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FARMWORKER AWARENESS WEEK

Social justice symposium is March 28-April 2

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New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas will be the keynote speaker for the 16th Annual J. Paul Taylor Social Justice Symposium, which will be held March 28-April 2, during Farmworker Awareness Week. 

The New Mexico State University College of Arts and Sciences began the symposium in 2005. Former educator and state legislator J. Paul Taylor or Mesilla celebrated his 100th birthday last August.

This year’s virtual symposium theme is “Justice for Farmworkers.”

The symposium “will center on questions of social justice pertaining to essential farmworkers in our border region, as they continue to sustain our communities with their labor,” said symposium co-chair Cynthia Bejarano, Ph.D., an NMSU regents professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies and Gender and Sexuality Studies.

The symposium will open with a Zoom session 5:30-7:30 p.m. Sunday, March 28 that will include a blessing by members of Tortugas Pueblo, a welcome from NMSU Chancellor Dan Arvizu, a video address from Taylor and recognition of the NMSU Department of Government Social Justice Award the J. Paul Taylor Symposium Community Award recipient. The programming for Sunday evening will also include Balderas’ keynote address.

Scheduled over six days, evening Zoom sessions will include the following panel discussions, each held 5:30-730 p.m. on the dates indicated: “The History of Braceros and Farmworker Struggles at the Borderlands” (Monday, March 29); “Legal Issues Affecting Farmworkers in West Texas and Southern New Mexico” (Tuesday, March 30); “Farmworkers and Public Education K-20” (Wednesday, March 31); and “Health Disparities, Food, and Financial Insecurities for Farmworkers” (Thursday, March 30).

On Friday, April 2, 5:30-7:30 p.m., the symposium will present the film “Hailing César,” followed by a question and answer session with filmmaker Eduardo Chávez, the grandson of César E. Chávez.

The symposium’s opening ceremonies will be led by members of Tortugas Pueblo. The NMSU Government Department’s Social Justice Award and JPTSJS Community Award recipients also will be recognized.

Visit https://artsci.nmsu.edu/news-media/jpts/ for Zoom links to access the virtual panel discussions, the program agenda, panelists’ biographies and the 2021 award recipients. 

Farmworker Awareness Week

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