United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 03/16/2017 ThinkProgress: Advocates call for humanitarian response after temporary halt to Trump’s Muslim ban
- 03/16/2017 Fast Company: Silicon Valley Tries To Turn Its Newfound Political Awareness Into Action
- 03/16/2017 KCBX (CA): Proposed rules for pesticide use near schools diluted
- 03/15/2017 Vida en el Valle (CA): Granddaughter of the late César Chávez shares his legacy
- 03/15/2017 The Almanac Online: Hundreds turn out for tech rally against federal policies
- 03/14/2017 New York Times: Unsealed documents raise questions on Monsanto weed killer
- 03/14/2017 Coos Bay World: Honor Cesar Chavez, United Farm Workers Union
- 03/14/2017 Treehugger: New UN report blames pesticides for food insecurity
- 03/13/2017 Boston Globe: Amid Trump’s immigration crackdown, there’s fear on farms
- 03/13/2017 mySanAntonio.com: This farm worker is no ‘bad hombre’
- 03/13/2017 Civil Eats: New UN Report: Pesticides Don’t Feed the World
- 03/12/2017 UFW: New Trump Muslim- and refugee-ban still‘a grievous affront’ to basic American values
- 03/12/2017 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez on withdrawal of Labor Secretary nominee Andrew Puzder
- 03/11/2017 MarketWatch: This one basket of strawberries contained 20 different pesticides
- 03/10/2017 Down to Earth Magazine: A common class of insecticides puts farmers at high risk of diabetes
- 03/09/2017 Inside Climate News: Chief Environmental Justice Official at EPA Resigns, With Plea to Pruitt to Protect Vulnerable Communities
- 03/09/2017 Desert Sun (CA): Coachella approves design for Cesar Chavez monument
- 03/09/2017 Chico News & Review (CA): Farmworkers at risk
- 03/09/2017 Moultrie Observe (GA): Farm worker wins appeal over language issue
- 03/07/2017 Press TV : US civil rights, Muslim groups denounce revised travel banPress TV : US civil rights, Muslim groups denounce revised travel ban
- 03/07/2017 WION (India): Trump’s revised travel order remains Muslim ban: US rights group
- 03/07/2017 San Bernardino American News (CA): 6th Annual César E. Chávez 5K Run/Walk
- 03/06/2017 Vida en el Valle (CA): ‘Little Joe’ Hernández, the Tejano ‘cotton picker’ still going strong at 76
- 03/06/2017 Inside Sources: Unions: Second Travel Ban Is Repackaged Discrimination
- 03/06/2017 ABC 10 (CA): Famous speech writer remembers his friend Cesar Chavez