Organizing and Rockin'

He organizes workers and he sings, too! Catch the incomparable Baldemar Velasquez this Saturday night as he and Jesse Ponce celebrate the release of their second CD this Saturday in Takoma Park. Velasquez is President of the Farm Labor Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO, (FLOC), which "is both a social movement and a labor union. Our immediate constituency is migrant workers in the agricultural industry, but we are also involved with immigrant workers, Latinos, our local communities, and national and international coalitions concerned with justice.” The FLOC vision emphasizes human rights as the standard and self-determination as the process for achieving these rights. “We struggle for full justice for those who have been marginalized and exploited for the benefit of others, and we have sought to change the structures of society to enable these people a direct voice in their own conditions." Click here for more on FLOC. Velasquez (right in photo above) and Ponce (left), photo courtesy of Joe Uehlein