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Farmworker Advocacy in North Carolina
Dear John,
In this week’s newsletter:
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Data-Informed
Advocacy
[#1]
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Partner
Highlight:
NC
Field
[#2]
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Have
you
signed
on?
LIFT
the
BAR
Act
Letter
[#3]
Webinar TODAY: Data-Informed Advocacy
Our friends at Community Science are sponsoring a webinar TODAY, Wednesday, November 15, at 2:00 pm ET on how data can inform our understanding of structural challenges to health and well-being for all. PIF Deputy Director Cheasty Anderson will present on how our coalition uses data to inform advocacy efforts, and KFF will share insights from their survey of immigrants, which drove a series of Los Angeles Times articles [[link removed]] .
Register for the Webinar [[link removed]]
Partner Highlight: NC FIELD
PIF has recently collaborated with active member NC Field to bring the voices of their community into PIF’s planning for the future. North Carolina Focus on Increasing Education, Leadership & Dignity, or NC FIELD, was founded in 2009, and has created a model for training farmworkers and farmworker youth to have a voice in the debates about issues that directly impact their lives and their families’ livelihoods.
NC FIELD’s core programs include capacity building; health access and equity programs; food distribution as an NC Food Bank partner; popular education projects that empower farmworkers to resist dangerous heat, pay-gouging, and criminal behaviors of labor contractors; and opportunities to learn how to utilize their agricultural knowledge base to generate income.
“PIF's support is crucial for the communities NC FIELD belongs to, and serves. This relationship expands our capacity to give voice to thousands of workers and their families as they struggle to feed us all. We believe our partnership with PIF is essential in bringing attention and resources to issues like the accessibility of life saving resources like healthy food, medicine, health care, climate change mitigation, and housing. We depend upon PIF to elevate the issues of migrant and seasonal farmworker families, who desperately need our collective power to ensure equitable access to the assets necessary to live happy, healthy lives,” said Yesenia Cuello, Executive Director of NC Field.
PIF is proud to partner with NC Field as they address the structural injustice that harms immigrant farmworkers. Recently, NC Field has shared a film that highlights food insecurity among those who are essential to grow food for us all.
Watch and Share their Moving Call for Change [[link removed]]
Check that You Signed: LIFT the BAR Act Sign on
Earlier this year, PIF launched a sign on letter for national, state and local organizations to show their support for the LIFT the BAR Act (HR. 4170/S. 2038). Hundreds of organizations joined us and signed the letter. We continue to accept sign ons on a rolling basis.
Has your organization already signed the letter? Check out the current list of organizational signatories. [[link removed]] Sign on if you haven’t already! We urge all PIF members to be on this letter.
As a reminder, the LIFT the BAR Act would:
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Restore
access
to
federal
public
benefits
for
lawfully
present
immigrants,
including
people
with
Lawful
Permanent
Resident
status
(green
card
holders),
Deferred
Action
for
Childhood
Arrivals
(DACA)
recipients,
special
immigrant
juveniles,
and
other
federally
authorized
non-citizens
residing
in
the
United
States;
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Eliminate
the
five-year
bar
for
Medicaid,
CHIP,
SNAP,
TANF,
and
SSI;
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Remove
arbitrary
barriers
by
ensuring
that
immigrants
with
sponsors
have
access
to
services
based
on
the
income
and
resources
that
are
actually
available
to
them;
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Remove
state
authority
to
impose
additional
restrictions
on
immigrants
who
qualify
for
benefits;
and
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Restore
flexibility
for
states
and
localities
to
provide
benefits
to
immigrants
with
their
own
funds.
A wide range of resources and backgrounders on the LIFT the BAR Act are available on our 5-Year Bar Resource page [[link removed]] .
Has Your Organization Signed On? [[link removed]]
Exclusive: Active Member Only Toolkits
Become an Active Member today to access our toolkits [[link removed]]
Visit our website at www.pifcoalition.org [[link removed]]
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