FARMWORKER JUSTICE – KEY RESOURCES & READINGS
www.foodjustice.org
Community-to-Community/ Comidad a Comidad, based in Bellingham WA. Information, strategy, solidarity — Farmworker justice, programs, community building, participatory democracy, understanding oppression, food sovereignty and movement building.
http://nfwm.org/campaigns/support-familias-unidas-por-la-justicia/
Learn about Familias Unidas and their struggle for labor justice in WA. See the 10 minute film “Fruits of Justice” made in collaboration with Columbia Legal Services.
www.dbacon.igc.org
David Bacon, author and photo-documentarian, provides a valuable collection of readings, photographs, writings and resources on borders, migration, farmworkers and their families and transnational struggles for justice. Two key books are Illegal People: How Globalization Creates Migration and Criminalizes Immigrants, 2009, Beacon Press, and The Right to Stay Home: How US Policy Drives Mexican Migration, 2013, Beacon Press.
Also see David’s collaboration with www.farmworkerjustice.org/stories
http://georgetown.southseattle.edu/LERC/workersrightsmanual.aspx
WA State Workers’ Rights Manual, 2014, prepared by the WA State Labor & Education Research Center, South Seattle Community College. Pocket version and Binder versions. Available in 5 languages: English, Spanish, Chinese, Vietnamese, Somali. Free download or print copies ($7.50 for pocket version; $15.00 for binder)
www.depts.washington.edu/civilr/farmwk_intro.htm
Labor History Project at the University of Washington, special section: “Farmworkers in WA State”
www.pcun.org
Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Oregon). Immigrant Rights; Radio Movimiento. Report: “The Story of PCUN and the Farmworker movement in Oregon” (2001 and 2012, revised edition)
www.lelo.org
Legacy of Equality, Leadership & Organizing, Seattle.
Worker to Worker, Family Wage Project, Newsroom
www.farmworkermovement.org
Essays, media, oral histories, videos.
www.cagj.org/food-justice
Community Alliance for Global Justice/Food Justice Project, based in Seattle. FJ resources – news, organizations, readings, films.
www.splcenter.org/get-informed/publications/close-to-slavery-guestworker-programs-in-the-united-states/
“Close to Slavery” Guestworker Report – Southern Poverty Law Center
Agrarian Dreams: The Paradox of Organic Farming in California, Julie Guthman, 2014 (2nd ed), Univ California Press. Examines the environmental/labor divide in organics.
The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agriculture Dilemma, Angus Wright, 1990 (updated 2005), University of TX Press. (globalization, pesticides, farmworker health)
The Darjeeling Distinction: Labor & Justice on Fair Trade Tea Plantations in India, Sarah Besky, 2013, Univ CA Press (CA Studies in Food & Culture)
The Death of Ramon Gonzalez: The Modern Agriculture Dilemma, Angus Wright, 1990 (updated 2005), University of TX Press. (globalization, pesticides, farmworker health)
Fair Trade & Social Justice: Global Ethnographies, Mark Moberg & Sarah Lyon, 2010, NY University Press.
Food Movements Unite! Strategies to Transform our Food Systems, Eric Holt Gimenez (ed), 2011, Food First Books. (from food justice to the struggles of the landless workers’ movement in Brazil) This and other resources at www.foodfirst.org (forging food sovereignty with farmers and food workers)
Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the US, Seth Holmes, 2013, University of California Press. (Focused on Skagit Valley, Washington State)
Labor and the Locavore: The Making of a Comprehensive Food Ethic, 2013, Univ of CA Press. Explores the “hidden workforce” and how to shift alternative food movement to address workers’ concerns.
Memory, Community and Activism: Mexican Migration and Labor in the Pacific Northwest, Jerry Garcia & Gilberto Garcia (eds), 2005, Julian Samora Research Institute & Michigan State University Press. Chapters on regions, mural art, labor. Chapter 9 – profile of Rosalinda Guillen, PNW organizer, Community-to-Community.
Zapotec Science: Farming and Food in the North Sierra of Oaxaca, Roberto Gonzalez, 2001, University of Texas Press.
Prepared for Jose Gomez Farmworker Justice Day
The Evergreen State College, February 17, 2016