Music For Ag Workers: Concert to Support SB-21-087

Join with The Agriculutre Workers Rights Coaliton, The Project Protect Promotora Network and BronzeVille: Black and Brown Growers Collective at a special concert to raise awarenss and support or the Agriculture Bill of Rights.

For almost a century, agricultural workers have been excluded from many of this country’s most important and hard-fought labor protections, including the right to organize, the right to overtime pay, and in the case of thousands of Colorado farmworkers, the right to minimum wage. The origins of these exclusions, which go back decades, are explicitly racist--originally part of an effort to exclude Black workers from the New Deal’s most important labor protections.

Especially now, after a year in which farmworkers have suffered disproportionately from the pandemic and toiled in wildfires and extreme heat to bring food to our tables, it is essential that we close these anachronistic gaps and provide basic protections and dignity to some…