CAMPESINAS are risking their lives to put food on our tables while they struggle to feed their own families , lack access to protective equipment and are unable to practice social distancing . The vast majority cannot access financial protections put forth by the federal government . The rapid spread of coronavirus across the globe has revealed what has always been a glaring truth for so many of the essential workers who are the backbone of our society : inequity . From the people who pick our food to the people who deliver our packages , it is the working class and poor who are most vulnerable to the virus and the economic disaster that Covid-19 has laid bare .
V-Day and One Billion Rising have partnered with Alianza Nacional De Campesinas / National Farmworkers Womens Alliance for many years on our intersectional work to end violence against all women and girls , and our Women Workers Rising initiatives . Let us RISE in support of Alianza and farmworkers as they face unprecedented risks in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic .