate process: “We pick
by the bucket and once it’s filled we
carry it to the truck where they pack
it in cardboard boxes… When we are
at work we don’t have partners. Each
person goes to his rows and we don’t
talk at all because you have to be very
attentive to the work.”
Besides working long hours in
dangerous conditions, farmworkers
are also forced to live in substandard
Echando la
Mano: Labor
With and For
Family
by Abigail Bissette, 2011
SAF Intern, Katie Cox
Shrader, and Nandini Kumar,
2011 SAF Fellows
housing conditions. Mr. Mota has
been rewarded for his good work
and now lives in a house outside the
regular camps, but he remembers how
difficult it was: “I lived in the camps for
4 years with the other workers, but it’s
really difficult because you sleep in a
crowded space with 7 or 8 people in
just one room.”
Because migrant farmworkers must
follow the crops, they often are only in
one place for a short amount of time.
Mr. Mota describes the difficulties and
obstacles this lifestyle presents: “When
we move, it affects us because you
don’t eat until you get to the new place
and also because we leave things
behind… It affects everything because
you have to make a home again
wherever you arrive.”
According to Tio Mota, transporation
has improved over the years, “Now
they treat us well- they gave us buses
to use. Beforehand we were inside of
trucks, shut in like cattle.”
When asked about other positive
changes that he had seen, Mr. Mota
states how conditions out in the
fields during the past two years have
improved. “Now bathrooms are in the
fields, but not before,” he says, “Before
we had to run to the woods to go to the
bathroom.”
Tio Mota works every day to pick the
crops that we buy in grocery stores. His
work is hard and tiring. He continues
in the fields because that is what he
learned to do since he was young,
wishing that everyone appreciated his
work a little more: “I wish people valued
farm work more because it’s beautiful,
and we all eat because of it.” d
Don
Santiago and his son, Juan
de Dios, work for a tobacco
farmer in North Carolina. The two men
are unusual from other guestworkers
because they come every year with
other members of their family. Santiago
was the first to come from Mexico to
work in the United States, with Juan
de Dios following soon after. Two
more sons and a son-in-law have since
followed.
Don Santiago describes a difficult
childhood due to his family’s poverty. All
Above: Israel Mota picking tomatoes in rural South
Carolina Photo by Petra Hernandez Gonalez, worker at
Israel's camp Below: SAF Intern Joanna Arevalo interviews Israel in his home Photo by Colton Foster
of the children had to work. He remembers
learning how to drive a plough at age twelve.
He has continued to work hard in Mexico
and the United States so that his children will
have a better life than he did. Looking back
on raising his ten children, he believes that
he was successful. Although his sons cannot
find work in their hometown in Mexico, they
have not suffered as much as their father to
support themselves and their families.
Just as Santiago’s father taught him how
to work in the fields, Juan says that he has
learned much of
...continued on p. 4
Summer 2011 |
FROM
THE GROUND UP
3
...Echando, continued from p. 3
what he knows about growing and
harvesting tobacco from his father.
“The most important thing I learned
from him was to work hard. Get my
family ahead. That’s what I learnedI’ve learned much about working
through him.” Santiago, in turn, hopes
he has passed on the values of being
a good worker to his children: “I
hope they will be good workers, that
they will be respected, and that they
respect others.”
Santiago says that when he told his
sons about work in the United States,
he told them to expect to work hard in
dirty, hot conditions. Though the work
is hard and the hours of rest often
boring, the two men have returned to
work at the same farm for more than
ten years. Both father and son share
the sentiment that working hard for
one’s family is necessary, and that as
men, they are the primary providers in
the family.
Above: Juan uses photos from magazines to inspire
his drawings Photo by Katie Cox Below: Juan
shows one of his drawings- this one of the Virgen of
Guadalupe Photo by Abigail Bissette
Even with the support of family
members in NC, both men talked
about the struggle of being away from
family in Mexico. They are able to
talk to loved ones on weekends and
sometimes once during the week.
