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		The mission of the National Spinal Cord Injury Association is to enable people with SCI to make choices and take actions to achieve their highest level of independence and personal fulfillment.
		A partnership of 14 National Associations whose common goal is to facilitate active living opportunities for Canadians with a disability.
		Help farm families and farm workers with disabilities continue farming more efficiently and safely.
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	List of NATLFED entities - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Eastern Farm Workers Association (Bellport, Lyons, Riverhead, Sodus, Syracuse, NY)
		National Equal Justice Association (San Diego, San Francisco, CA; New York, Riverhead, NY) This entity is also a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization.
		Eastern Service Workers Association (Boston, Roxbury, MA; Atlantic City, New Brunswick, South Amboy, Pleasantville, Somerset, Trenton, NJ; Philadelphia, PA; Rochester, NY)
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_NATLFED_entities (467 words)

	Important Article in East Hamtpon Star on Natlfed, 9/18/86
		The links between Eastern Farm Workers, which has its offices in Bellport and Riverhead, and the National Labor Federation, are not explicitly explained by organizers.
		In an article in the Star several weeks ago, critics of the Farm Workers disputed the group's membership figures (upwards of 6,000), countered claims that it provides medical services and legal assistance to farmworkers, and criticized its refusal to release financial statements.
		It was also noted that the group is one of 41 "mutual benefit associations" of the National Labor Federation, an organization boasting 635,000 members which reputedly represents the disenfranchised and chronically poor.
	www.freedomofmind.com /resourcecenter/groups/n/natlfed/bestberliner.htm (4217 words)

	Eastern Farm Workers Association - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Since farm workers are denied the protection of the National Labor Relations Act, EFWA further saw no reason farm workers or any association of such an unprotected work force should be governed by any duties the act imposes.
		The Eastern Farm Workers Association (EFWA) is a community-based membership association, primarily enrolling farm workers in the Long Island and upstate regions of New York.
		EFWA emerged after several Long Island organizations contacted the New York City office of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee in 1971.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Eastern_Farm_Workers_Association (2341 words)

	American Passages - Unit 12. Migrant Struggle: Context Activities
		Chavez organized the National Farm Workers Association in the 1960s to help migrant farm workers gain rights and better working conditions and pay.
		As part of the farm workers movement, the Chicano movement was, and is, a force for socio-economic and cultural change in the Mexican American community.
		Influential industry leaders and large corporate farm owners went to great lengths to prevent or disrupt union activity through the jailing of leaders, the hiring of replacement workers, intimidation, and other legal and illegal means.
	www.learner.org /amerpass/unit12/context_activ-3.html (1622 words)

	Cadre Or Cult? Gino Perente, NATLFED & the Provisional Party
		The National Labor Federation began with the founding of the Eastern Farm Workers Association on Long Island, NY, in 1972.
		These "mass-based" associations are purportedly organized in the interest of the "unrecognized strata" of the labor force such as farmworkers, domestic workers, attendant care workers, and temporary workers.
		The Association was founded by Perente and other organizers who apparently were unable or unwilling to work with Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
	www.ex-iwp.org /docs/1984/Cult_or_Cadre.htm (9254 words)

	Correction: Obituary Omitted Key Facts On Labor Organizer
		Berlet said the group called itself the National Labor Federation, had many subsidiaries, including the Eastern Farm Workers Association, and operated in New York, Massachusetts and California.
		Perente-Ramos, who died at age 59 on Saturday at his home in Brooklyn, founded the Eastern Farm Workers Association on Long Island in the early 1970's, led migrant workers in a strike against potato processors in Suffolk County in 1972 and helped organize workers and boycotts for the United Farm Workers.
		Perente-Ramos had earlier helped to organize miners, machinists and other workers in Texas and California and characterized him as a close associate of Cesar Chavez and an innovative leader who organized cadres of volunteers to aid the poor.
	www.rickross.com /reference/natlfed/natlfed2.html (431 words)

