Open House - Farm Workers Co-op in Riverhead, NY

Saturday, June 26, 2021, 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Open House: Long Island Farmworkers Co-Operative

1-5PM
Amandala worker education Center
573 Roanoke Ave.
Riverhead, NY

Rural & Migrant Ministries invites us to an all-day event celebrating their programs and people. There will be live performances, workshops, community speakers, children's activities, cultural dance and more. Food will be available for purchase.  

Join Fr. Jesse and his family out East to celebrate the newly formed LI Farmworkers Co-op and learn more about RMM's important work with migrant farmworkers. I plan to arrive around 2PM and stay for an hour or so. JWL

Since 1981, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Inc., a statewide nonprofit, has stood proudly with rural
and migrant communities throughout New York State. We act to overcome the prejudices and
poverty that degrade and debilitate people within rural New York by building communities that
celebrate diversity, achieve true mutuality and fight for dignity and opportunity for all. Our
impact can be seen in the passage of the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act, which
overturned Jim Crow-era labor laws that sought to diminish and demean farmworkers, as well as
in the generations of rural leaders who have passed through our programs and into political and
organizational leadership roles, including for the Warren campaign and the Obama
administration.

We work with rural leaders, both young and older, who are committed to equality and
cooperative opportunity, especially within agricultural systems. We also support people in faith,
labor and university communities who seek to stand with rural leaders as allies. Ultimately, our
Mission, whether it is accomplished through our Worker Education Centers or our Youth
Empowerment Programs, is to help rural people, workers and youth to achieve lives of their own
imagining.

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