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Campesinas’ Reflections: Who struggled to produce your food?
Dolores Bustamante, Beatriz Gatica, and Hormis Bedolla, members the Alianza Nacional de Campesinas, shared their perspectives on their grassroots movement to promote the rights of female farmworkers. They spoke poignantly about the human rights abuses that form part of the everyday reality for female farmworkers, including sexual assault, domestic abuse, unfair payment practices, wrongful police detainment, and exposure to dangerous pesticides. They have taken a stand, as part of Mujeres Divinas, to bring women together to inspire and empower them.
Alianza de Campesinas’ mission is to unify the struggle to promote farmworker women’s leadership in a national movement to create a broader visibility and advocate for changes that ensure their human rights.
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas is committed to securing social, environmental, and economic justice; prevention of violence against women issues; equality, and healthier workplaces, homes and communities for themselves, their families and their communities. They are particularly concerned with ending workplace exploitation, including sexual harassment, against farmworker women and all farmworkers. In addition, they are concerned about the anti-immigrant sentiment that exists in the United States and believe that laws and policies must be passed and/or enforced to ensure that all of those who live and work in the United States, including farmworkers, are free of bullying, violence, harassment and discrimination.
Sponsored by: Harvard Food Law Society, La Alianza, WLA Venture Fund, ACS, & the Harvard Food Law and Policy Clinic