United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 11/28/2016 Independent Weekly (NC): The U.S. Department of Labor Hits a State Senator’s Farm with a Conspicuously Small Fine
- 11/18/2016 Campus Times (CA): Playwright Luis Valdez talks change and hope
- 11/17/2016 Mother Jones: Trump’s Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren’t Bad for You
- 11/16/2016 Ventura County Star (CA): Rules limiting pesticides near schools debated in Oxnard
- 11/11/2016 Nation of Change: EPA approval of Monsanto’s dicamba will ‘massively increase use of toxic pesticides’ on GMO crops
- 11/11/2016 UPI.com: Study finds link between pesticide exposure and microbiome changes
- 11/09/2016 UFW’s Arturo S. Rodriguez: ‘Making progress will be more difficult, but our practice of organizing for the long term will let us continue to win justice’
- 11/08/2016 KERO Ch 23 (CA): UFW workers and Trump supporters were out hoping to persuade people to vote
- 11/07/2016 Modern Farmer: ¡Viva los Campesinos! The United Farm Workers Speak Out on the Election
- 11/07/2016 Massachusetts Daily Collegian: State residents raise questions in spar over Ballot Question 3
- 11/05/2016 KQED (CA): How a Farmworker ‘Company Town’ Is Taking Shape in the Salinas Valley
- 11/05/2016 KERO Ch 23 (CA): UFW launches door-to-door campaign
- 11/04/2016 UFW endorses Darren Soto for U.S. Congress
- 11/04/2016 Orlando Political Observer: United Farm Workers Endorse Darren Soto in 9th Congressional District Contest
- 11/04/2016 UFW’s Arturo S. Rodriguez in Shafter & Delano to begin four-day door-to-door campaign to voters
- 11/03/2016 News Chief: National United Farm Workers union president urges Polk Hispanics to vote
- 11/03/2016 The Ledger: National union president urges Hispanics to vote UFW news
- 11/02/2016 AlterNet: The Fate of Millions of Animals Will Be Determined on Election Day
- 11/02/2016 Apopka Chief (FL): Non-profit organizations drummed up early voting awareness with a demonstration
- 11/02/2016 Huffington Post: Junot Diaz Urges Latinos To Fight For Justice And Equality In Powerful Video
- 11/02/2016 Davis Enterprise (CA): West Sac farm fined for spraying workers with pesticides
- 10/31/2016 Sacramento Bee: Farmworkers sickened by pesticide to receive restitution
- 10/31/2016 Episcopal News Service: Episcopal, Lutheran ministries meet the needs of women farmworkers
- 10/31/2016 San Diego Free Press: Chunky Sanchez:“A good man, an extraordinary musician, and a tireless Chicano activist”
- 10/31/2016 KPBS (CA): Musician And Chicano Rights Activist Ramon ‘Chunky’ Sanchez Dies at 64