Social Impact Campaign

Fruits of Labor is a moving documentary film with a multi-year campaign for mixed-status families and farm workers.

The campaign is an opportunity to strengthen our movements and society by centering young Latinas and all those who do the work of cultivating food, to bring together support for mixed-status families to feel held, heard, and seen as people.

Justice is Blooming: The Fruits of Labor Farmworker Community Screening Tour

This summer, we’re organizing a tour of outdoor screenings in partnership with immigrant, Indigenous, and workers’ rights organizations.

We are hosting free outdoor screenings in farm working communities in the United States and Mexico. These events are designed to be welcoming to low-wage workers and their families — especially women, teens and elders.

Local vendors will serve each guest a hot, healthy meal of traditional foods.
Partner organizations will offer legal help, voter registration and a variety of other resources toward civic and political education.
Participatory cultural and art workshops will precede each screening.

We believe that breaking bread in community allows for not only the needed distribution of food but creates a warm environment, cultivates trust, effective political organizing, and honest discussion.

Events are already underway across California and Mexico — in Petaluma, Watsonville, the San Joaquin Valley, Los Angeles and Bakersfield. We are taking the film to Mexico with our eye on Michoacán and Jalisco. Please reach out if you are a community organizer or journalist in the area who might be able to support our efforts.

What does this look like? Read about our kickoff screening in Watsonville.

Are you a member of an organization that wants to join our summer screening tour? Email fruitsoflabor.impact@gmail.com.

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Help us bring the film to farmworking communities!

We’re so excited to bring Fruits of Labor to farmworker communities with outdoor screenings throughout the U.S. and Mexico. But we need your help to make it happen.

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Social Impact Campaign Goals

The mission of the film’s social impact campaign is to care for mixed-status families through these goals:

Resource Hub: Support the work of organizations leading campaigns that provide on-the-ground support and resources.

Reframe Gender Roles: Foster community conversation about the gendered division of labor within family units.

Communal Care: Encourage rest as a means of resistance for Latinx and Indigenous farmworkers and other essential workers.

We need your support to pull this off. Learn more about the campaign and make your tax-deductible donation today:

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Fruits of Labor is a fiscally sponsored project of the International Documentary Association (IDA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Contributions are payable to the IDA and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.

SOCIAL IMPACT PARTNERS

For Young Latinas

ORGANIZATIONS

Girasoles en Marcha is an organization that seeks to mobilize a future that preserves our cultural heritage and challenges systemic barriers to pursue equity, inclusion, and collective unity.
Mujeres de Maiz was founded in 1997 as a grassroots, multimedia women’s activist organization based in East Los Angeles, California. Their mission is to bring together and empower diverse women and girls through the creation of community spaces that provide holistic wellness through education, programming, exhibition and publishing.

RESOURCES

Fuerza Latina are strong believers in the ability of our youth to succeed. Our goal for this website is to provide resources and tips for Latinx youth on their path to higher education. No estan solos. We strive to achieve equity within our communities.

For Farmworkers and Migrant Workers

ORGANIZATIONS

Justice for Migrant Women protects and advances migrant women’s rights through education, public awareness, and advocacy. Justice for Migrant Women aims to ensure that all migrant women are guaranteed human and civil rights, including the freedom of mobility, the ability to live and work with dignity, and the right to be free of threats of violence against them and their families, whether they are migrating across borders, around regions or within states.
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) is an organization that seeks to help the rural poor improve their economic, social and political conditions and become more civically engaged in their communities.
North Bay Jobs with Justice is a grassroots coalition of labor, community, and student voices at the national and local levels to win improvements in people’s lives and shape the public discourse on workers’ rights and the economy.
Alianza Nacional de Campesinas (National Farmworkers Women’s Alliance) is the first national women farmworkers’ organization in the U. S. created by current and former women farmworkers, along with women who hail from farmworker families.
Centro de los Derechos del Migrante is an organization that supports Mexico-based migrant workers to defend and protect their rights as they move between their home communities in Mexico and their workplaces in the United States.
Farmworker Justice (Justicia Campesina) is a nonprofit organization that seeks to empower migrant and seasonal farmworkers to improve their living and working conditions, immigration status, health, occupational safety, and access to justice.
National Farm Worker Ministry (NFWM) is a faith-based organization which supports farm workers as they organize for justice and empowerment. NFWM works side by side with farm workers and their organizing groups throughout the country, to organize vigils, picket, coordinate boycotts and educate constituents.

