California Farmworkers Are Rising Up In Protest This Week, Launching A Statewide Labor Strike To Oppose Recent Immigration Raids and The Trump Administration’s Broader Immigration Policies. From July 16 to 18, Workers Are Participating in “Dignity strike”Or Strike for DignityA GRASSROOTS-LED MOVEMENT CALLING FOR URGENT ACTION AND SOLIDARITY.
Planned by Undocummented pharmworkers and Local Organizers, The Strike Uges The Public To Boycott Grocery Stores During the Three-Day Protest In Support of Those Who Labor in The Fields-Own Invisibly and Without Recognition. Participants are demanding an end to ice raids and athlens, a direct pathowy to citizenship, and legal permanent protections for undoccupment immigrants living and working in the us
The Strike was formally announced at a press Conference on July 14 at the Placita Olvera in Los Angeles. Mexican-American Organization and Digital Creator Flor Martínez Zaragoza, A PROMINENT ADVOCATE FOR IMMIGRANT AND FARMWORKER RIGHTS, LED THE EVENT.
“This is our cry for justice. We’ve Harvested This Nation’s Food Through Fire, Floods, and A Pandemic,” Said One FarmWorker Organizer. “Now We’re Asking the People to Stand With Us In This Strike – To Boycott the Companies that exploit us and silence our voices. We Are Done Being Invisible.”
Through the Press Conference, Farmworkers and Community Members Shared Deeply Stories of Workplace Injuries, Wage Theft, Family Separation, and the Fear of Being Sports Evite Years of Paying Taxes and Contribution to The Economy. Many Emphasized The Emotional and Physical Toll of Living in Legal Limbo.
The Timing of the Strike Follows Growing Outrage after Recent Immigration Raid in Camarillo Led To The Death of Pharmorer Jaime Alanís Garcia, Who Fell from A Greenhouse Rouf While Fleeing Ice Agents. Days Before The Strike was Announced, Federal Judge in Los Angeles Issued A Temporary Order Blocking Ice from Behavior Raids Without Reasonable suspicion. GARCIA’S FAMILY HAS SINCE LAUNCHED TO GOFUNDME CAMPAIGN TO COVER MEDICAL AND FUNERAL COSTS, WRITING THAT HE “WAS NOT JUS A FARMWORKER” BUT “A HUMAN BEING WHO DESERVED DIGNITY.”
Organizers Say Dignity strike is the first undocumes- and digitally Led Labor Strike of its Kind. Over The Next Several Days, They are asking the public to spread awareness online and offline to support the strike’s goals and uplift the voices of worldKers who remumin at the margins of the us food system.
“Farmworkers Feed the Nation,” One Community Member Said. “It’s Time The Nation Showed Up for Them.”
