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How the Spanos Family Built a Fortune Selling Bologna Sandwiches to Mexican Farmworkers
*Why you should read this: Because a family worth $2.6 billion is asking the City of San Diego, with 1.4 million Latinos – 35 percent of the population, to use public […]
For Female Farmworkers, Work Never Stops
*From the article: ” This story uplifts the voices of women who find themselves stuck in cycles of poverty.” VL By Paulina Rojas, Coachella Unincporporates/New America Media (8 minute read) […]
Historic Farmworker Overtime Bill Awaits Governor Brown’s Nod
*Do yourself a favor. Check you calendar and realize that it’s 2016 and this is just now happening. VL By Viji Sundaram, New America Media (2.5 minute read) After decades of […]
Fate of Farmworker Overtime Bill in Hands of the Assembly
*This is happening today in California. Farmworkers aren’t protected under the Fair Labor Act of 1938. They don’t get overtime pay afer 40 hours worked per week. They get overtime […]
Puerto Rican farmworkers fired for being less productive than Mexicans, they claim
*I hate it when Latinos are pitted againast each other. VL By Elizabeth Llorente, Fox News Latino (2.5 minute read) A group of Puerto Rican farmworkers who were brought to Michigan […]
California Farmworker: Picking Peas Should Bring a Better Life
*I hope you read beyond the headline. It’s a worthy read, a first person account of working in the fields, picking peas, for a miserable wage. Rosalia Martinez is a […]
Thousands of Farmworkers in California Can’t Make a Living
*”In northern San Diego County, many strawberry pickers sleep out of doors on hillsides and in ravines.” This is beyond reprehensible. VL By David Bacon, New America Media NAM editor’s note: […]
Farmworkers Activist Dolores Huerta Will Be Focus of Smithsonian Exhibit
*This is the first time the Smithsonian’s One Life series honors a Latina. The exhibit runs from July 3 through May 2016. VL By Suzanne Gamboa, NBC News Dolores Huerta […]
Farmworker Women Speaking Up on Domestic Violence
*Financial dependence, cultural acceptance, fear of deportation are just a few of the reasons that farm worker women have kept silent. That’s beginning to change. VL By Brenda Rincon, New […]
California’s rules displace children of migrant farmworkers from school and community
*Latino children make up the bulk of this invisible population that feel as if they don’t belong in their community. Technically, they don’t. VL By Associated Press/Fox News Latino WATSONVILLE, […]