Fuerza Unida was founded in 1990, following an overnight shutdown of the Levi Strauss jeans factory in San Antonio leaving hundreds of workers without jobs and unable to meet the daily needs of food and housing. The mostly immigrant women working at the three Levi...
HOSTED by our friends at Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera, the annual Women and Fair Trade Festival is here for One Day Only, Saturday December 3, 2022 from 10 AM to 6 PM at First Unitarian Universalist Church on 4700 Grover Ave, Austin, TX 78756. The Women and Fair...
Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting the Women and Fair Trade Festival on Saturday, Nov. 20, from 10 am till 6 pm. This event offers Austin area shoppers an opportunity to support women’s cooperatives from around the world by purchasing beautiful,...
Attendees of this Spanish-English bilingual webinar heard from activists in the Comité Fronterizo de Obreras, including long time CFO coordinator Julia Quiñonez, as well as from Ben Davis of the United Steelworkers Union. Speakers focused on how COVID-19 has...
What does organizing at the border look like during the pandemic? On International Workers’ Day, May 1, 2021 at 12 noon CST, Austin Tan Cerca de la Frontera is hosting a Spanish-English bilingual webinar where speakers will address the impact of COVID-19 and the...