Juan de Dios says that he even texts
his wife sometimes. To combat the
strain of being apart from his family
and the tedium of his daily routine,
Andrew Loyd
Andrew Smith
Angella Bellota
Angelo & Rosalie DeVito
Ann Warshaw & Kevin
Webb
Ann Watson
Ann Woodward
Anna Jeffries
Allen & Phyllis Verhey
Anna McCreight
Allen & Susan Spalt
Anna Walton
Allison Levine
Anna Watson Blair
Amanda Ciafone
Anna Wilson
Amanda Gutierrez
Annalise Lippmann
Amanda Vaughn
Anne & Douglas
Amber Greune
Shraader
Amelia & Craig Drake
Anne OBrien
Amelia Alexander
Anne Stringfield
Amelia Cline
Anthony & Mackenzi
Amy & David Rickard
Pergolotti
Amy Briceño
Antonio Vasquez
Amy Elizabeth Petrocy Anu Krishnan
Amy Malia Gellatly
April & Stefan Henry
Amy Trost
Gottschalk
Ana Alvarez
April Tacey-Dickinson
Ana Duncan Pardo
Arjay & Cathy Hinek
Ana Lucia Castro
Armando Rivera
Ana Maria Reichenbach Ashley Cartagena
Andrea Bazan
Attila Nemecz
Thank you to these
individuals for
supporting SAF
April-August 2011:
Adolfo Briceño
Adriana Chavela
Alaina Burr
Alan DuBois
Alec C Macauley
Alejandra Okie
Alejandro Pérez
Alek Deva
Alex Brito
Alex Deringer
Alex Poeter
Alexa Dilworth
Alexandra Castro
Alexandra Lightfoot &
Tom Kelley
Alexis Dennis
Alicia Jennifer Enriquez
Alicia Muñoz
Alina Wong
Alix Blair
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THE GROUND UP
| Summer 2011
Audrey Boyles
Aylwin Lo
Ben Buck
Beth Ebert Ostgaard
Beth Schultz
Betsy Barton &
Tobi Lippin
Betsy Crites
Bianca Perez
Bill Powers &
Sheva Farkas
Billy White
Blair & Zack Beasley
Blair Watson
Brendan Yorke
Brigid Scott
Britta Hansen
Calvin Allen
Cande Vazquez
Cara Surace
Carina Barnett-Loro
Carl May
Carol & Craig Barstow
Carol Brooke &
Chris Van Hasselt
Carolina Guarda
Caroline Mullis
Carolyn Corrie &
Robert Tannen
Juan draws pictures on cloth from
images he sees in magazines. His
drawings range from busty, beautiful
women to Aztec temples to images of
Our Lady of Guadalupe. He says he
learned to draw from watching artist
friends in Mexico. His favorite drawing
is one of his wife, which he left with her
in Mexico.
Although both men left family behind
in Mexico, Don Santiago and Juan
feel that they have gained a sense of
family among the men who live and
work with them picking tobacco. Don
Santiago describes getting along with
his co-workers and also struggling at
times with them during their six months
together. “Sometimes, the way family
always gets along, sometimes good,
sometimes bad, but that’s how it is
living together… there will always be
sad times, happy times, and times
when you know that that’s just life.”
Don Santiago closes by saying that
no matter where farmworkers are
from, they should all band together
to support each other. “The message
that I would give to those that listen
to this interview is that to me, it
doesn’t matter if you’re Mexican,
North American, from El Salvador, or
whatever country… we are in a place
that isn’t our country, and we should
work together, in unity, helping each
other out.” d
Carolyn Drake
Cecilia & Ronald Bailey
Cecilia Saloni
Celisa Steele
Cesar Javier Rivera
Channa Pickett
Charles & Dorothy Lee
Chase Foster & Ignacio
Adriasola
Chris & Amy Jo Johnson
Chris Butz
Chris Channell
Chris Hicks
Chris Sims & Kathleen
Colville
Christina Jones
Christina Olson
Christine Tucker
Christopher Paul
Chuy Escobar
Claire McCune
Clarence & Mary Barton
Claudia Horwitz
Clay Steinman
Clermont Fraser
Conrad Gonzales &
Ada Pilar Martin
Courtney Reid-Eaton
Craig Smith
Cris Rivera &
Beth Stringfield
Cynthia Anderson
Cynthia Schuler
Dan & Francesca Fried
Dan Dwyer
Dana Eure
Daniel Partridge
Daniel Tipton
Daniel Tubb
Daniel Vivas
David Anthony
David Blaney
David Eck
David Hinden
David Theurer
Dawn Imershein
Deb Wong
Debbie MacDonald
Deborah & Jonathan
Norton
Deborah Morris
Deborah Rosenstein
Denise Duffy
Derrick Miller
Desmond & Laurie Cutler
Diane Evia-Lanevi
Diedre Laurilliard
Don & Darlene Wells
Abelardo's
Short Chronicle
by Cecelia Hinek & Guadalupe Ferreyra, 2011 Into the Fields Interns
Abelardo
Perez is a
fieldworker
who was born in Michoacan in 1976.
