Tag: Maine

Coalition of Immokalee Workers > Maine

Northern sojourn builds CIW bonds with Maine small farmers, Vermont dairy workers…

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[hupso_hide][hupso title=".@CIW heads to VT, ME to build bonds with sm farmers & dairy workers!" url="https://ciw-online.org/"] [caption id="attachment_19905" align="aligncenter" width="550"] CIW member Santiago Perez rakes wild, low-bush blueberries in a small field in the Blue Hill peninsula of "Downeast" Maine during the CIW delegation's visit to the area last week. The delegation met with Maine family farmers to discuss the >> Read More
“Once we all get together, we’re unstoppable.”

“Once we all get together, we’re unstoppable.”

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Grist.org article highlights power, logic of alliance between farmworkers, family farmers! Farmers and farmworkers are most often portrayed as locked in mortal battle, their interests diametrically opposed, their conflict eternal and insoluble. And while that dynamic has driven some dramatic organizing struggles over the years -- from Delano, CA, to Immokalee, FL -- a new analysis of the relationship between the >> Read More