Farm Workers Join Senators Kennedy and Feinstein
to Show Broad Support for AgJobs Immigration Reform
Farm worker leaders and farm workers nationwide
travel to D.C. to say “real fruit requires real people”
Farm workers and Senators Kennedy (D-MA) and Feinstein (D-CA) will hold a press conference at 11:30 AM Thursday in Russell 301 to show broad support for the AgJobs section of the immigration bill. Fifty farm workers from 15 states will discuss the need for reform at the event and will visit with Senate offices that have not supported AgJobs.
WHAT: Press conference in support of AgJobs immigration reform
WHEN: Thursday, June 21, 11:30 AM ET
WHERE: Russell Senate office building, room #301
WHO: Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA)
Senator Edward Kennedy (D-MA)
Arturo Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers, Keene, CA
Baldemar Velasquez, President, Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, Toledo, OH
Laura Rodriguez, Farm Workers Support Committee (CATA), Philadelphia