Farm workers are harvesting broccolini in a Watsonville field. They cut it from the plant, toss it in their backpacks & dump it when they reach the end of the row. The backpack is heavy & uncomfortable. Workers often pad it or wear a weight belt to protect their back. #WeFeedYou image
Lorena is hard at work harvesting red apples in Wapato WA. She works piece rate and shares she earns $32 per 900 lb bin. She's been doing this work for 14 years. She shares it's hard work, but it feeds her family. #WeFeedYou image
Luis has harvested sweet potatoes for the last 6 years in Merced CA. It was dawn when he shared this photo and he had already been working for 3 hours. #WeFeedYou image
Add your name to support farm workers. If we are truly to endure mass deportation and the ruin of our federal agencies, nobody is more vulnerable than farm workers. We will continue our work to protect farm workers, but we can't do it alone. #WeFeedYou image
Palemon sent us this photo from where he was working harvesting the crop in strawberry fields in Oxnard, CA last Friday where the air quality was listed as poor. He said "This is what it looks like where we are working and how the smoke from the fire looks like." #WeFeedYou image
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Yolanda has been laboring in WA state's wine fields for 37+ years.She works long hours harvesting the crop and wonders why farm workers like herself aren't respected more when they are the ones who put food on the table of this country and also of the whole world. #WeFeedYou image
Maria has been harvesting strawberries for the last 10 years in Salinas, CA. She shares: We are at the end of the season. Harvesting now is extremely hard as there are less berries. I am very tired and my back hurts from walking bent over for all these months. #WeFeedYou image
Linda is picking chiles in Gilroy CA, even though she lives 90 minutes away in Madera CA. She works piece rate so has to work quickly to cover her gas, bills and other expenses. She worries that she is constantly changing jobs as most farm work is temprorary. #WeFeedYou image
Se ve! Se siente! El pueblo está presente! Si Se Puede con Kamala Harris! #vote You can see it! You can feel it! The people are here! Yes We Can with Kamala Harris! image