RESOURCES

Coming Clean’s Safe Foods and Fields Program empowers farmworkers and their allies to reduce toxic pesticide exposures and to promote safe and sustainable agriculture.
Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS) is a think tank and an educational institute devoted to the study of international migration, to the promotion of understanding between immigrants and receiving communities, and to public policies that safeguard the dignity and rights of migrants, refugees, and newcomers.
Community Agroecology Network’s mission is to sustain rural livelihoods and environments by integrating research, education, and trade innovations.

For Mixed Status Families

ORGANIZATIONS

Centro Legal de La Raza is a legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income, immigrant, Black, and Latinx communities through bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
Families Belong Together is a campaign of the National Domestic Workers Alliance formed in response to the 2018 family separation crisis. Families Belong Together works with nearly 250 organizations representing Americans from all backgrounds who have joined together to fight family separation and promote dignity, unity, and compassion for all children and families.

RESOURCES

#keepfamiliestogether is a project developed by the National Housing Law Center that explains HUD proposed housing rules for mixed-status families.
Healthcare.gov resources for mixed-status families.
Affordable Care Act & Mixed Status Families

For Indigenous and Latinx Communities

ORGANIZATIONS

Movimiento Cultural de la Union Indígena is an Indigenous-led community based organization that seeks to reclaim and preserve indigenous cultures, provide educational information to the public on indigenous cultures, and to implement programs that enhance the civic participation and the economic and social well-being of indigenous communities.
Montana’s Office for Public Instruction: American Indian Education provides schools and staff with knowledge, skills, and content to ensure Indian Education for All means cultural enrichment, academic engagement, and equitable pedagogy for students.
UCSC Latina and Latin American Studies is an innovative interdisciplinary department grounded in the bridging of the fields of Latino/a/x Studies (ethnic studies) and Latin American Studies (area studies).
The Native Filmmaker Initiative Film Club is a virtual youth education outreach program that screens a curated selection of Indigenous-made documentary films in classrooms across Montana.

For Allies, Supports & Beyond

ORGANIZATIONS

Human Rights Watch Film Festival (HRWFF) bears witness to human rights violations in direct storytelling and exposé form, and creates a forum for courageous individuals on both sides of the lens to empower audiences with the knowledge that personal commitment can make a difference. In 30 years we have showcased over 720 films at our global festivals.
The Center for Labor Studies at UC Santa Cruz is dedicated to the study of working people, the labor movement, and the challenge of the broader global economy as it impacts the working people of California and beyond. Through research, conferences, workshops, public lectures, and a range of guest speakers, we focus, in particular, on the relationship between the labor movement (broadly defined), social movements, and democratic practices; on gender, race, and ethnic dynamics; and on labor activism in international context.
Firelight Media is a premier destination for non-fiction cinema by and about communities of color. Firelight Media produces documentary films, supports filmmakers of color, and cultivates audiences for their work.
Community Agroecology Network’s mission is to sustain rural livelihoods and environments by integrating research, education, and trade innovations.
Linksbridge is a social purpose corporation founded in 2008 working with nonprofit and social impact partners for nonprofit goals. They give no-strings-attached gifts to nonprofits fighting for intersectional justice and human rights locally and globally
Women’s Foundation California is a statewide, publicly supported foundation dedicated to achieving racial, economic, and gender justice by centering the experience and expertise of communities most impacted by systemic injustice.
Stronger California Women’s Security Agenda is a collaborative campaign of 50+ advocacy groups and coalitions from across the state. ERA co-founded and chairs this cross-sector network, and together, they have driven groundbreaking reforms to help Californians combat poverty and build assets, achieve workplace justice and family-friendly workplaces, and expand access to affordable, quality child care.
Insight Garden facilitates an innovative curriculum combined with vocational gardening and landscaping training so that people in prison can reconnect to self, community, and the natural world.
Grantmakers Concerned with Immigrants and Refugees is the nation’s only immigrant-focused philanthropy-supporting organization (PSO). They connect funders from around the country to one another, catalyzing coordinated and collaborative grantmaking for maximum impact.
The Workers Lab is a nonprofit investor that envisions a society where all workers are safe, healthy, secure, and free. Their purpose is to give workers a chance to succeed and flourish.
Southern Border Communities Coalition brings together more than 60 organizations from across the southern border to promote policies and solutions that improve the quality of life for border residents.
Corazón Healdsburg is a mission-driven human-rights organization that believes in human dignity and human rights. Their mission is to build a compassionate and just community by empowering and dignifying individuals and families, advocating against injustices, and uniting people to celebrate diversity.