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Bandana Project

SAAM Highlight: The Bandana Project Campaign

March 21, 2011

posted in: CALCASA

Guest post from Monica Ramirez from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) Migrant farmworker women and other low wage immigrant women face sexual harassment and sexual violence in the workplace at alarming rates.  Despite the gravity of the problem, few women have ever come forward to seek justice for the wrongs committed against them.  These

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Female workers organize

March 5, 2010

posted in: Education

Recently, I came upon a story entitled, Women Workers Organizing Against Sexual Harassment, which featured a short video of female women who had organized against issues of sexual harassment at Guimarra Vineyards, where they are employed.  They were successful in gathering a petition of support signed by over 16,000 people and, as shown in the

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The Bandana Project: Raising Awareness about the Exploitation of Farmworker Women

August 27, 2009

posted in: Education

The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) in Montgomery, AL, launched the Bandana Project through their program Esperanza: The Immigrant Woman’s Legal Initiative. Esperanza, which means “hope” in Spanish, focuses on the issues of harassment and sexual assault of farmworker women. The National Initiative provides education on workplace rights to farmworking women and works to raise awareness of

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