2007 Farm Bill - Your help needed

[Guest guest]

March 2, 2007

Re: A Farmworker Justice Challenge Grant: Help Us Meet This

Challenge

Dear Friend,

The 2007 Farm Bill

debate is now heating up in Congress. This must-pass legislation provides us

with an opportunity to secure major new protections from toxic pesticides for

farmworkers, wildlife and the environment.

To enable Farmworker

Justice to fight for the rights of migrant workers in the Farm Bill, an

individual donor has issued us a $75,000 challenge grant. To get this support,

we must raise an additional $75,000 from other sources. We seek your help in

meeting this challenge by March 31, 2007.

Congress will enact a

new Farm Bill in late 2007, as it does every five years, and chart a new course

for agriculture regarding: grower subsidies, environmental conservation,

international trade, research priorities and other major programs and

policies. Migrant farmworkers and their advocates want to seize this

opportunity to secure much needed reforms to improve safety in the workplace,

prevent environmental degradation and secure funds for research on farmworker

health and safety.

Several factors combine

to make this is a propitious moment to secure needed change. They include: the

increasing influence of the Latino community and the growing coalition of

environmental, anti-hunger, anti-tax, and other groups that want to reduce farm

subsidies for major commodity growers and redirect that funding to better meet

farmworker and community needs. This policy-change opportunity will remain

open only for a short time. We helped farmworkers win pesticide protections in

a Farm Bill before and hope to build on that success to do so again.

With your support, we

will be able to engage in extensive public education and advocacy. Without

this funding, we do not have the staff or other resources to create a serious

campaign. Your donations are tax-deductible,

will be met dollar for dollar by our challenge grant and will advance safety

and justice for farmworkers nationwide.

You may use the attached

pledge form to make a donation by check. You may also use a credit card to

make a donation online at our website, www.farmworkerjustice.org (click on the

Paypal or Network for Good buttons).

Thank you very much.

Sincerely,

Deputy Director

FARMWORKER JUSTICE

P.S. Please note our

new address and telephone numbers.

PLEDGE

FORM

FARMWORKER

JUSTICE CHALLENGE GRANT

Name

______________________________________________________________

Organization (if

applicable) _______________________________________________

Address

____________________________________________________________

City/State/Zip

_________________________________________________________

Phone

______________________________________________________________

E-mail

______________________________________________________________

PLEASE ACCEPT MY TAX-DEDUCTIBLE

CONTRIBUTION OF:

c $5,000 c $2,500 c $1,000 c

$500 c $250 c

$100

c Other $_________________

PAYMENT

PLAN:

c I will pay the total pledge today.

c I will make

payments on the pledge of $_________ Every Quarter _________(Minimum $100.00 pledge)

c I will pay the total pledge by

___________(date).

PAYMENT:

q My check is

enclosed.

q Invoice me.

q My company

has a matching gift program.

q I will pay

by credit card online at your website, www.farmworkerjustice.org, using Paypal

or Network for Good.

Thank you very much.

All donations will be acknowledged by letter. For further information, please

contact Office Manager Lorna Baez at 202-293-5420 or lbaez@.... Our fax is (202) 293-5427.

Farmworker Justice