He never went to school, because
his father died when he was young
and as the oldest, he needed to work
to support his family. He held many
different jobs since he was seventeen.
When he eventually left to find work in
the US, he left behind three children
and a wife. However, he’d heard
that he would be able to make four
times the amount of money in South
Carolina. After five years of work
stateside, he has been able to build
a new house for his family instead of
the small tin one they’d been living in.
He has also bought small pieces of
land so his family can begin to grow
an orchard in his absence. On top of
all of this, he has been able to send
his children to school to have the
opportunities that he never had.
Above: Abelardo stands outside of his temporary
housing Below: A photo of Abelardo Photos by
Guadalupe Ferreyra
Individual
Eric Bost
supporters, cont. Eric Mlyn
Donna Campbell
Dorothy Borden
Dothula Baron-Hall
Douglas Reichenbach
Dr. Belinda Chiu
Dr. David &
Nancy Griffith
Dr. Jacki Brinker
Dr. Maria Rosales
Drs. Kim & Rita
Pichardo Geisinger
Drupti P. Chauhan
Dustin Ingalls
Eileen Thorsos
Elin O'Hara Slavick
Elizabeth Moore
Ellen Gomez
Ellie Morris
Ely Zaslow
Emily Almasy
Emily Drakage
Emily Encina
Emily Friedman
Emily Kelly
Emily Schaffer
Emily Welborn
Erin Byrd
Erin Krauss
Erin Tackney
Esmeralda Santos
Eva Panjwani
Florence Siman
Frances Ansley & Jim
Sessions
Frank Bricio
Frank Sanchez
Fred & Palmar Ortmann
Gabi Trapenberg Torres
Gabriel Fernandez
Gail McCormick
Gan Murali
Gary & Raji Krishnan
Gene & Helen
Stephenson
Genna Cohen
Georgianna Barton
Gita & Anant Narayan
Gita & Edd Gulati-Partee
Glenn & Ann Hood
Glenn Fung
Grace Pilafian
Graig Meyer
Greg Evans
He has worked on US farms with
collards, tomatoes, cucumbers,
peaches, chilies, and other greens.
Abelardo tells us every kind of crop
has its drawbacks and advantages.
Greg Luce
Greg McClure
Greg Palmer
Gus Razo
Gustavo Gomez
Gwendolyn Blue
Hannah Popish
Herber López
Hetali Lodaya
Holly Fincke
Holly Hardin
Hong-An Truong
Hope Shand &
Charlie Thompson
Hugh Clark
Hugh Moore
Ilana Dubester &
Gary Phillips
Ilana Saraf &
James Tulsky
Irene Godinez
Isaak Krautwurst
Isabel Geffner
J. Gwen Shlichta
J.R. Simmons
Jack Holtzman
Jackie Jones
Jacky Hernandez
Jaime Balboa &
Todd Presner
James Miller
Jane & Adam Stein
Jane & Robert Brawley
Janeth Rodriguez
Jayda Rodriguez
JC Gomez
Jeanette Griggs
Jeanette Stokes
Jelissa Suarez
Jen Segnere
Jena Matzen &
Gregg Trahey
Jennifer McGovern
Jennifer Snead Williams
Jerry Barker
Jesalyn Keziah
Jessica Drake
Jessica Rosario Garcia
Jim & Ann Burke
Jim & Margot Johnson
Joanna & Matt Welborn
Joanna Perdomo
JoAnne & Esteban
de la Riva
Joel Lopez
John & Dianne Piparato
John Cameron Wulsin
John W. Moses Jr.
The peach (whichever one of ten
varieties that he knows of) does not
require you to crouch down in order
to work. Still, the peach fuzz irritates
the skin, leaving red marks, and
causes coughing and sometimes
allergic reactions. You pick cucumber
and pepper by crouching down, and
after eleven or twelve hours of hard
labor, causes severe back pain. The
tomato needs to be planted in a laborintensive way, and then stains clothes
and hands when it is harvested.
On the job, he and the other workers
exchange stories and jokes as they
work, or as they ride on the bus. He
told us one or two from the bus rides,
such as stories about the time he
almost saw Santa Claus, about how
to ward off demons, and stories about
lost treasure.
