United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Heat News
- 09/14/2020 Democracy Now! Pandemic, Wildfires & Heat Wave: Undocumented Farmworkers Face “Triple Threat” as West Coast Burns
- 09/14/2020 NPR: Wildfires Make Dangerous Air For Farmworkers: ‘It’s Like You Can’t Breathe’
- 09/13/2020 Santa Barbara News-Press: A growing concern
- 09/13/2020 CAL Matters: California farmworkers say they didn’t get masks during wildfires
- 09/12/2020 Statesman Journal: COVID-19 and now wildfire smoke, vineyard workers vulnerable as grape harvests push on
- 09/12/2020 Common Dreams: With Wildfires Tearing Through the West, Biden Slams Trump Denial and Calls Climate Crisis an ‘Imminent, Existential Threat’
- 09/11/2020 Grist: How California can recover from wildfires without leaving its most vulnerable behind
- 09/11/2020 El Observador: Asi celebran nuestros trabajadores esenciales
- 09/11/2020 Yahoo Noticias!: Trabajadores de campo en California afrontan duras condiciones por incendios
- 09/11/2020 Pamplin Media Group: Wildfire smoke triggers health concerns
- 09/07/2020 City Watch: “Touted as ‘Essential’… Treated as Disposable”: Migrant Farm Workers Toil Inside Wildfire Evacuation Zones
- 09/07/2020 NPR: Farm Workers Face Double Threat: Wildfire Smoke And COVID-19
- 09/06/2020 The Intercept: In California’s Wine Country, Undocumented Grape Pickers Forced to Work in Fire Evacuation Zones
- 09/03/2020 CBS News: Hazardous air quality threatens California farmworkers after devastating wildfires
- 08/31/2020 San Francisco Chronicle: Monterey County fires: Steinbeck Country suffers wrath of coronavirus, climate change
- 08/30/2020 The Mercury News: Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety
- 08/27/2020 Cal Matters: Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety
- 08/26/2020 The Baltimore Sun: Heat, smoke and COVID are battering the workers who feed America
- 08/25/2020 The New York Times: Heat, Smoke and Covid Are Battering the Workers Who Feed America
- 08/25/2020 ABC 10: First the coronavirus pandemic and now wildfire smoke: A look at farmworkers’ health
- 08/25/2020 ABC 10: Farm workers continue to work during the wildfires, in the smoke
- 08/24/2020 San Francisco Eater: As Wildfires Rage, a Bay Area Taco Truck Is Feeding Undocumented Farmworkers
- 08/22/2020 The Guardian: ‘An impossible choice’: farmworkers pick a paycheck over health despite smoke-filled air
- 08/22/2020 The Salinas Californian: Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety
- 08/21/2020 NBC4 Los Angeles: Farmworkers Toil During Poor Air Quality Brought on by Wildfires