United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News Coverage
- 06/05/2018 Capital & Main: Growing Pains: Guest Farm Workers Face Exploitation, Dangerous Conditions – Part 1
- 06/03/2018 Madera Tribune (CA): Determination leads to graduation for farm worker-head of her family
- 06/01/2018 Public News Service: Farmworkers Challenge Pesticide Training Delay
- 05/31/2018 Washington Post: The Energy 202: California files back-to-back lawsuits against the EPA
- 05/31/2018 Reuters: States and worker groups sue EPA over pesticide training rule for workers
- 05/31/2018 Bakersfielde Californian (CA): ICE deports closest relative of Delano children orphaned following http://www.bakersfield.com/news/ice-deports-closest-relative-of-delano-children-orphaned-following March car chase
- 05/31/2018 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA): Uncle of kids whose parents died while fleeing ICE deported
- 05/31/2018 KERO 23ABC News (CA): UFW: ICE deports family member of couple killed in crash
- 05/31/2018 Desert Sun (CA): Organizer’s 20-year quest to honor Cesar Chavez finds success in Coachella street renaming
- 05/30/2018 Business Insider: Over 10,000 migrant children are now in US government custody at 100 shelters in 14 states
- 05/22/2018 NBC News: Pruitt bars AP, CNN from EPA summit on contaminants, guards push reporter out of building
- 05/21/2018 Salinas Californian: UFW opens new Salinas center in Oldtown
- 05/18/2018 Mother Jones: If House Republicans Get Their Way, Rural Americans Are Screwed
- 05/17/2018 Vida en el Valle: Latino Spirit Awards: Faith Flórez advocates for farmworker safety from heat
- 05/17/2018 Ventura County Star (CA): 2 Santa Paula men, 1 Fontana man arrested on suspicion of defauding innocent farmworkers
- 05/17/2018 Salinas Californian: OPINION: California leads the country in pesticide spray bans, now how about chlorpyrifos?
- 05/17/2018 Desert Sun (CA): Despite a turbulent 1968, Cesar Chavez and Robert F. Kennedy shared a vision of economic justice
- 05/11/2018 Yakima Herald (WA): Court rules piece-rate pickers must be paid for down time
- 05/10/2018 Associated Press: Court: Piece-Rate Pickers Must Be Paid for ‘Down Time’
- 05/08/2018 Los Angeles Times Editorial Board: What kind of country would tear apart and lock up families fleeing violence in their homelands? Ours
- 05/05/2018 The Hill: California asks judge to toss out Trump admin suit over sanctuary laws
- 05/01/2018 Dollars and Sense: How Filipino Migrants Gave the Grape Strike Its Radical Politics
- 04/24/2018 Syracuse.com (NY): ICE raid on Rome farm: Worker to remain in detention, judge rules
- 04/24/2018 New York Times: E.P.A. Announces a New Rule. One Likely Effect: Less Science in Policymaking.
- 04/23/2018 Angeles News: Catholic LA -Statewide farm workers and community leaders honor memory and legacy of Cesar Chavez at Cathedral Mass