WA State Dairy Workers Fighting For Union Rights

By Dylan Anderson, United Farm Workers Internet Communications Ruby Ridge is a large dairy located in Eastern Washington. An overwhelming majority of workers employed at the dairy signed union authorization […]

Back to Alabama for the moment, because I read something that I hadn’t seen regarding the issue of work and immigrants and that state’s economy. I came across an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled: Why […]

Dolores Huerta was born in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico but was raised by her single mother in the San Joaquin Valley community of Stockton, California. She became involved with […]

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar announced this week that Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz (La Paz) – the place where labor leader Cesar E. Chavez lived and led […]

After an outcry from American farmers over a shortage of migrant workers in their fields, Republican lawmaker Lamar Smith recently introduced a plan to overhaul the current H-2A program which forces […]

Earlier this month, “The Harvest,” a film about underage farmworkers debuted in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. Following three workers ages 12-16, the film documents their daily lives […]

Georgia is just one of many states to introduce an SB 1070 copycat law and skip arm-in-arm with Arizona down the no-nonsense, iron-fisted-crackdown path as a way to deal with […]

Illinois Dream Act Signed In Into Law U.S. Archbishop: American Roots Are Also Hispanic, Catholic Latino Civil Rights Figures: César Chávez Is Mixed Race A Blend, Combination Or Assortment?

[Editor’s Note: The following is a press release  and photo from the César E. Chávez Foundation.] Richard Chavez, 81, Cesar’s younger brother, helped build the UFW from its earliest days. […]

Last month Dr. Ramiro Casso died at the age of 88. Among the many accomplishments of Casso’s life, one of the most significant was helping to ban the use of […]