SUNDAY: FWD.us Partners with UFW to Host Cesar Chavez Screening and Discussion in San Francisco
(San Francisco, CA) – FWD.us and the United Farm Workers (UFW) will host a screening of Cesar Chavez on its opening weekend on Sunday, March 30th at 3:00 PM PT. Cesar Chavez highlights the incredible work of the legendary organizer and activist who made it his life’s work to advocate for the rights of immigrant farm workers in California and across the country. FWD.us is proud to partner with the UFW as members of a broad coalition working toward immigration reform; while our country’s broken immigration system fails every sector of the American economy and American families, we continue to call on Congress to take action to pass meaningful reforms in 2014.
Following the film, immigration reform advocates and labor and tech leaders will join in a panel discussion on the need for immigration reform.
WHO: Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers; panelist
Alison Pincus, Co-founder, One Kings Lane; panelist
Joe Green, Founder and President, FWD.us; panelist
Alida Garcia, Director of Coalitions and Policy, FWD.us; moderato
Ana Rosa Romero, Professional Farm Worker of 15 years & part of UFW negotiating
committee for Gerawan Farming; panelist
Additional panelists TBA
WHAT: Opening Weekend San Francisco Screening and Panel Discussion of Cesar Chavez
WHEN: Sunday, March 30, 2014
Screening: 3:00 PM PT
Panel: 4:30 PM PT
WHERE: AMC Metreon 16
135 4th St
#3000
San Francisco, CA 94103
NOTE: Due to space constraints, all reporters requesting to cover the event MUST RSVP to press@fwd.us no later than Friday, March 27th at 5 PM PT. Attendance is not guaranteed; all reporters receiving a credential will be notified via email.
About the United Farm Workers of America (UFW)
Founded in 1962 by Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers of America is the nation’s first successful and largest farm workers union currently active in 10 states. The UFW continues to organize in major agricultural industries across the nation. The UFW has been actively involved in pushing for comprehensive immigration reform through its ‘Con La Union de Campesinos Tendremos Papeles’ (With the United Farm Workers, we will get our papers) nationwide campaign for the past decade. Last year, the UFW and major grower associations negotiated the special agricultural provisions which were included in the Senate’s immigration reform bill passed in June. The provisions would allow farm workers legalize their status by continuing to work in agriculture. To learn more about the UFW, please visit: www.ufw.org.
FWD.us is an advocacy organization created to help organize the broader tech community to promote a bipartisan policy agenda – including comprehensive immigration reform, education reform, and support for scientific research – that will boost the knowledge economy to ensure more jobs, innovation and investment, now and in the future. You can learn more at www.fwd.us.