THREAD: Sept. 18 | 12 PM CST Investigate Midwest is hosting a free virtual panel on immigration raids, reform & the future of farm labor. As enforcement ramps up and reforms stall, what does this mean for farmworkers, supply chains & rural communities? Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/immigratio...

No one should have to choose between their health and putting food on the table. It’s time for OSHA to support safety, dignity, and protection for the 28 million food and farm workers essential to our survival!

This isn’t just a climate issue. it’s immigration justice racial justice labor rights and human rights issue. Failure to act now is costing lives #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers

When working people are protected communities thrive ✨ Heat stress protections NOW for the 28 million working people integral to our communities and essential to our survival! For too long, corporate lobbyists and complicit politicians have put profits over people’s lives 🧵

Across the country, libraries are using culinary programs to evolve beyond traditional book-lending, adapt to users’ needs, and reshape themselves into contemporary centers of community.

We want our taxes to feed people not detain them We want our taxes to help families not separate them #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers

Reminder: no one is illegal and all labor is essential! Join us in the fight for safety, dignity and protection for the 28 million working people essential to our survival! #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers

We are in solidarity with all immigrant workers and oppose all policies that terrorize communities and separate loved ones. Our tax dollars must fund food, community and care, not fear and billionaires. #ProtectFoodandFarmWorkers

“Folks need clarity about what is happening, support during a difficult moment, and alternatives to the current faltering system.” This guide from @grist.org includes status of USDA programs and resources for those seeking additional support! grist.org/food-and-agr...

Heat protections “should be implemented yesterday” @healfoodalliance.bsky.social. Agriculture and food system workers deserve to stay safe and healthy at work, especially as summers get hotter and more dangerous

Now is the time to act! If we want futures where everyone has access to food, care, and a thriving planet we need leaders who invest in people, not corporations and profits Tell the Senate to reject this destructive spending bill and vote “No” on Trump’s big bad bill bit.ly/No2TheBigBadBill

In the latest HEAL SoPL blog, SOFSA shares how roleplaying 1:1s and revisiting their base-building strategy made their campaign feel clear and doable. “What felt nebulous now feels approachable.” Read more: healfoodalliance.org/aligning-res... #FoodJustice #LeadershipDevelopment #BaseBuilding

​Rep. Rashida Tlaib on Gaza: Why Does U.S. Have Money for "War and Genocide" But Not for Healthcare?

🚨 Farmworker organizer Alfredo “Lelo” Juarez was detained & targeted for defending farmworker rights and dignity. He's facing a bond hearing at the ICE detention center in Tacoma. 📸 Post your #FreeLelo photo or video today. 🗣️ Take action: bit.ly/FreeLelo #FreeLelo #FarmworkerJustice

🚨 Lelo's bond hearing is scheduled for RIGHT NOW at the ICE Detention Facility in Tacoma, WA. #FreeLelo and ALL targeted workers! ICE out of our communities! Learn more about this case at the #LinksInBio and share your photo or video in support of Lelo today.

Do you know why you're eating today? Because a farmworker bent over in the heat of the sun and picked your veggies. A poultry processing worker butchered and packaged your chicken. A transportation worker delivered them all to the market. And a restaurant worker prepared the final meal for you --

Every day is Earth Day 🌱🌊🌼 – which means every day we can take action to be in deep care with the land, water, and all its inhabitants – including the people who tend it ✨

On Monday, armed Border Patrol agents entered a Vermont dairy farm and arrested 8 farmworkers. This is the largest single immigration arrest of farmworkers and one of the largest worksite arrests in recent VT history. CC: @migrantjustice.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

Almost half of Americans are breathing in dangerous levels of air pollutants, a new report shows, a rise compared with a year ago and likely to further increase in coming years thanks to the climate crisis and the Trump administration’s sweeping environmental rollbacks.

Last week the House voted to overturn two CFPB rules that protect consumers from overdraft fees and crooked practices of digital payment apps "This is a rule that would bring overdraft fees from $35 down to $5 and save families $5 billion a year, or $225 per household per year." bit.ly/4cyvhnJ

Thank you Rep @pressley.house.gov for standing with consumers and voting AGAINST resolutions to overturn the CFPB’s overdraft and payment apps rules. We need these rules to #ProtectConsumers from excessive overdraft fees and Big Tech abuses!

🌟Grant Opportunity🌟The ASPCA Fund to End Factory Farming is back—offering up to $100K to groups impacted by factory farming & working for more humane, regional food systems. We've partnered w/ Socially Responsible Agriculture Project on this year's fund. Apply by 5/30 👉 www.aspca.org/news/factory...

Must watch interview! Edgar Franks talks about Lelo's scheduled hearing, his past experiences with ICE, and the mass arrest of workers ICE conducted in NW Washington just a few days ago.

DC Friends! Join us to support our friends @foodchainworkers.bsky.social as they lay out a vision for the future of labor and climate organizing. Register to attend the worker power hour at Busboys and Poets on April 25: bit.ly/FCWAinDC2025 👋🏽 Hope to see you there!

📢 We're hiring at @farmstand.bsky.social! ⚖️ Staff & Senior Attorneys 💻 Digital Comms Associate 🌾 Rural Organizer Join us in fighting for a food system accountable to people, not profit. Apply or share with your people! 🔗 farmstand.org/join-our-team/

Our partners at @healfoodalliance.bsky.social show the ways in which farmers & rural communities will face immediate economic harm without the CFPB's oversight of manufactured home lending, protection against predatory fees in areas with limited banking options: healfoodalliance.org/wp-content/u...

