2012 NC Farmworker Institute

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The 2012 Farmworker Institute plenary session was called “Year in Review: Celebrating Our Accomplishments.” Click here to see the presentation and to check out pictures from the day. [...]

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Facts About NC Farmworkers

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Farmworkers play a vital role in cultivating the food we eat everyday, and North Carolina has one of the largest farmworker populations in the nation. Even though 85% of our fruits and vegetables are harvested by hand, farmworkers remain largely invisible.

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Our Forgotten Neighbors

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The Farmworker Advocacy Network worked with Professor Bruce Orenstein's video and social change class at Duke University to create this documentary about the Harvest of [...]

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Uprooted Innocence

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The Farmworker Advocacy Network worked with Professor Bruce Orenstein's video and social change class at Duke University to create this documentary about the Harvest of [...]

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Harvest of Shame

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Watch the entire original broadcast of one of the most celebrated documentaries of all time, 1960′s “Harvest of Shame,” in which Edward R. Murrow exposed the plight of America’s [...]

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