Abelardo dreams of going home to
his family and beginning to harvest his
orchard, to see his children after they
have grown up, and to see his home
again. For him, the orchard represents
the time that
...continued on p. 6
Jonathan Kirsch
Jonathon Waldes
José Ruiz Mijarez
Jose y Nereida Morales
Joseph Lee
Joseph Terrell
Josh Zaslow
Joyce Gamarra
Joyce Kiker
Judy Pellarin
Judy Roitman
Julia & Chester Bissette
Julia Elsee
Julia Smith
Julia Wang
Julie C. Wilson
Julie Hamra
Julie Mooney
Julie Odano
Julie Tomlin
Kadi Hodges
Karen Bograd
Karen Cirillo
Karen Dixon & Chris Lee
Karen Leasure
Karin Rivera López
Karin Shapiro
Katherine Watson
Kathryn Kevin
Summer 2011 |
FROM
Kathy & David Shonerd
Kathy Shea
Kathy Zaumseil
Katie Anderson
Katie Byerly
Katie Hyde
Katie Rainwater
Katie Warner
Katrina Lynn Holliday &
Khaled Rabbani
Keith Kocher
Kelly Peuquet
Kimmie Garner
Kirsten Mullen
Kit Cosgrove
Kris & Rajee Kumar
Lanae Ball
Lane Raskin
Langill & Elizabeth
Watson
Lanya S. Shapiro
Laura Ann Freeman
Laura Boutwell &
Laney McMurry
Laura Hinson
Laura Stroud
Laurel Ashton
Lauren Hart
Leah Allen
THE GROUND UP
5
...Abelardo, continued from p. 5
he has spent in the United States, and the
sacrifices that he has made in the name of
his family. “The years that I have been here
the age of the orchard, and
is the same as
after 6 years it will begin to produce. Next
year I will have a little bit of production
if I get there; I am already thinking of
going, this is all I can take.” He hopes to
go back at the end of this year, but says
the passage back is just as dangerous as
entering the United States. He says there
is a sense of fear that pervades parties,
soccer games, the walks he takes, and
his work: “when you come to this country
fear is always present and you can’t avoid
it. Fear is always there because you know
you are not in your country.”
Above: Worker pauses
for a water break
Photo by Beatriz Cruz
Top Right: Bus waits
for workers to end
their day in the field
Photo by Beatriz Cruz
Right: Farmworker at
his kitchen door. Photo
by Yesenia Leon
Much of the money he earns goes toward
his dream of having an avocado orchard.
Everyone in his area of Michoacan grows
avocadoes, and he hopes to grow them
as well so that, instead of working on
someone else’s farm, he can return as a
farm owner. The number of costs is close
to the number of gains, but he believes
that with the experience he has from the
United States, he can go into the avocado
business and succeed. d
Individual
supporters, cont.
Chaney
Marcelo Armas R
Margaret Guarin
Margaret Hayes
Leigh Bordley
Leslie & Angela Johns Margot Riemer
Maria Brantley
Leslie Vallejos
Maria Cardenas
Leti Graf
Libby & Nelson Smith Maria Connelly
Maria Enriquez
Lily Kirk
Linda & Louis Modica Maria Ikenberry
Marian Fragola
Linda Chupkowski
Mariela Elizabeth Cedeno
Lisa Bouland
Marietta Stewart
Lisa Brown
Marilyn Hartman
Lisa Clark
Marilyn Hays
Lisa Satterwhite
Marina Walman
Lishay Weis
Marisela Arechiga
Liz Veazey
Lori Fernald Khamala Marjorie Vestal
Marla Hyatt
Lori Glenn
Martha & Charles Murray
Louise Porter Martin
Martha GensemerLucy Harris
Ramirez
Luis Maciel
Marvell Adams
Lukas Trosman
Marway Qubti
Luke Hirst
Mary B Adams
Luke Smith
Mary Couch
Luke Walsh-Mellett
Mary Jo & Archie
Lupe Arce
Johnson
Lupe Huitron
Mary Lindsley
Lyndsey Beutin &
Matt & Lisa Pipeling
Vanessa Hamer
Matt & Megan
Lynn McKnight
Newell-Ching
M. Bree Kalb
Matthew Butler
Maceo Mayo III
Mauricio Castro
Mady Rivera
Mandy Hitchcock & Ed Maury Nussbaum
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FROM
THE GROUND UP
Max Krochmal
Maxine Lucas
