CDS Undergraduates Create Videos for National Farmworker Awareness Week 2013
Working in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) and other farmworker organizations nationwide, ten undergraduate students at CDS have created a series of short videos to be used as part of the media campaign for the 14th annual National Farmworker Awareness Week, to be held March 24-31, 2013. The students are enrolled in DOCST 332S “Farmworkers [...]
“Inicios | Beginnings” : SAF Ends 20th Anniversary Year with Mural Unveiling and Celebration
Join Student Action with Farmworkers for Inicios | Beginnings—a mural unveiling and final celebration of twenty years of growing farmworker activists. The event will be held at the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry in Dunn, North Carolina, where SAF’s first Into the Fields interns were placed in 1992. Inicios | Beginnings Sunday, November 11, 2012, 2 p.m.–5 p.m. [...]
Reception for Three New Exhibits Celebrating Student Action With Farmworkers History, Thursday, September 20
Three new exhibitions at Duke University Libraries explore the human experience of farmworkers and the history of a nonprofit organization, Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), dedicated to improving their lives; the exhibits will be on view through December 9, 2012. An opening reception will feature Latin American food and speakers reflecting on SAF’s evolution and the transformative power of [...]
Join in the Student Action with Farmworkers End of Summer Celebration: August 11 at CDS
The public is invited to join Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) staff, alumni, and supporters in celebrating two decades of growing farmworker activists! SAF has brought more than seven hundred young people into social justice work and has supported eighty thousand farmworkers in their efforts to gain access to a more just agricultural system. This year [...]
Watch: CDS Students Produce Video Series on Farmworker Conditions and Child Labor
Undergraduates in CDS Artist in Residence Bruce Orenstein’s Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change class have produced a series of advocacy videos touching on the conditions of farmworkers in North Carolina and child labor in the agricultural industry. The course is being taught in collaboration with Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF); SAF, NC Children in [...]
Watch: Student Action with Farmworkers Director, Melinda Wiggins, Honored at White House
Melinda Wiggins, director of Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF), was recently honored at the White House as one of ten Champions of Change, a weekly program created by the Obama administration to highlight leaders and innovators from different sectors across the country. In recognition of National Farmworker Awareness Week, and what would have been the [...]
Student Action with Farmworkers Celebrates 20th Anniversary With Exhibitions on the Duke Campus—Reception Wednesday, March 28
A special reception on the Duke University campus during National Farmworker Awareness Week will celebrate the opening of two Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) documentary exhibits, and SAF’s twenty-year anniversary. Ni de Aquí, Ni de Allá | Not From Here, Not From There and Nuestros Sueños, Nuestros Historias | Our Stories, Our Dreams present the work of [...]
Charlie Thompson on “Spirits of Just Men”
Charlie Thompson, director of the undergraduate program at CDS, holds the faculty position of Lecturer in the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke and is an adjunct professor in the Department of Religion. His latest book, Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World (University of Illinois [...]
New Documentary Studies Course Offered in the Spring: Video for Social Change
A new Documentary Studies course for both Duke and UNC undergraduates will be offered for the Spring 2011 semester. Documentary Studies: Video for Social Change Taught by Bruce Orenstein, founder of the Chicago Video Project and award-winning producer of three PBS documentaries and numerous campaign videos for social change organizations This course taught at Duke [...]
North Carolina Latin American Film Screening November 16: Harvest of Dignity
On the 50th anniversary of the acclaimed 1960 documentary Harvest of Shame by Edward R. Murrow, the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN) and Minnow Media present Harvest of Dignity, a documentary exploring the conditions that migrant and seasonal farmworkers face in the United States today. Harvest of Shame and Harvest of Dignity at the North Carolina [...]
Benefit Photo Auction For Student Action With Farmworkers
Benefit Photo Auction For Student Action With Farmworkers May 7, 2009 | 6:00–8:30 p.m. Center for Documentary Studies 1317 W. Pettigrew Street Durham, NC 27705 Light refreshments and wine will be served $5 at the door gets you a full catalogue and a chance to bid Pay with cash, check, or major credit card
Student Action with Farmworkers Receive Service-Learning Award for Contributions to CDS Undergraduate Classes
Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) was honored last month by Duke University’s Service-Learning Program with a Betsy Alden Outstanding Service-Learning Award, in recognition of SAF’s long commitment to supporting CDS undergraduate courses. SAF was nominated for the Alden Award by Charlie Thompson, director of undergraduate education at CDS, and Christopher Sims, an instructor at CDS, [...]
