Our mission is to build the voice, capacity, and power of the migrant farmworker community and engage community partners to organize for economic justice and human rights. We gather the migrant farmworker community to discuss and analyze shared problems and envision collective solutions. Through this ongoing investment in leadership development, members deepen their skills in community education and organizing for long-term systemic change. From this basis our members set the agenda and evaluate progress and have prioritized building a movement to secure the fundamental human rights to: 1) Quality health care; 2) Dignified work and fair housing; 3) Freedom of movement and access to transportation; 4) Freedom from discrimination (Immigration Reform; No Police Profiling).
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