Farmworkers Self-Help, Inc. - Weekly Digest
Gang Grafitti Becomes Positive Message
Late last Thursday, one or more young people spray painted the letters L S G on the side of our teen center here in Tommytown. L S G is supposed to stand for Lock Street Gang, a loose knit group of troubled teens looking to gain fear and respect by tagging buildings in our community. Maybe it was in retaliation for the prayers that we said outside the home where they hang out; maybe it was just because we threaten their existence just by being there.AgJobs is back
AgJOBS is a bipartisan, compromise bill that is the result of years of negotiations among farmworkers, growers, and Members of Congress. The legislation has two parts: 1) an earned legalization program for unauthorized farmworkers who meet certain eligibility requirements; and 2) a revision of the H-2A temporary foreign agricultural worker program. Numerous organizations from across the political spectrum believe that the bill is necessary to create a stable agricultural workforce, improve the lives of farmworkers, and give employers access to the workers they need.
Support the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act
For years, FSH has been committed to improving women's health. In January 1997, Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro of Connecticut sponsored H.R. 135, the Breast Cancer Patient Protection Act of 1997, in the 105th Congress. The bill sought to "amend the Public Health Service Act and Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to require that group and individual health insurance coverage and group health plans provide coverage for a minimum hospital stay for mastectomies and lymph node dissections performed for the treatment of breast cancer."
