NEW YORK FARMWORKERS MARCH FOR JUSTICE: April 29 - May 3, 2005

SIGN THE PETITION & PASS IT ON: Tell NY Senate Majority Leader, Joe Bruno, to End Farmworker Discrimination
Click here http://wwxxw.unionvoice.org/campaign/cita

Organized by CITA (Centro Independiente de Trabajadores Agricolas:
The Independent Farmworkers Center)

On Saturday April 30 farmworkers and allies will begin a 4-day march for justice from CITA's offices in Albion to demand passage of a bill for equal labor rights. Since the 1930s farmworkers have been excluded from the same rights and protections that most other workers take for granted such as a day of rest per week, overtime pay, disability insurance, and collective bargaining protections. The New York Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act would remove these exclusions and grant farmworkers the equality they deserve. 

April 29 - Vigil of Solidarity and Dinner
7:00 pm    St. Joseph's R.C. Church, 106 S. Main St., Albion
*Dinner is free, but donations will be accepted.
     
April 30 - Marching Albion to Brockport  (along Rt. 31)
9:00 am       Depart CITA's main offices, 158 Hamilton St. and Rt. 31 (1/2 mile west of Rt. 98)
Lunch stop    St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 78 South Main St., Holley
4:00 pm       Arrival rally at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, Main & State Sts., Brockport
 
May 1 -  Marching Brockport to Rochester  (along Rt. 104 to Lake Ave.)
9:00 am    Departing Haefner Park, Clarkson (Located just north of Route 104 on Route 19)
2:30 pm    Rally Stop at Senator Joe Robach's Office , 2300 W. Ridge Road, Greece
5:00 pm    Arrival rally at Downtown United Presbyterian Church/Spiritus Christi, 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester
 
May 2 - Marching Rochester to Sodus and Geneva
Rochester segment
8:45 am     Departing Downtown United Presbyterian Church/Spiritus Christi, 121 N. Fitzhugh St., Rochester
9:30 am     Rally at Rural Opportunities Inc., 400 East Ave., Rochester
Sodus segment
11:30 am   Departing Valero Gas Station, Corner of Pratt Rd. & Rt. 104, Sodus
12:45 pm   Lunch-time rally:  Church of the Epiphany, 105 West Main St., Sodus
Geneva segment
4:30 pm    Marching into Geneva:  Meeting location, to be determined.
6:00 pm    Dinner & Rally, First United Methodist Church, 340 Main St., Geneva
 
May 3 -  Albany 
Specific times and locations to be determined. Stay tuned.
Transportation from Rochester and along Thruway will be available. 

JOIN US!
 
For more details and info on how you can join us in one of the towns or along a segment of the march, contact

CITA at cita@verizon.net or 585-589-7640.  
 
Note:Transportation will be available for those who need transport back to vehicles left along the march route.
 
SIGN THE PETITION & PASS IT ON:
Tell NY Senate Majority Leader, Joe Bruno, to End Farmworker Discrimination
 
Please sign the online petition calling on Senator Bruno to end farmworker discrimination and to use his influence to bring the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act (FFLPA) to the Senate floor for a vote where a majority is in favor of its passage. Also please pass this petition on to friends and family. A delegation of farmworkers will hand the petition to Senator Bruno May 3rd in Albany.
 
Sign the online petition: http://www.unionvoice.org/campaign/cita

Petition reads:
I call on Senator Joseph Bruno, Majority Leader of the New York State Senate, to support the Farmworker Fair Labor Practices Act (FFLPA) and to use his influence to bring the bill to the Senate floor for a vote. The FFLPA would once and for all grant New York's farmworkers the same rights as other workers in the state such as a day of rest per week, disability insurance, overtime pay, and collective bargaining protections. It is both shameful and embarrassing that New York's farmworkers are treated as second-class workers, denied fundamental rights designed to protect their safety and well-being. There is no justification to delay and continue denying farmworkers the dignity and respect they and their families deserve.