ALIANZA CAMPESINA FLORA NUEVA SA

USDA’s Farm Labor Stabilization Program - Know Your Rights and Resources Project

Alianza is happy to share that we have embarked on a new initiative, the Know Your Rights and Resources (KYRR) project under a cooperative agreement with USDA, as part of USDA’s Farm Labor Stabilization and Protection (FLSP) pilot program. The new USDA pilot addresses farm labor challenges, including improving working conditions for farmworkers. The KYRR component of the pilot will help ensure that all farmworkers within the FLSP program have access to accurate information and credible resource connections within their worksite communities.

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, in partnership with four of its member organizations is honored to receive a $48.2 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant Program to distribute relief funds to more than 64,000 farm and food workers.

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas is the first national women farmworkers’ organization in the U. S. created by current and former women farmworkers, along with women who hail from farmworker families.

Our mission is to unify the struggle to promote women farmworker’s leadership in a national movement to create broader visibility and advocate for changes that ensure their human rights.

As an organization by and for campesinas organizing their communities for labor standards that center worker health and safety, for immigrant and migrant justice, and for an end to gender-based violence, we work at the intersection of gender, migrant, labor, and climate justice. We work for sustainable and healthy communities where campesinas and their families can live well and thrive.

Check out this OpEd written by our Board President

Opinion: Few standards exist to protect farmworkers from the extreme heat that has only worsened because of climate change. That's got to change. Click here

The latest version of our Newsletter is out now! Click here to read about the critical work we have been doing the past couple of months.

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In sharing her community’s experiences, Mercedes highlights that she sees the urgent need for comprehensive immigration reform in order to protect the rights and well-being of agriculture and essential workers. Click here or on the image to read her full testimony.

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas brought together more than 130 campesinas in person and 30+ virtually for its fifth National Convivencia in Washington D.C. from April 15-18. Read more here. More information, including a full report, will be shared soon!

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Elizabeth Jaime’s story is a testament to the harsh realities faced by agricultural workers throughout the country. In sharing her experiences, she advocates for the protection of farmworkers’ health and safety and the urgent need to address the use of harmful substances in agriculture. Click here or on the image to read her full testimony.

‘El Pueblo Cuida Al Pueblo’ In June of 2021 Alianza was granted 8 million dollars by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA). With that funding we joined forces with 24 different organizations and groups to bring much needed information on the Covid-19 vaccine to our rural and farmworker communities across 20 states in the US and parts of Puerto Rico.

Alianza Nacional de Campesinas was launched in 2011 after many years of conversations with women farmworkers throughout the United States and Mexico. For years, women farmworkers and advocates organized and engaged in activities in their home states and communities, which were aimed at securing help and resources for women farmworkers on many issues, including domestic violence, sexual harassment, basic employment rights, healthcare, education, housing, immigration and other issues.  Over the years it became clear that it was necessary to unite these efforts at a national level in order to have the greatest impact possible. 

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