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----- Original Message ----- From: "Bruce Goldstein" <bgoldstein@nclr.org> To: <fjf@nclr.org> Cc: <agjobs@fwjustice.org> Sent: Friday, March 25, 2005 5:22 PM Subject: AgJOBS Sign-On Letter Deadline April 5 - Please Help Dear Friends, The worker advocates and employer representatives who organized a left-center-right, 400-organization sign-on letter to Congress regarding AgJOBS last year is attempting to do it again. Due to potentially fast-moving events, we have little time. The letter is almost identical to the one last year. This year we would like at least 500 organizations. Last year, that remarkable sign-on letter drew great attention in Congress. Please help us. Quick deadline this year: Tuesday, April 5. Please notify Ms. Lorna Baez at the Farmworker Justice Fund, lbaez@nclr.org, 202-783-2628 ext. 201, and fax 202-783-2561. > The letter is below. > Also, we earlier asked you to fax, call, visit and write Senators. We > have > posted that action alert on our website along with every Senator's fax > number. Go to our website's Legislative News and then Action Alert page or > just click here: http://www.fwjustice.org/action_alert.htm . SUPPORT > FARMWORKERS -- SUPPORT AgJOBS > > Bruce Goldstein > Co-Executive Director > Farmworker Justice Fund, Inc. > 1010 Vermont Ave., NW, Ste. 915 > Washington, D.C. 20005 > 202-783-2628 fax: 783-2561 > Website: www.fwjustice.org e-mail: fjf@nclr.org > Farmworker Justice Award Reception May 17 > > > -- - -- - - - - - > Sign-on Letter > > Dear Member of Congress: > > The undersigned organizations, representing a broad cross-section of > America, join together to ask you to support enactment of S. 359 and H.R. > 884, the Agricultural Job Opportunities, Benefits and Security Act of 2005 > (AgJOBS). This landmark bipartisan legislation would achieve historic > reforms to our nation's labor and immigration laws as they pertain to > agriculture. The legislation reflects years of negotiations on complex > and > contentious issues among employer and worker representatives and leaders > in > Congress. > > A growing number of our leaders in Congress, as well as the President, > recognize that our nation's immigration policy is flawed and that, from > virtually every perspective, the status quo is untenable. America needs > reforms that are compassionate, realistic and economically sensible - > reforms that also enhance the rule of law and contribute to national > security. AgJOBS represents the coming together of historic adversaries > in > a rare opportunity to achieve reforms supportive of these goals, as well > as > our nation's agricultural productivity and food security. > > AgJOBS represents a balanced solution for American agriculture, a critical > element of a comprehensive solution, and one that can be enacted now with > broad bipartisan support. For these reasons, we join together to > encourage > the Congress to enact promptly S. 359 and H.R. 884, the Agricultural Job > Opportunities, Benefits, and Security Act of 2005. > Thank you. > List of 500 organizations. > > - - - - - - - - - > > > >
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