LatinaLista — Cesar Chavez’s life has become legend among generations of Latinos who have grown up learning about his courage in standing up for farm workers’ rights. This month, March 28, his life also becomes a full-length movie. In…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
