Join us outside the Santa Maria Strawberry Festival on April 27 – Justice Can’t Wait

This May Day, we’re showing up loud and clear in solidarity with farmworkers at the Santa Maria Strawberry Festival, and we want you there with us.

While the festival celebrates strawberries, it leaves out the very people who make the harvest possible. Farmworkers power a multi-billion-dollar industry in California, yet they’re still fighting for wages they can live on.

This isn’t just about fairness – it’s about people power. And when we show up together, we shift what’s possible through our collective voice and power.

Alianza Campesina is calling on our comunidad, our allies, and every person who believes in dignity and justice to join us for a peaceful but powerful presence outside the festival. We will continue to demand that the Santa Barbara County Board of Supervisors pass a living wage ordinance for farmworkers – because everyone deserves to earn wages that allow them to provide for their families.

Farmworkers deserve more than our gratitude — they deserve justice, dignity, and a living wage. Bring your friends and your voice. Together, we’ll make it undeniable: Justice can’t wait!

In solidarity,

Alianza Campesina
A farmworker-led partnership with CAUSE and MICOP

Lucas Zucker and Hazel Davalos
Co-Executive Directors
CAUSE

&

Arcenio J. Lopez, Executive Director
Genevieve Flores-Haro, Associate Director
MICOP

P.S. CAUSE is hiring a Worker Outreach Organizer and Manager to help empower farmworkers with vital labor and immigrant rights education. Applications are due this Friday, April 25 – learn more here!