	Black Panther Memorial : SF Bay Area Indymedia
		Other front groups include the California Homemakers Association, Western Service Workers Association, Western Farm Workers Association, and National Equal Justice Association.
		NATLFED fronts, using innocent names like "Western Service Workers Association," "Eastern Farm Workers Association," "Coalition of Concerned Medical Professionals," and "Women's Press Collective," lure liberal volunteers from communities and colleges into brainwashed separation from their families, jobs, and friends."
		Their status as unrecognized workers makes them more open to abuse by the government and corporate america.
	www.indybay.org /news/2003/03/1580855_comment.php (2761 words)

	Holidays information from Answerbag
		Chávez launched the United Farm Workers union in 1962, an organization originally called the National Farm Workers Association.
		It is also 1880s workers demanding humane treatment; it is men and women around the world marching in solidarity against the factory owners who would have them work all day, every day but Sunday; it is anarchists, socialists, and leftists of every kind working together within the labor movement.
		This association of May Day with radicalism is ultimately what led to it being downplayed in contemporary accounts, while Labor Day remains as a state-sanctioned holiday.
	www.answerbag.com /c_view.php/860 (7219 words)

	Craig P. Schlanger: Syracuse New York Attorney, Criminal Defense, DUI/DWI, Drunk Driving
		Biography: New York Civil Liberties Union, Central New York Chapter (President, 1994-1995; Legal Policy and Action Committee, 1978; Volunteer Attorney); Small Claims Court Arbitrator: Syracuse City Court; Eastern Farm Workers Association, Syracuse, New York.
		New York State Defenders Association; National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers.
		Member: Onondaga County and New York State Bar Associations; New York State Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (Board of Directors, 2000).
	www.syracusecriminallaw.com /bio.html (162 words)

	NOW with Bill Moyers. Politics & Economy. On the Border. Migrant Labor in United States PBS
		In 1962 he established the National Farm Workers Association (renamed the United Farmworkers Union in 1972).
		The plight of America's farm workers entered the country's consciousness with a bang in 1960.
		The United Farm Workers union (UFW) estimates that the number may be closer to 800,000.
	www.pbs.org /now/politics/migrants.html (162 words)

	United Farm Workers of America -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		(UFW), U.S. labor union; founded 1962 as National Farm Workers Association by César Chavez; merged with AFL-CIO 1966; re-formed with current name 1971 to achieve collective-bargaining rights for U.S. farm workers; seeks to give workers dignity and improve wages and working and safety conditions of migrant farm workers; espouses nonviolence; educates members in political...
		March 31, 1927, Yuma, Ariz.--found dead April 23, 1993, San Luis, Ariz.), was an inspirational Hispanic leader who quit his job in the fields to organize poorly paid Mexican-American migrant farm labourers into the nation's first successful union of agricultural workers, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), the...
		Background of the UFW and information on the struggle of the union to achieve justice for Mexican-American farm workers in the 1960s and later.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9339145 (854 words)

	Sons of Zapata 2
		The workers in Rio Grande voted to join their Independent Workers Association with the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chavez.
		The workers decided to make a pilgrimage march, as had been done in California, to dramatize the state and nations the conditions and wages and suffering that farm workers must endure, and to rally support for the cause among other farm workers and sympathizers.
		Now all farm workers were united in one strong union, and the movement was gaining strength throughout the nation.
	www.farmworkers.org /sonsofz2.html (769 words)

	Handbook of Texas Online: UNITED FARM WORKERS UNION
		The United Farm Workers Union was organized in Texas in 1966 as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, a union of the National Farm Workers Association and the Filipino Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee.
		In 1975, the same year that Harrington assumed the leadership in Texas, the union split when Antonio Ordendain, who had worked for the UFW in California and Texas, left to form a separate association, the Texas Farm Workers Union.
		In 1972 the committee received an independent charter from the AFL-CIO and became the United Farm Workers, AFL-CIO.
	www.tsha.utexas.edu /handbook/online/articles/UU/ocu2.html (607 words)

	walter p. reuther library/la causa newsletter article
		After failing to convince the CSO to organize farm labor, Chavez resigned and moved his family to Delano, California where he founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) in 1962.
		He brought the concept of secret union elections for farm workers to the national consciousness, something most trade Unionists took for granted.
		While he continued the boycott against grapes and lettuce, Chavez and the UFW campaigned against the use of pesticides where farm workers labored, child labor, alien laborers, substandard housing, and one of the most hated foes of all, the back-breaking short-handled hoe.
	www.reuther.wayne.edu /ufw-article.html (809 words)

