Category: Chapter 10

Alianza Nacional De Campesinas (National Alliance of Farmworker Women)  has a mission to unify the struggle to promote farm worker women’s leadership in a national movement to create a broader visibility and advocate for changes that ensure their human rights.

Their Bandana Project is a public awareness campaign aimed at addressing the issue of workplace sexual violence against migrant farmworker women in the United States. White bandanas are decorated and displayed as a symbol of the sexual exploitation of farmworker women because farmworker women have said that they use their clothes, including bandanas, to protect them from sexual harassment and assault in the workplace.

Campesinas Rising is led by Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, the first national farmworker women organization that fights for campesinas’ human rights. Campesinas Rising will raise awareness about and work towards eliminating violence faced by campesina women and girls, in the United States and globally.

Sources:

• A Radio Model: A Community Strategy to Address the Problems and needs of the Mexican American Women Farmworkers, By Maria Elena Trevino
• Injustice on Our Plates, Southern Poverty Law Center
• Cultivating Fear, Human Rights Watch
• Rape in the Fields, Frontline
• Working in Fear: Sexual Violence Against Farmworker Women literature review, Oxfam America