Links to other organizations
fighting for farm worker rights
Invisible Odysseys is an art project which focuses on the lives of Mexican farmworkers in Vermont. The goal of the project is to communicate the often submerged experiences of immigration and ethnicity through material culture, connecting the common threads of past and present journeys. Conceived by B. Amore, artist and writer, and implemented in conjunction with Susannah McCandless, geographer, and Ethan Mitchell, independent scholar, the Invisible Odysseys project brought art materials to many of these Mexican farmworkers. Paints, wooden boxes, and mixed media materials were provided so that the workers, on their own, could engage in making three dimensional representations of their journeys. Kate Bass, from Juntos, a volunteer student organization at Middlebury College and Naomi Wolcott-MacCausland, a teacher with the Migrant Education program have been of invaluable aid in supporting the farmworkers throughout the process. You can download the PDF or order you own printed and bound copy.
The Open Door Clinic is a free clinic sponsored by the Community Health Services of Addison County, a local non-profit agency dedicated to insuring access to healthcare for all persons, regardless of financial circumstances. Care at the Open Door Clinic is provided by a rotating staff of volunteer healthcare providers, nurses, and community members who generously donate their time because they believe everyone is entitled to healthcare.
Amistad Project Provides Transportation Assistance to Farm Workers and Their Families living in Addison County- Volunteers Needed!!!
Juntos is a student volunteer organization that strives to meet the needs of the Latin American migrant worker population of Addison County, VT. The organization fosters relationships at both the individual and community level through social and educational programs.
Welcome to Vermont: English for Working and Living - Curriculum and teaching resources, written by Middlebury College Prof. Kathryn Kramer and her student RA, Sarah Ashby)
Central Vermont Migrant Farmworker Coalition (Montpelier)
Mission Statement: The Central Vermont Farmworkers Coalition is a non-profit group, flexibly organized to help overcome the challenges encountered by migrant farmworkers in our community and to address the related concerns of the farmers who employ them.
Our coalition meets monthly to inform one another on issues surrounding the farmer and farmworker community in Vermont. We remain up-to-date with related current events at the local, state and national levels, bringing critical questions and answers to participating members. As we expand this membership, we hope to capitalize on our strength in numbers to generate awareness, solidarity and positive action around this controversial issue. As a coalition, we hope to connect people and organizations sharing a common concern, while responding to local needs in our communities. Please join us!
Vermont Adult Learning (VAL) provides adults with essential skills education to further their educational, employment and personal goals in order to expand their options and capabilities in the family, community and workplace.
Vermont Refugee Resettlement Program helps refugees and immigrants gain personal independence and economic self-sufficiency, become contributing members of their new communities, and able participants in all aspects of American life.
The Vermont Migrant Education Identification and Recruitment Program finds and enrolls every migratory child and youth in the state who is under the age of 22 and who has moved with a family member, a guardian or independently on their own in order to seek or obtain temporary or seasonal work in qualifying agricultural or logging activities. All staff are bilingual and the program serves as a bridge connecting farm workers to various educational, community and health services. Eligible farm workers or children of farm workers may receive educational resources.
The Vermont Migrant Farmworker Solidarity Project seeks to collaborate with migrant farmworkers, farmers, and allies to build more socially and economically just, welcoming and responsive Vermont communities and food systems. Through a combination of direct support, community organizing and advocacy, community media, and popular education we aim to build bridges of mutual understanding and solidarity between Vermont communities and migrants’ communities. At the same time we seek to challenge US immigration, economic, and trade policies and practices that adversely affect farmworkers and family farmers on both sides of the border.
MALDEF - Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund. Founded in 1968, MALDEF is the nation’s leading Latino legal civil rights organization. Often described as the “law firm of the Latino community”, MALDEF promotes social change through advocacy, communications, community education, and litigation in the areas of education, employment, immigrant rights, and political access.
MIRA - The Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition is the only organization in Massachusetts that brings together groups serving immigrants and refugees from many parts of the world, of various nationalities, races, and ethnicities. MIRA is a dynamic, multi-ethnic, multi-racial coalition that actively involves hundreds of grassroots immigrant organizations, human services agencies, legal service providers, religious groups, and human rights groups in cooperative efforts to improve the lives of immigrants and refugees.
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Border Angels, founded by Enrique Morones in 1986, is a non-profit organization supporting humanity. The organization consists of extraordinary volunteers who want to stop unnecessary deaths of individuals traveling through the Imperial Valley desert areas and the mountain areas surrounding San Diego County, as well as the areas located around the United States and Mexican border. The high percentage of unnecessary deaths have been results of extreme heat and cold weather conditions, in addition some have sadly been the results of racial-discrimination crimes.
Vermont Human Rights Commission - Its mission is to promote full civil and human rights in Vermont. The Commission protects people from unlawful discrimination in housing, state government employment, and public accommodations.* It pursues its mission by:
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•Enforcing laws
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•Mediating disputes
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•Educating the public
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•Providing information and referrals
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•Advancing effective public policies on human rights
* A place of public accommodation is any establishment, such as a school, restaurant, office, or store that offers facilities, goods or services to the general public.
New Neighbors Victim Outreach Project - The goal of this project is to create linguistically and culturally accessible information about crime victims' rights and services for Vermont's refugee and immigrant populations. This includes information about their rights as victims of crime in the U.S., basic immigration law, immigration remedies available to victims of particular crimes, and a guide to local and national resources and services.
