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News Coverage
- 01/26/2012 State Impact (FL): How One Teenage Student in Florida Became The First Martyr Of Cesar Chavez’ Farm Workers
- 01/25/2012 Salinas Californian: Farm labor contractor fined for violations
- 01/24/2012 Grist: Can healthy food come from unhealthy workers?
- 01/19/2012 KRDO (CO): U.S. Dept. Of Labor Fines Jensen Farms Owner (includes video)
- 01/19/2012 Occupy Seattle: Occupy Seattle Joins in Solidarity with the United Farm Workers
- 01/18/2012 Huffington Post: Arizona’s Attack on Chicano History and Culture Is Against Everyone
- 01/18/2012 Public News Service: Strawberry Pesticide Methyl Iodide On Trial
- 01/16/2012 Fresh Plaza: California accused of improper OK to strawberry pesticide
- 01/16/2012 Huffington Post: Latino Leaders Who Were Inspired By Martin Luther King And The Civil Rights Movement (includes slideshow
- 01/16/2012 Colbert Nation: Activist Scott Douglas advocates the overturn of Alabama’s immigrant law and calls for a single fair immigration law to be applied across the U.S. (video)
- 01/16/2012 ScrippsNews: Pesticides put farmworkers at risk
- 01/15/2012 Detroit Free Press: UAW Vice President Cindy Estrada shows ‘old-school fire’
- 01/13/2012 Occupational Health and Safety: Cal/OSHA Cites Two Contractors Following Heat-Related Fatality
- 01/13/2012 Western Farm Press: California farm labor contractors issued citations after heat deaths
- 01/13/2012 San Jose Mercury News (CA): California accused of improper OK to strawberry pesticide
- 01/13/2012 AZcentral: Arpaio protesters — ‘We want him behind bars’
- 01/12/2012 KQED (CA): Judge Puts Onus on State to Prove It Considered Methyl Iodide Alternatives
- 01/12/2012 Grist Magazine: The little county that could get California to rethink methyl iodide
- 01/11/2012 PR Newswire: Cal/OSHA Issues Citations in First Confirmed Heat Related Fatality for 2011
- 01/11/2012 Bloomberg Businessweek: Cal-OSHA cites, fines company for farmworker death
- 01/11/2012 CBS Los Angeles: California Company Fined $74K For Allowing Farm Hand To Die Of Heat Stroke
- 01/11/2012 Valley News (CA): Company Fined for Alleged Failure to Protect Field Worker from Deadly Heat
- 01/11/2012 Bakersfield Californian: Cal-OSHA cites two labor contractors
- 01/11/2012 AzCentral: Funeral services for Phoenix Councilman Michael Nowakowski’s mother
- 01/10/2012 KION 46 (CA): President gets Backing On the Eve of New Hampshire Primary