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February 4, 2012
Meet the Genius Who Created the Immigration and Migrant Worker Meme That Set Facebook on Fire – interview
from latinorebels.com :: Tagged agriculture, facebook, farm worker, interview, migrant
February 2, 2012
Retired teacher Frank Bardacke, who in his youth was a member of the United Farm Workers union, says that it’s a “mistake to idolize union leaders like Cesar Chavez”
from laht.com :: Tagged cesar chavez, farm worker, United Farm Workers
January 23, 2012
newamericamedia: Daughter of Farmworker Becomes San Francisco’s First Out Bisexual Supervisor – Christina Olague
from newamericamedia.org :: Tagged farm worker
January 22, 2012
huffingtonpost: Eric Jensen Of Listeria-Tainted Cantaloupe Farms Is Fined For Provide Inadequate Migrant Worker Housing
from huffingtonpost.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm, farm worker
November 21, 2011
Migrant Farm Worker Housing as Shameful as Ever
from newamericamedia.org :: Tagged farm worker
November 14, 2011
Book Review: Dr. Alfredo Quinones-Hinojosa’s “Becoming Dr. Q: My Journey from Migrant Farm Worker to Brain Surgeon”
from hispanicreader.com :: Tagged book, Book Review, farm worker
November 8, 2011
60 Farmwokers Stranded After Refusing to Work Below Minimum Wage – Washington State
from colorlines.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
September 29, 2011
Hecho en América – GQ covers farm workers – Jeanne Marie Laskas spends a season with a group of these nomads—the constant wanderers who put fruit on our table
from gq.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
September 8, 2011
New Report From Farmworker Justice & United Farm Workers Documents Abuses in Guest Worker Program
from americasvoiceonline.org :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker, United Farm Workers
September 6, 2011
Colorado corn farmer has trouble finding US workers
from chron.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
Banned Pesticide Use Remains High in CA Strawberry Fields – and guess who gets to go pick those strawberries
from newamericamedia.org :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
September 2, 2011
Think Your Summer was Hot? Try Working in the Agricultural Fields of the US.
from imagine2050.newcomm.org :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
August 27, 2011
North Carolina: Hurricane shelters in Rocky Mount and Wilson were unexpectedly crowded Friday with migrant workers fleeing inland from their jobs as seafood pickers near the coast.
from newsobserver.com :: Tagged farm worker, Hurricane
August 24, 2011
Marisa Treviño: Desperate California farmworkers start 200-mile march to convince Gov. Brown to sign bill ensuring fair treatment
from latinalista.net :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker, Marisa Treviño, United Farm Workers
August 18, 2011
Could Farms Survive Without Illegal Labor? – A New York Times ‘Room for Debate’ feature with 6 different viewpoints
from nytimes.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
A federal appeals court awarded nearly $2 million on Wednesday to more than 600 Latino farm workers who accused a farm labor contractor and two Washington state growers of violating federal labor laws – Yakima Valley
from google.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker, Washington DC, Yakima
August 2, 2011
Movie Review: “The Harvest/La Cosecha,” (2011) – Children in the Fields, but Not at Play – documentary about child migrant farmworkers
from movies.nytimes.com :: Tagged agriculture, children, documentary, farm worker, Film, latina
July 13, 2011
This Summer, Farmworkers’ Kids Skip Classroom for Fields
from newamericamedia.org :: Tagged agriculture, children, farm worker
June 30, 2011
US Labor Department announces nearly $84 million for career training and housing assistance to migrant and seasonal farmworkers
:: Tagged agriculture, Department of Labor, farm worker, government
June 29, 2011
California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Tuesday that would have made it far easier for farmworkers to join labor unions – disappointing and angering dozens of farmworkers who had camped outside his office late into the night Tuesday to try to pressure him into signing the measure.
from sfgate.com :: Tagged agriculture, California, farm worker, labor unions
June 27, 2011
Convicts or Illegals: Georgia Hunts for Farmworkers As Tough Immigration Law Takes Hold
from time.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker, Georgia
June 22, 2011
Georgia puts probationers to work harvesting crops – yielding mixed results, on the first two days, all the probationers quit by mid-afternoon – (unless everyone wants to pay more for their fruits and veggies we are going to have a problem just as our nation’s farmers will)
from today.msnbc.msn.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker, Georgia
June 15, 2011
Indentured Servitude in America’s Tomato Fields – You think this kind of thing can’t happen in the land of the free, think again.
from planetgreen.discovery.com :: Tagged agriculture, farm worker
May 26, 2011
The nine-member California Historic Resources Commission voted May 19 to nominate the National Chavez Center, where Cesar Chavez lived and led the farm worker movement during his last 22 years at La Paz in Keene, for placement on the National Historic Registry.
from bakersfield.com :: Tagged California, cesar chavez, farm worker
May 23, 2011
Videos – Farm labor: Children in the fields – In agriculture, children as young as 12 are allowed to work unlimited hours outside of school. Byron Pitts reports on the “Migrant Stream” and the families who are part of it whose children work alongside them in the fields for minimum wage. – 60 Minutes
from cbsnews.com :: Tagged agriculture, children, farm, farm worker, report, video
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