The Farm Labor Organizing Committee and the Campaign for Migrant Worker Justice will host their annual benefit concert this Friday, December 4th at 7pm through free live-stream (suggested donation $10 dollars) and in person (with very limited, socially distant seating) at the Sofia Quintero Arts and Cultural Center in Toledo, Ohio (1222 Broadway Street). Learn about the farm labor organizing struggle through traditional and original Mexican folk songs and narratives presented by FLOC president Baldemar Velasquez and the Aquila Negra Band. To attend in person, sponsor, or donate (this might be tax deductible), see the links below or call 419 243 3456. A live concert was being organized here in April.
Several years ago FLOC released two CDs of songs, mostly in Spanish; Justice Has No Borders is still available through the FLOC Shop ( www.floc.com/wordpress/floc-shop/ ) while Canciones Por La Causa can probably be found secondhand through Amazon.com, eBay.com, etc. FLOC also sells bumper stickers, logo caps, clothes, bags, water bottles, and art and can take direct donations.
www.floc.com/wordpress/annual-songs-for-justice-benefit-concert/
facebook.com/events/658450938154168
FLOC also has a petition to the US Department of Labor and Reynolds American, Inc., "Stop Corrupt H2A Labor Contractors," including in eastern North Carolina:
actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-corrupt-h2a-labor-contractors/
The Durham-based Triangle Friends of Farmworkers continues to meet monthly, through Zoom ( facebook.com/trianglefriendsoffarmworkers ).
There is also a CODEPINK petition against the assassination of Iranian physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh Friday (November 27th): www.codepink.org/mohsenfakhrizadeh There have been many suspected, actual, or attempted murders of Iranian scientists since 2007, especially during the Obama-Biden administration, and according to Wikipedia this is the first during the Trump administration, though the prime suspect seems to be Israel ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Iranian_nuclear_scientists ).
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