Meg Goodhand
Mel Williams
Melanie Stratton Lopez
Melinda Greene
Melinda Wiggins &
Dave DeVito
Melissa Juniper
Mells Norton
Mercedes HernandezPelletier
Meredith Emmett
Micah Jacobsen
Michael Bacon
Michael Dalbec
Michele Bailey
Michelle Bedard
Michelle Lozano Villegas
Mig Murphy Sistrom
Molly Hemstreet
Molly Renda
Monica Chioke
Monica Palmeira
Mr & Mrs Jarvis
William Smith
Ms Hunter & Dr Kurtz
My-Linh Luong
Nadeen Bir
Natalie Burwell Ray
Natalie Lamela
Natasha & James Gore
Nathalie Ortiz Pate
Nathan & Meredith
Altshuler
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Nayely Perez-Huerta
Nicholas Faherty
Nick Wood
Nicole & Les Stewart
Nicole Jackson
Nora Mujica
Norberto Ospina
Omisade Billie
Burney-Scott
Oscar & Cecilia Ramirez
Ovik Banerjee
Pablo Escobar
Pam & Ward Pittman
Pam Pecchio
Parker & Susi Platt
Parker Grace
Parul, Nate & Noah Goetz
Patience Vanderbush
Patricia Haugen
Patsy & Russell Hilliard
Patti Smith
Paul Dosh & Barbara
Andrea Galdames
Paul Keene
Peter J. Rachleff
Peter Marlenga
Phil Kellerman
Pilar Rocha-Goldberg
Pirkko McNabb
R. Stern
Rachel Holtzman
Rachel Smith
Rachel Wright
Radha De
Rafael Rodriguez
Rakhee Devasthali
Ramey Mize
Ramon Zepeda
Raquel Aronhime
Raúl Granados Gámez
Raymond Eurquhart
Rebecca Bengal
Rebecca Carver
Rebecca Ewing
Rich, Andrea &
Naomi Kells
Richard & Jane Levy
Richard Hartwell
Richard Joanis
Rob Dilworth
Robert Reichenbach
Roberto Tijerina
Roland McReynolds
Ronald & Millie
Garcia-Fogarty
Rosalinda Landaverdy
Rosalva Soto
Ross Younger
Rossana Zetina-Yglesias
Ruben Campillo
Rupert Nacoste
Russell & Peggy Cockrell
Russell Jackson
Ruth Martin
Ryan Chaffee
Ryan White
Sal & Cindy Macias
Sam Hummel
Samantha Lubkin
Sammy Truong
Sandra & Mike
Brooks-Mathers
Sandra Rodriguez
Sara Moore
Sarah Baker
Sarah Evans
Sarah Green
Sarah Hart Fishburne &
Sam Shuford
Sarah Lansky
Sarah Lin Harden
Sarah Zipkin
Saumya Ayyagari
Scott Cooper
Seema Kakad
Servando Pérez
Seulky McInneshin
Shaoli Chaudhuri
Sharlene Simon
Shawn Pustay
Sheila Payne & Paul Ortiz
Shelby Hahn
Sheldon Gardner
Shelly & Maria Baum
Socorro HernandezHinek
Sonja Williams
Sonya J Hall
Sophia Gonzalez
Stacey D. Clarkson
Stacey Downs
Stephanie Triantifillou
Stephany Lazo
Steven Feldman
Steven Lownes
Individual
supporters, cont.
Steven Petrow
Stuart & Brenda
Barnes Jamieson
Sumner McCallie
Susan Barnett
Susan Davis
Susan Sachs &
Susan Sutton
Susan Sanford
Susan Suarez Webster
Susannah Hunter &
Luke Gilligan
Susanne & Chris Smith
Sydney Hartsell
Sylvia Becker &
Christopher Dreps
Tami Canale
Tammy Phillips
Tema Okun &
Thomas Stern
Teodoro Correa
Terri Gans
The Kaneb Family
The Nasman Family
Thomas Eich
Tom & Ellen Bacon
Tom Arcury &
Sara Quandt
Tom Constantine &
Esther Carrera
Tony Macias
Tracey Coppedge
Left: Workers get
on a bus at the
beginning of their
workday Photo by
Beatriz Cruz Right:
Farmworker at the
grocery store Photo
by Dashiell Huebner
Below: 3 Migrant
youth relaxing during
the workday. Photo
by Dulce Marín
Trent Johnson
Tricia Lingle
Tripp Tuttle
Troy & Wendy Livingston
Ulises Munoz
Uni Torres
Vaidyalinga Krisnaswamy
Valerie Tornini
Valerie Valore
Vent & Yyvonne Burr
Veronica Bustabad
Vicki Goddard
Victoria & Sebastian Gaviria
Vignette Ching
Virginia Moore
Wanda & Tye Hunter
Wanda K. Steele
Wells Tower
Will French
Will Morgan
Willem Van Eck
William & Garrie Kingsbury
William Higgins
William Vonk
Yuliya Lokhnygina
Zama Coursen-Neff
We want to recognize all
our donors. Donors who
gave $10 or more are listed
above. Please contact us at
[email protected] if you
were inadvertently omitted
or if the information above
is incorrect.
