Everyday Angels with Marie Elisa ( Norma Flores López , Advocate)

Blogtalk LPS Radio Network - Everyday Angels with Marie Elisa, welcomes

Norma Flores López, Director of the Children in the Fields Campaign at AFOP and Chair of the Child Labor Coalition’s Domestic Issues Committee. She is an advocate for migrant farmworker children’s rights raising awareness of their issues. Norma has testified before Congress and appeared on national news including, 60 Minutes, presenting issues related to child labor in agriculture. She has been consulted by international governments on strategies to reduce child labor.

Norma has firsthand knowledge of the migrant farmworker life as she began working in the fields at the age of 12, in Southern Texas where she was born. She continued working until she graduated from high school. Norma holds a Master’s of Public Policy from George Mason University, B.A. in Communications, University of Texas Pan-American in Edinburg, Texas, and studied abroad at the Universidad de Salamanca in Spain.

Tonight’s show will focus on child labor law issues and the disconnect between what we eat and the high price other’s pay for our sustenance to arrive on our dinner plates.

Contact Norma at: 202-828-6006 ext. 106; email flores@afop.org

How to listen to the show? You can access the show by clicking on the link below:

http://www.blogtalkradio.com/lpsradionetwork/2014/11/26/everyday-angels-with-marie-elisa             

Tuesday November 25, 2014

8:00 pm EST to 9:00 pm (5:00 pm PST to 6:00 pm)