News Taco To Go: Farmworkers, Tea Party, Surnames & Census

Texas, The U.S. Becoming More Latino Lots Of Latinos Don’t Have spanish Surnames (Like Me) Racist Statement Uncovers Real Tea Party California Law To Give Farmworkers Union Rights

By Dylan J. Anderson, United Farm Workers Recently, both the California Senate and Assembly passed SB 104, “The Fair Treatment for Farm Workers Act.” Introduced by Senator Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), SB 104 […]

And now for a great story out of California, where a group of young Latinas and other high school students organized to protect their families from a harmful pesticide, convincing […]

Eighteen years ago Saturday, César Chávez died. That was 1993. Chávez was originally born in Arizona, but his family later became migrant workers in California, and went on to be […]

A University of California at Berkeley study found that prenatal exposure to pesticides leads to lower IQs in babies. The study found that the use of popular organophosphate pesticides leads to […]

[Editor’s Note: This is a repost from Pa’lante Latino and was written by Victoria Cepeda] It was 1966 when Mexican-American civil rights activist Jesús Salas et. al. founded “Obreros Unidos”, an independent […]

A totally unexpected and educative story from the Honolulu Weekly this week shows that Latinos have a long history in that state. The story starts off talking about Don Francisco […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently settled a discrimination lawsuit alleging that the government didn’t award loans and other federal benefits to minority farmers since the 1960s. The New York Times reports […]

The Southern Poverty Law Center recently published a report called “Injustice on Our Plates: Immigrant Women in the U.S. Food Industry” that interviewed about 150 women working in the food […]

This is good, very good. A commentary written by Bill McEwen published in the Fresno Bee that puts the Thanksgiving feast in proper perspective. When you eat today, thank a […]