TUPOCC/Farmworker Alliance Campaign!

***Looking for NLG representatives to participate in Student Farmworker Alliance Campaign***
Join an important campaign in solidarity with farmworkers and organize the NLG's role!!!

 

NLG Students,

 

We are pleased to announce an invitation to collaborate with Student Farmworker Alliance (SFA).  SFA is a national network of youth and students organizing in solidarity with farmworkers to eliminate sweatshop conditions and modern-day slavery in the fields.  SFA works in partnership with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, a membership-led organization of mostly Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian low-wage immigrant workers based in Southwest Florida. Together they won the historic Taco Bell Boycott in 2005.

 

Currently, SFA is organizing against McDonalds and its subsidiary, Chipotle.  They've come off an incredible Spring of organizing McDonald's Truth Tour: The Real Rights Tour hitting 17 major cities in the South and Midwest.

 

From Sept. 21-24, 2006, dozens of young organizers and activists from across the country will gather in Immokalee, Florida for three days of strategizing, skill-sharing, and focused discussion about the struggle for fair food and building a more just world: www.sfalliance.org/2006encuentro.html

 

SFA is interested in having NLG student representatives at the encuentro to strategize about the NLG's role in the McDonald's campaign.   SFA is looking for NLG members that c an attend the encuentro, have strong organizing skills and a commitment to SFA's mission, and are interested in organizing the NLG's role in the campaign during this upcoming year. The representatives will be responsible for travel expenses to and from Immokalee and the registration fee (sliding scale $50-150) which covers food, housing, and transportation to and from the airport.  Are you interested?  If so, please contact  both  Teague Briscoe MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.f502.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be teaguebriscoe@yahoo.com and Laura Raymond MailScanner has detected a possible fraud attempt from "us.f502.mail.yahoo.com" claiming to be studentorg@nlg.org as soon as possible.

 

Thanks!

 

Teague Briscoe, Student National Vice-President
Laura Raymond, National Student Organizer

TUPOCC Co-Chairs:
Renee Sanchez
Ranya Ghuma
Matt Nelson

http://www.nlg.org/TUPOCC/TUPOCChome.html