Overdraft fees are the worst…unless you’re a Republican in Congress. Today, House Republicans are pushing a bill to let big banks charge whatever they want for overdraft fees, overturning a $5 cap. I’m voting NO. Share this video and make sure your rep knows this is not what people want.

Tomorrow, the House will vote to overturn CFPB rules banning bank overdraft fees & weaken protections for people using payment apps. This means small farmers will face more financial discrimination & our working families will be hit hard by rising fees. 📢 ACT NOW: healfoodalliance.org/actnow

A new bank is ready to support farmers of color and rural communities. Trump’s agenda threatens their work.

The Trump administration is gutting the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB)—which protects us from scams, junk fees, and financial fraud. Farmers, rural communities, and working families depend on fair financial protections to survive. What to do, from @healfoodalliance.bsky.social ⬇️

Right now, Congress is voting on multiple bills that will roll back Consumer Financial Protections Bureau (CFPB) protections that will make it easier for banks and credit lenders to scam us. If the CFPB is dismantled, all of us would face immediate economic harm - but we can fight this!

NEW: @clairek.bsky.social covers a new report from Diane Standaert & @healfoodalliance.bsky.social that breaks down the many ways that the loss of federal financial protections from the #CFPB will harm rural communities and farmers, in particular. foodandpower.substack.com/p/how-guttin...

It's no secret that rural communities across the country are struggling with economic hardships. Now, a recent order is halting the CFPB's vital work protecting consumers from financial harm. Our new report details how this shutdown will impact farmers and rural communities bit.ly/CFPBreport2025

Breaking: We’re suing the Trump admin for removing climate change focused information from the USDA website. The move cuts off farmers, researchers, and advocates from accessing critical resources and funding.

We knew from the start that DOGE was a scam designed to dismantle the critical programs Americans depended on. This mass resignation proves DOGE employees know that too. We must stop Trump and Musk's destruction before the damage becomes irreparable.

The future of our food systems will be community centered and BIPOC led 🌱✊🏽! Excited to introduce the #FoodJustice leaders from Colorado, Mississippi, New York and California in the #HEALSoPL25 cohort and their work to improve food systems bit.ly/HEALSoPL2025

We are here and we are powerful ❤️‍🔥 Today our alliance celebrates 8 years of building power for food justice and sovereignty for all beings 🌱 A message from our ED on how to face this critical moment in our movement, together healfoodalliance.org/stay-steady-stay-strong-our-movement-is-powerful/

Musk is trying to scam us. We won’t let that happen! Call your Senators and tell them to defend the CFPB and stop Musk’s shutdown 5calls.org/issue/consum...

A 2nd #birdflu strain has jumped to cows, The current bird flu policy is failing. The policy has put the short term interest of agribusiness above everything else harming animals, farms workers, and creating the risk of a global pandemic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiFP...

RIGHT NOW! The House Committee on Financial Services is hosting a hearing for multiple bills that will roll back key banking regulations, like #Rule1071. 1071 provides transparency in banking practices for small farmers, ranchers, and all small business borrowers. Here's why it matters:

“Trump ag secretary nominee says food issues from mass deportations are ‘hypothetical’” We know that the consequences will be real, cruel, and devastating for all workers and communities. https://investigatemidwest.org/2025/01/24/trump-ag-secretary-nominee-says-food-issues-from-mass-deportations-a…

"A 2023 survey found that the American public largely trusts federal health agency recommendations. Public trust in guidance from these agencies can literally save lives...RFK Jr. has made a career of eroding the public’s trust in scientific agencies." @ucsusa.bsky.social bit.ly/UnfitToLeadHHS

2 new studies from the USDA reveal that excessive line speeds & insufficient staffing put workers—mostly immigrants, refugees, and people of color—at risk of serious upper extremity disorders. Read more from @healfoodalliance.bsky.social healfoodalliance.org/statement-ne...

The USDA needs leadership that champions the needs of all communities. As the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins could setback farmers, workers and food insecure families! Here's what you need to know about Trump’s nominee for Secretary of Ag (thread)

Community is our best form of defense! the Trump administration has promised to increase deportations and ICE activity. We are already seeing increase in targeting of undocu folks and migrant communities. Thread of info from Muslims for Just Futures on what to do if you are approached by ICE 👉🏽

@govkathyhochul.bsky.social: Mark Izeman of @nrdc.org highlights how #GoodFoodNY will boost NY farmers and food systems. Governor Hochul, signing this bill strengthens your commitment to local economies. Read here: www.nrdc.org/bio/mark-ize...

NY’s communities deserve fresh, local food wherever tax dollars are spent. @govkathyhochul.bsky.social, the #GoodFoodNY Bill delivers for farmers & families across the board. Don’t let the ball drop! >> Take Action! bit.ly/GFNYaction2024

"It’s pure fantasy to think that expelling the immigrant workforce will compel Big Ag to start treating its employees with respect." farmstand.org/how-big-ag-t...

TODAY! The House will vote to determine whether the incoming Trump administration will have the power to shut down non-profit organizations with no due process. We can’t let them do this quietly!

"And even as we fight the worst...may we continue to nourish and grow what we are building, and with our blood and political ancestors at our back, to claim power with our people." - Navina Khanna, HEAL Food Alliance executive director for @civileats.bsky.social civileats.com/2024/11/13/f...