Last week, Flor Martinez Zaragoza announced that a farm worker labor strike tagged #Huelgaparaladignidad was being organized by herself and undocumented farm workers.
The 30-year-old is known for her popular Instagram account @flowerinspanish, where she posts content about the undocumented experience. A large part of her digital advocacy focuses on farm workers—the announcement on July 5 about a potential farm worker labor strike being organized generated controversy. @RiseIndigenous, an Instagram account with more than 200K followers, describes itself as an Indigenous arts initiative dedicated to Indigenous community empowerment & social justice awareness, alleges that Zaragoza is the one urging farmworkers, and that an action like that can put migrants in danger.
“Some people got upset because it's not the regular way of organizing this, but at the end of the day, I mean, that's how organizations started,” said Zaragoza. “That's how many unions and orgs started, a group of people, and in this case, a group of farm workers deciding to stand up and fight for something because they know they're under attack.”
L.A. TACO has not been put in contact with other organizers of #Huelgaparaladignidad at the time of this publication.
The idea for a labor strike was born in an organizing group chat that was created by a farm worker, according to Zaragoza. In that group chat, composed of farm workers and community organizers, a farm worker from Fresno brought up the idea of a work stop, according to Zaragoza.