FLSNY welcomes Attorney Molly Graver.  Molly comes to FLSNY from Oregon where she worked for Legal Aid Services of Oregon Farmworker Program.  At Legal Aid she represented farm workers in civil cases addressing employment, housing, civil rights, health, safety, and pesticide exposure claims.

Molly graduated from the City University of New York School of Law in 2001, where she was a Haywood Burns Human Rights Fellow, a Belle Zeller Scholar, and an Ella Baker Fellow intern at the Center for Constitutional Rights

Molly also has a Master’s Degree in Theological Studies/Justice and Peace Studies from the Maryknoll School of Theology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Religion magna cum laude from Davidson College in North Carolina.

She has worked in solidarity with marginalized peoples for over 15 years.  Her experience includes working with a women’s grassroots collective in rural El Salvador, the Las Americas Refugee Asylum Project on the US/Mexico border, and a humanitarian organization at the United Nations.   

 

Molly Graver Joins FLSNY’s Legal Team

FLSNY’s Domestic Violence Project  Participates in the Bandana Project

                 Farmworker Legal Services of NY, Inc. joins the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), Montgomery, Ala., to showcase an exhibit featuring decorated bandanas that symbolize the need to end the sexual harassment and abuse of farm worker women in the U.S. As part of SPLC’s “Bandana Project,” community groups, universities and other organizations across the country have adopted this symbol because farm worker women use bandanas on the job to cover their faces and

bodies in an attempt to ward off unwanted sexual attention that often leads to rape.

Farmworker women use their clothes, including bandanas, as weapons in the fields to protect themselves from sexual violence in the workplace. In fact, a California survey found that 90% of farm worker women state that sexual harassment is a major problem.

The Bandana Project was launched by Esperanza: The

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FLSNY                                    Spring 2008

Special points of interest:

· Welcome Molly Graver (Page 1)

· Cristen Sargent to join FLSNY this summer (Page 3)

· DV project is part of the Southern Poverty Law Project’s Bandana Project (Page 1)

· From the Executive Director:  Funding for Legal Services takes center stage as new administration begins in NY (Page 3)

· Pesticide education to go high tech (Page 2)

· New FLSNY brochure available for distribution (Page 3)

· United Way of Greater Rochester kicks off fundraising—Remember FLSNY as a designated donor agency. (Page 3)

· Using Google Earth for a down-to-earth problem (Page 4)

Farmworker Legal Services of New York, Inc.

Bandanas Display

¨ Red Creek  Agri-Business Child Development Center (ABCD) - Red Creek, NY

¨ Society for the Protection and Care of Children—Rochester, NY

¨ Social Justice Center, Inc., Albany, New York in collaboration with New York State Coalition Against Sexual Assault—Albany, NY

¨ WNY Crime Victims Coalition Candle Light Vigil April 18th at 7pm at the Orleans County Courthouse, Albion NY

These events are subject to change, please contact us for updates.