	Today in History: August 22
		The UFWOC was established when two smaller organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), both in the middle of strikes against certain California grape growers, merged and moved under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO.
		José Flores, two Mexican labor camp workers during that time, discuss topics such as discrimination against Mexican workers, labor issues, and the beginnings of the effort to organize migrant farm workers into unions, among other more general topics about life in the labor camps.
		scrapbook with several articles on the nascent movement to organize farm workers.
	memory.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug22.html (1311 words)

	United Farm Workers - dKosopedia
		The National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) was started by a young Chicano named Cesar Chavez in 1962.
		The small but energetic National Farm Labor Union, led by dynamic organizer Ernesto Galarza, found its efforts to create a lasting California farmworkers union in the 1940's and 50's stymied again and again by the growers' manipulation of braceros.
		At one farm the boss made the workers all drink from the same cup "a beer can"in the field; at another ranch workers were forced to pay a quarter per cup.
	www.dkosopedia.com /index.php/United_Farm_Workers (1875 words)

	United Farm Workers of America
		Begun by the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), led by Dolores Huerta and Larry Itliong, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), led by Cesar Chavez, soon joined the strike.
		Farm workers' strike at the Di Giorgio farm in the San Joaquin Valley in the late 1940s.
		Provides "information, education, support, advocacy, and representation..." for migrant and seasonal farm workers and their families.
	www.holtlaborlibrary.org /ufw.html (808 words)

	United Farm Workers pioneer joins apple workers' hunger strike
		In 1962, she and the late Cesar Chavez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which would later become the United Farm Workers of America.
		Fasting was a tactic Chavez used to draw attention to the plight of farm workers, and Huerta said it's an effective, nonviolent form of protest.
		In the decades since, she has lobbied on behalf of farm workers in California and Washington, D.C., and helped organize field strikes.
	www.tri-cityherald.com /news/2000/0916/story3.html (656 words)

	Federal Bureau of Investigation - Freedom of Information Privacy Act
		Cesar Chavez was the Founder and Director of the National Farm Workers Association, later known as the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee.
		Chavez and his organization based on allegations in 1965 that he and others within the organization had communist affiliations.
	foia.fbi.gov /foiaindex/chavez.htm (128 words)

	Farm Bureau Car Insurance
		This union changed from a workers' rights organization that helped workers get unemployment insurance and the like to a union of farmworkers almost overnight, when the National Farm Workers Association went out on strike
		United Farm Workers The United Farm Workers were founded in the 1960s by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta.
		Farm Island Township, Minnesota Farm Island Township is a township located in Aitkin Count 1000 y, Minnesota.
	www.boriq.com /Farm+Bureau+Car+Insurance-39.html (593 words)

	pressure group
		The AARP (formerly the American Association of Retired Persons), the American Farm Bureau Federation, the American Legion, the National Association of Manufacturers, and the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws are examples of well-known American pressure groups.
		Nonpartisan League - Nonpartisan League, in U.S. history, political pressure group of farmers and workers organized in...
		Such agencies are especially open to the influence of those they regulate because of their continuing relationship with those they oversee; they receive much more sporadic attention from possible countervailing forces such as Congress or public opinion.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/history/A0840083.html (593 words)

	The Public Eye : Website of Political Research Associates
		The true political basis of the National Labor Federation (NATLFED) itself--an umbrella for locals like Eastern Farm Workers Association (EFWA), California Homemakers Association (CHA), Eastern or Western Serviceworkers Association (E-WSWA), and Western Massachusetts Labor Action (WMLAC)--is a mystery.
		NUWRO is an NCLC-spawned group which tried to destroy the National Welfare Rights Organization (NWRO), a legitimate national organization which, at its height in the early 70's, had chapters in nearly every state in the country.
		Labor Action (a NATLFED local) has passed out IWP literature including the IWP's monthly publication, The Struggle, which reports on various NATLFED locals; IWP never fails to included the work of NATLFED as important.
	www.publiceye.org /magazine/v01n1/NCLC_Kahn.html (593 words)

	GPCAH Publications
		Occupational injuries among agricultural workers 51 to 61 years old: a national study.
		Proceedings of the National Institute for Farm Safety; 1991 Oct; New Orleans, LA.
		The University of Iowa for National Institute of Aging, 1995.
	www.public-health.uiowa.edu /GPCAH/pubs.html (593 words)

	Dolores Huerta Bio
		In 1962, Huerta and Chavez formed the National Farm Worker's Association, with the basic principles of non-violence and public action.
		She directs the Collective Bargaining Unit of the United Farm Workers, is a board member of the National Farm Workers Service Center, and serves as a trustee of the Robert F.
		Although she was a single mother and raising eleven children at the time, Dolores Huerta was the leading force in organizing the nationwide grape boycott that eventually led to greatest wages and benefits for all farm workers.
	www.dhphs.org /Bio.htm (317 words)

	USPS - Sept. 18, 2002 - Cesar E. Chavez Postage Stamp Unveiled At United States Capitol
		In 1962 Chavez resigned from the CSO to establish the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America.
		A second-generation American, Chavez was born on March 31, 1927, near his family's farm in Yuma, Ariz. At age 10, his family became migrant farm workers after losing their farm in the Great Depression.
		Throughout his youth and into his adulthood, Chavez migrated across the Southwest laboring in the fields and vineyards, where he was exposed to the hardships and injustices of farm worker life.
	www.usps.com /news/2002/philatelic/sr02_072.htm (817 words)

	Today in History: August 22
		The UFWOC was established when two smaller organizations, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), both in the middle of strikes against certain California grape growers, merged and moved under the umbrella of the AFL-CIO.
		On August 22, 1966, the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC), later to be renamed the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), was formed.
		Before the rise of the UFW, working conditions were harsh for most agricultural workers.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/today/aug22.html (817 words)

	[Remember-bhopal] Sambhavna Chairperson passed away (fwd), Subramanya Sastry
		After six years of hard and patient work in the field and in the laboratory he was able to establish (and thus scientifically substantiate the perception of the farm workers) that Lathyrism is caused by ingestion of organic toxins present in the Lathyrus sativa grain paid to farm workers as wages.
		He was a member of the International Epidemiology Association, the Medical Research Foundation, the World Medical Federation of Neurology, the Indian Association of Medical Statistics, the Indian Public Health Association and the Indian Leprosy Association.
		In 1955 he became a field researcher in the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and started working on the problem of Lathyrism - a crippling nervous disease common among poor farm workers in certain districts of Madhya Pradesh.
	www.cs.wisc.edu /~param/asha/info/269928.html (817 words)

	KerrTop02.htm
		General; trade bill; "Condition of Farm Workers in 1961," Report to Board of Directors of National Sharecroppers Fund; news release: Inter-American Development Bank re loans to low-income farmers in Bolivia; "Digest of Congressional Proceedings of Interest to the Department of Agriculture"; Billy Sol Estes case; experiment stations; regional attorney at Stillwater; surplus commodities distributions; figs.
		Correspondents include American Farm Bureau Federation; Oklahoma Cattlemen's Association; National Livestock and Meat Board; American National Cattlemen's Association; Orville Freeman.
		Correspondents include Orville Freeman; National Association of Wheat Growers.
	www.ou.edu /special/albertctr/archives/KerrInventory/KerrTop02.htm (608 words)

	Cesar Chavez
		In 1962, Chavez resigned from his job as CSO national director and started the National Farm Workers Association with the aim of organizing and unionizing farm workers for better treatment.
		Through UFW, mostly through boycotts and protests, Chavez was able to organize tens of thousands of farm workers and to negotiate contracts entitling them to higher pay, family health coverage, pension, and other benefits they had not previously had.
		In 1988, Chavez conducted a thirty-six day "Fast for Life" to protest the poisons and pesticides being used on plants that were having negative health impacts on workers and their families, particularly their children.
	www.embracingcultures.com /heroes/cesar.html (782 words)

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