Beyond Farmworkers’ Week:
Statement of Solidarity from WashMasks Mutual Aid
Our hearts and solidarity are with Ana Murguia, Debra Rojas, Dolores Huerta, and all other survivors of Cesar Chavez. We acknowledge their bravery and grieve that they were forced to carry their pain and denied justice for decades. We hope that they continue to be held with empathy as the public continues to learn their truth. These survivors deserve justice and peace.
The horrific allegations of assault, grooming, and abuse by Cesar Chavez are deeply revealing about how farmworkers continue to be vulnerable and disenfranchised. According the UN Women’s 2025 Report, migrant workers continue to be trafficked for forced labor at a rate three times higher than non-migrant workers. The women and young people who feed us deserve a world where they are safe, believed, and validated.
WashMasks Mutual Aid was formed in a time of crisis, the Covid-19 pandemic. The first organizers we worked with were women and young people across rural Washington. They continue to be our community partners to this day. They guide our work and continue to teach us so much. We know that many within the farmworker community are feeling deeply betrayed by the allegations and are currently dealing with harm caused by misogyny and white supremacy. These humans are feeding us daily- through rain, snow, wind, heat, and pandemic. The farmworker community needs active allyship. Solidarity is action, not a state of being.
Let this moment teach us that a leader does not make a movement; the people and their actions do. We have gathered several ways you can participate in solidarity with farmworkers this spring. Whether it’s time, special skills, or money—we all can do something in fighting for farmworker justice and dismantling the racist patriarchy.
We hope you join us. Bring your tools. Every action is a ripple. Together we make a wave.
We are partnering with Nuestra Casa this spring in a community garden to address food insecurity in the Lower Yakima Valley. We are gathering plant starts and other supplies in April; for more information please visit the Nuestra Casa Community Garden page.
Call your Washington state representatives about farmworkers’ rights to collective bargain. Tell them that this is an issue that matters to you and that you want them to vote for it.
Sign up to be a part of Migrant Justice’s phone tree for their Milk with Dignity campaign.
Got wheels? Love driving long distances across our beautiful state? Sign up to be a volunteer delivery driver for WashMasks.
Join us in making crafting kits and cooling bands to distribute to farmworkers and their families.
Seattle Yarn: Teach-in and crafting-kit making on April 12th at 3:00pm. Donations of craft & art supplies accepted at Seattle Yarn during open hours anytime!
Cooling Band Sew-along: Create cooling bands with us at Seattle Recreative on May 9th from 1:00-3:00pm.
For the cooling wrap tutorial and more information on how to make them on your own visit the Sew-along page.
Join us in making crafting kits and cooling bands to distribute to farmworkers and their families.
Seattle Yarn: Teach-in and crafting-kit making on April 12th at 3:00pm. Donations of craft & art supplies accepted at Seattle Yarn during open hours anytime!
Cooling Band Sew-along: Create cooling bands with us at Seattle Recreative on May 9th from 1:00-3:00pm.
For the cooling wrap tutorial and more information on how to make them on your own visit Actions page.
If you wish to donate to organizations protecting the safety and legal protections of migrant and rural women, LGBTQIA, and youth:
If you wish to donate to organizations that provide food security for migrant and rural women, LGBTQIA, youth, and families: