Farm workers in Wash. DC lobbying for immigration reform NOW. Join them virtually. More than 100 farm workers, students, and families of undocumented immigrants are in Washington DC, right now, lobbying members of Congress for a new immigration process with a path to citizenship for farm workers and the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently in the country. Can you join them virtually, by clicking here to send your representatives a message today?
This delegation is made up of farm workers, their children and DREAMers who have received temporary legal status, traveled from California, Washington, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, Arizona, Idaho, North Carolina, Ohio and Minnesota to lobby. Modesto, CA resident Leobardo Padilla is part of the delegation. He's been a farm worker for 30 years and has been mistreated and underpaid many of those years. He tells us not much has changed. “I’m very excited to participate in this event and fight for those co-workers and friends who feel they don’t have any rights.” The UFW has been working with key Republican and Democratic lawmakers, such as Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Marco Rubio (R-FL), and Orrin Hatch (R-UT), to ensure Congress approves the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act (AgJOBS)--or includes language that addresses farm workers' needs as part of any immigration reform legislation. The bill would give professional career farm workers presently in the U.S., who have been contributing to our country's economy, the right to earn legal status by continuing to work in agriculture. Pleasetell your representatives it is time for a new immigration process that includes a pathway to citizenship for the 11 million immigrants, including farm workers. This pathway should have provisions which encourage current skilled farm workers to remain in agriculture through making the path to permanent status briefer on condition that farm workers remain in agriculture. It also makes sure that farm workers can make at least the wages they are making today. http://action.ufw.org/immig413 After you take action please share this campaign with your friends and family. You can send them an e-mail, post this campaign on your Facebook and/or Twitter page byclicking here or going to http://action.ufw.org/page/m/3bed9c9d/145687a8/47f465dd/2b47656a/858196204/VEsHBw/ OUR E-MAIL ADDRESS HAS CHANGED.Please add our new email [email protected] to your safelist/address book so that our messages don’t get trapped in your spam filter. If you have questions about how to do this, drop us an e-mail. Check out our website at: www.ufw.org and keep up with the latest news. Check out the UFW's Social Networking pages. Click to visit our Facebook, YouTube, Twitter pages. Become our "friend" and follow us. If you received this message from a friend, you can sign up for the UFW List Serve. Privacy Policy United Farm Workers, P.O. Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, http://www.ufw.org [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:[email protected]?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
