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Red Rock Pictures have completed their film, Split
Estate, about the devastating impact of natural gas
drilling in the Colorado Rockies and New Mexico’s
San Juan Basin and particularly the impact on
surface land owners. Funding for the project is to
develop outreach & training materials to be used for
a broad audience. The plan is to create both a
community and a classroom screening guide to
empower audiences to channel their reactions into
positive action.
The UWA is an organization of low-wage workers and
day laborers who are organizing for better wages and
working conditions. Using a combination of strategic
corporate accountability campaigns, worker-run
cooperatives, leadership development, and ally
support, UWA is working to overcome the barriers
workers face in ensuring their basic economic human
rights.
CIF is a collectively-run organization of immigrant
women of color. The Escuela Popular de Mujeres/
Women's Popular Education Program, works to
engage participants in a process of individual and
collective empowerment, reflection, leadership
development, and organizing for change.
FWPP is working to end farm worker community
exposures to agricultural pesticides. FWPP acts as an
advocate, organizer, educator and researcher. By
leveraging resources for and with the farm worker
community, FWPP advocates policies and programs
that move growers away from pesticides that hurt
farm workers and families and to alternatives that are
truly safe, just and sustainable.
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT
NATIONAL GRASSROOTS GRANT
