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Spring Break with Farmworker Women's Institute
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Alternative Spring Break: Students in Action
with New York’s Farmworkers
This program offers college students
the opportunity to travel throughout New York State, incorporating
experiential education through immersion and political action
with New York’s farmworking communities. Students closely
with farmworker allies, groups and individuals dedicated to
accompanying farmworkers in the struggle for equal rights
and respect of human dignity.
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Through active involvement, students consider
underlying questions of political and economic power respective
to farmworkers and agribusiness, while learning about NY’s
legislative process and the power of students standing together
in action with farmworkers and other allies. The intention
of the spring break program is to build a strong community
of student activists committed to sustained involvement in
the struggle for farmworker justice. Join us on this fun and
exciting road trip through New York State and grow to be a
student leader for change!
“Getting to know the legal,
health, legislative and most importantly the farmworker
perspective on this issue really moved and inspired me to
help. There is a lot of work to be done, and this trip helped
me see how I as an individual can stand with farmworkers
in their fight for justice.”
—Sarah Yannascoli, Cornell University
“I learned a lot about hope,
feeling it and seeing it. I am coming from this trip so
hopeful and that is empowering, something I didn’t
expect.”
—Sarah Ingraham, Vassar College
“On this trip I came face to
face with racism for the first time that I recognized. I
never knew there was this kind of prejudice and injustice
n 2003 in my home, upstate New York. My eyes are opened
to the realities of those who put food on our tables.”
—Dominic Frangillo, Cornell Univeristy
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