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 […]

The Navy is set to name its new ship The USS Cesar E. Chavez tomorrow, MSNBC reported. The naming ceremony will take place in San Diego Tuesday afternoon, MSNBC reports: The […]

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 […]

[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 […]

In Texas currently there is a César Chávez Day, an optional state holiday that public institutions may elect as one of the 12 they celebrate every year. Recently, the University […]

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 […]

Several of my relatives raised watermelons, and one of my memories as an “honorary” farmworker (because I didn’t really have to do it), was being a pitcher who followed the […]