Thank you to
our funders
this year:
Thank you for
supporting us,
April - August, 2011
Anonymous Fund of the Triangle
Community Foundation
Arthur Carlsen Charitable Fund of the
Triangle Community Foundation
Association of Farmworker
Opportunity Programs
Bass Walter Fund of the Triangle
Community Foundation
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North
Carolina Foundation
Burt's Bees Greater
Good Foundation
DHHS, Migrant Health Branch
Duke Endowment
Environmental Protection Agency
Fund for Democratic Communities
General Commssion on Religion
and Race of the United
Methodist Church
GlaxoSmithKline IMPACT Awards
Fund of the Triangle Community
Foundation
Hispanics in Philanthropy
Insight Fund of the Triangle
Community Foundation
LP Brown Foundation
Lyric Foundation
National Institute of Health
NC Arts Council, a division of the
Department of Cultural Resources
NC Community Shares
NC Farmworker Health Program
NC Migrant Education Program
New World Foundation
Oxfam America
Presbyterian Hunger Program
Public Interest Projects, Inc. Fulfilling the Dream Fund
Southern Partners Fund
The Conservation Fund
The New World Foundation
Wake Forest University
School of Medicine
Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation
Appalachian Regional Healthcare System
Beaufort County School District
Beaufort-Jasper Comprehensive Health
Bruegger's Enterprises, Inc
Carolina Family Health Centers
Centro Unido Latino-Americano
Chapel of the Cross
Church of Reconciliation
Church Women United
County Motor Company
Eastern Shore Rural Health System, Inc.
Farmworker Unit Legal Aid of NC
First Presbyterian Church
Good Samaritan Clinic
Hispanic Student Association
Hummel Family Fund, Inc
Immaculate Conception Catholic Church
James and Laura Bazan
Charitable Gift Fund
Mi Gente
National HEP/CAMP Association
National Farm Worker Ministry
NC Farmworkers Project
NC Justice Center
Opensource Leadership Strategies Inc.
Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters
Piedmont Health Services, Inc.
Pullen Memorial Baptist Church
Research Triangle Institute
Revolution Prep
SC Primary Healthcare Association
SC Legal Services
Southern Migrant Legal Services
Tennessee Immigrant &
Refugee Rights Coalition
Toxic Free NC
UNC APPLES
UNIDOS
University of South Carolina
Educational Foundation
University of South Carolina
Latin American Studies Program Watts Street Baptist Church
Wake Tech Foundation
Summer 2011 |
FROM
THE GROUND UP
7
Program updates
From the Ground Up
SAF’s inaugural year of the Student
Organizing School yielded 10 trained
on-the-ground student organizers that
wrote articles, coordinated events,
and planned actions in support of
campaigns to strengthen farm labor laws,
organize tobacco workers, and increase
undocumented youth’s ability to access
higher education.
Into the Fields &
Sowing Seeds
for Change
In only ten weeks, the 30 SAF interns and
fellows impacted over 6,000 farmworkers
through increased health care, legal aid, and
education! The students also organized events
such as a soccer tournament, presented to
community groups, and published writings in
various newspapers and blogs.
Levante
Leadership
Institute
Top: Modified bus used to carry materials
and people on the farm Photo by Dulce Marín
Center: Farmworker holds a picture of family
he's brought to the states with him Photo by
Beatriz Cruz Bottom: Young migrant sits on his
porch. Photo by Rigoberto Pulido
During the 2010-11 program, farmworker
youth
participated
in
leadership
development, anti-oppression, college
prep, and theater trainings. They also
participated in a number of events
for Farmworker Awareness Week and
performed the play One in a Million about
child labor and access to education.
STUDENT ACTION WITH FARMWORKERS
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