LatinaLista — This year is the 20th anniversary of the passing of Cesar Chavez. Unfortunately, while many gains have been made for farmworkers, there still remain injustices that current farmworkers face every day. Like Chavez, who exemplified peaceful protests, today’s farmworkers want to not only commemorate his birthday this month but also carry on the [...]
United Farm Workers launch campaign to get unemployed Americans to fill farm job vacancies
LatinaLista — The argument that undocumented immigrants do the work most Americans don’t want to do doesn’t apply to the Gulf Oil spill — yet. The Pensacola office of Workforce EscaRosa, an unemployment agency that serves the Florida region of beaches that find themselves littered with tar balls, fielded over 5,000 applications from unemployed people [...]
Online petition sends message to Giumarra Vineyards that sexual harassment and retaliatory practices against farm workers is unacceptable
LatinaLista — There’s no industry in this country probably more dependent on immigrant labor than the agricultural industry. Latinos, both legal and undocumented, make up the bulk of workers who pick this nation’s fruits and vegetables. It’s the one industry where not much in technological advances has been made regarding the picking of the products [...]
Latino leadership needed to counter TX State Board of Education’s attempt to write minorities out of history
LatinaLista — The Southern Education Foundation released a report last week, “A New Diverse Majority,” that found, that for the first time in history, more than half of all the students attending public schools in the 15 Southern states (Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Kentucky, Maryland, [...]
United Farm Workers provide free downloadable calendar with New Year’s message — Se Se Puede!
LatinaLista — Did you know that calendars have pretty much been around since the dawn of humanity – give or take a few thousand years. The start of any new year without one is like a bad omen or something. These days, there’s no excuse as to why you don’t have a calendar. In addition [...]
For the nation’s migrant farmworkers, high temps creating a “Black Summer”
LatinaLista — It’s being called the “Black Summer” in the San Joaquin Valley of California these days. Why? San Joaquin Valley farm workers spread out to pick the season’s harvest of carrots. (Source: ucdavis.edu) Because last Thursday yet another farm worker died of heat stroke. Jorge Herrera, 37, of Delano, California died almost four weeks [...]