The Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO is both a social movement and a labor union. Our immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but we are also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, our local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice. The FLOC vision emphasizes human rights as the standard and self-determination as the process for achieving these rights. We struggle for full justice for those who have been marginalized and exploited for the benefit of others, and we have sought to change the structures of society to enable these people a direct voice in their own conditions. (See About FLOC)
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A year ago, the day after Easter on April 9 2007, FLOC lost Santiago Rafael, an organizer who was viciously tortured and murdered in the union's offices in Mexico. Santiago's work was to help farmworkers going to work in the U.S. and to investigate and resolve problems with abuses in the recruiting systems and in employment conditions. In honor of Santiago's sacrifice and commitment to justice, the FLOC office in Mexico has been renamed the Santaigo Rafael Cruz Justice Center.
One year after the assassination of Santiago Rafael, the case is still unresolved!
ACTION: Remember Santiago!
Please write Mexican President Felip Calderón to call for an open and thorough investigation of the assassination of Santigo and for the guaranteed safety of FLOC staff and members in Mexico.
For more information and a sample letter to President Calderón, see:
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Santiago Rafael Cruz, PRESENTE!
FLOC IN MEXICO
FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez, Director of the Monterrey office Cástulo Bernavides Rogríguez, and Presidents of local Worker Committees Melitón Hernandez Hernandez and Cruz Díaz Montalvo, along with local officials, meet with FLOC members in a town in the mountains of San Luís Potosí. For more information on FLOC operations in Mexico, see: FLOC SUPPORTERS MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Detroit FLOC supporters discuss how their group can raise funds to help support the new FLOC campaign in N.C. Local support committees are organizing their own communities for the FLOC cause. They are talking with other support committees and working together in common actions. To learn more about how our supporters have made a critical difference to the successes of the FLOC movement, go to: |
FLOC FIGHTS FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS
In the last few years, we have seen efforts to create an "immigration crisis" through raids on undocumented workers, the Real ID act, denial of driver licenses to undocumented immigrants, state laws to punish employers who hire undocumented workers, and other "enforcement only" actions. As we have asked many times, who is behind the harsh treatment of immigrants? One hidden agenda is to force through a "guest worker" program that legally exploits immigrant labor and denies these workers their basic human rights, to the benefit of rich investors. Instead of helping to fix America's broken immigration system, "enforcement-only" plans only result in the increased misery of millions of the hardest working people in this country, as well as lower labor standards for the American working class in general. They do very little to reduce the immigrant population living in the country without legal status, because the underlying causes of immigrantion are not addressed... especially those policies created by the U.S. power elite to benefit the rich, such as the North American Free Trade Act. For more on the FLOC position on this issue, see: Also see Close to Slavery, a report by the Southern Poverty Law Center on "guest worker" programs. ACTION: Protest the proposed H2A rules! See: SHOW YOUR SOLIDARITY
FLOC President Baldemar Velásquez and the Aguila Negra band have released a new album, Justice Has No Boundaries! This album sets the background for the new campaign to organize farmworkers in North Carolina. One original song in particular, Urbano's Song, tells the story of a worker who came from Guerrero Mexico seeking to support his family, only to be forgotten and left to die in fields of North Carolina. You can show your involvement with the FLOC movement through this album and other items in the |
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There are many ways to raise resources to help the FLOC movement in the struggle for justice... all of which you can do! To learn more, go to:
Thank you for your support! It has always been the commitments and efforts of our supporters that have made our victories possible. As we continue the struggle for justice, we know we can count on you as we face new challenges and victories together.
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