The Network was officially founded
in 1993 by three farmworkers groups to coordinate and support
their mutual work related to health and environmental issues.
Currently, 7 organizations comprise the Network. These organizations
are in the front line of the movement to stop the poisoning of
agricultural workers in the fields and to change environmental
and economic policy in agriculture.
Some of the goals of the Network are:
Improve farmworker safety, health, and economic well-being
Strengthen and build farmworker organizations and their communities
as a means of self-representation for workers and families
Support the sustainability and retainability of agriculture
Assure higher standards of safety and quality in agricultural
products for consumers
Make farmworkers more visible as a vital workforce for environmental
justice that contributes data, insight, and strategic action
to the environmental justice
(Excerpt above from a 1994 document)
Comité de Apoyo a los Trabajadores
Agrícolas
CATA
Nelson Carrasquillo
P.O. Box F
4 South Delsea Drive
Glassboro, NJ 08028
Tel. (609) 881-2507
Farm Worker Association of Florida
FWAF
Tirso Moreno
815 South Park Avenue
Apopka, FL 32703
Tel. (407) 886-5151
Confederación Nacional Campesina
CONFENACA
Luis Uréña
Apart ado Postal 18-A
C/Padre Ayala No. 15, esq. Madre Asunción
La Vega, República Dominicana
Tel. (809) 573-9505
Border Agricultural Workers Project
UTAF
Carlos Marentes
201 East Ninth Avenue
El Paso, Texas 79901
Tel. (915) 532-0921
Unión Sin Fronteras
USF
Ventura Gutiérrez
P.O. Box 66
722 Vine St.
Coachella, CA 92236
Tel. (619) 398-5183
Farm Labor Organizing Committee
FLOC
Baldemar Velásquez
507 S. St. Clair St.
Toledo, OH 43602
(419) 243-3456
Washington Farmworkers Union
WFU
Guillermo Nicasio, Jr.
P.O. Box 337
Granger, WA 98932
Tel. (509) 854-2442