Friday, June 20, 2014

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From http://cironline.org/blog/post/heres-look-3-plans-stop-rape-fields-6422


No. 1: Focus on contractors who provide growers with labor

"There’s a push right now in the California Legislature to ratchet up the accountability on the middlemen who provide growers with the seasonal workers they need to pick vegetables, prune orchards or thin vineyards."

No. 2: Get advocates directly into the field

"'You have to go to the people,' Segura said. 'You don’t wait for them to come to you, especially for those with high risk factors and barriers to accessing services, and farmworkers are very much that.'”

No. 3: Turn to drama

"A Spanish radio soap opera tells the harrowing story of Juana, a Washington state farmworker who starts a new job at a local orchard with her friend Lupe....The script is drawn in part from the experiences of 20 Yakima Valley female farmworkers who helped create a University of Washington-sponsored public health campaign."

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