about Centro Campesino

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Dear Friends and allies,

A migrant worker is person that travels from one place to another in the search of work and better opportunities. Most migrant farmworkers in Minnesota are U.S. legal permanent residents or citizens that have a "home base" in south Texas or are Mexican citizens with permission to work in this country. Migrant farmworkers are actively recruited by Minnesota companies and their crew leaders to work in farm fields and food processing factories. In South-central Minnesota, the majority of migrant farmworkers work in seasonal canning jobs in vegetable processing companies.

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Our mission is to improve the lives of migrant workers and rural Latina/os and to create a strong southern Minnesota Latino/a voice.

Our programs and campaigns are guided by our values of faith, hope, unity and justice, we are a membership organization that was born and exists to create and demand positive social change.

Centro Campesino is a migrant farmworker and rural Latino/a membership organization begun in 1998 and incorporated in 2000 in order to improve the lives of migrant agricultural workers and rural Latino/a residents in south-central Minnesota. Centro Campesino was founded with the philosophy that farm workers, rural Latino/as and allies must work together to positively change institutional structures that create and maintain oppression. We utilize direct service, popular education, advocacy and organizing to achieve our aims.

Over 500 members and allies from the Austin community showed up to celebrate the opening of our new office in Austin. Members of Centro Campesino in Austin organized a committee that worked for weeks trying to organize this great event. Centro Campesino reinforces its mission and its constant effort to develop the leadership potential of our members in the different communities where we work.