United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 11/27/2012 Burbank Leader (CA): Op-Ed — No challenge too great or obstacle too high
- 11/27/2012 ABC News: 23 Defining Moments in Immigration Policy History
- 11/26/2012 Belfast (Ireland) Telegraph: Pena — Chavez role means a lot to me
- 11/21/2012 New America Media: Latino Media to White House: Immigration Reform Now!
- 11/21/2012 New York Daily News: Let’s hope for fair and balanced immigration reform
- 11/21/2012 The Atlantic: For Migrant Workers, Still the Harvest, and the Shame
- 11/13/2012 NBC Latino: Cesar Chavez’s son on why the Colorado River must be saved
- 11/10/2012 Press-Enterprise (CA): RIVERSIDE — Cesar Chavez monument to rise in March
- 11/08/2012 The Daily Beast: America Ferrera — Latino Voters Finally Wake Up and Exercise Their Power
- 11/08/2012 Huffington Post: Immigration Reform Effort To Begin In Senate Post-Inauguration
- 11/07/2012 UFW: Latinos’ key role in Obama victory tells GOP to ‘abandon your hostility against immigrants and Latinos or accept permanent minority status’
- 11/06/2012 UFW Foundation responds to the impact of the Latino vote on election results and the future of Immigration Reform and the Deferred Action program
- 11/05/2012 New America Media: Farm Workers Left Out of Prop.37 Discussion, But Have a Stake
- 11/04/2012 Latin Heat: The Latino Side of Politics
- 10/28/2012 New York Times: Silos Loom as Death Traps on American Farms
- 10/26/2012 Daily Kos: GOTV Blogathon: President Obama used his power to say Si Se Puede!
- 10/25/2012 L.A. Union (AFL-CIO): Phoenix City Councilmember Michael Nowakowski joins L.A. labor to denounce shadowy Arizona group for dumping anonymous $11 million into ‘Yes on 32’
- 10/23/2012 Capital Press: Farmworkers’ suit alleges state doesn’t enforce heat rules
- 10/23/2012 NBC Latino: Cafecito: America Ferrera talkes about the importance of voting as well ad her role in the up coming Cesar Chavez movie (video)
- 10/20/2012 In These Times: Pesticide Threat Looms Large Over Farmworker Families
- 10/19/2012 KBAK-TV (CBS) (CA): Farmworkers sue state regulators over heat rules
- 10/19/2012 Daily Breeze: Larry Itliong Day in Carson honors man who started Delano Grape Strike in 1965
- 10/18/2012 New York Times: Forgotten Hero of Labor Fight; His Son’s Lonely Quest
- 10/18/2012 Los Angeles Times: Farmworkers’ lawsuit claims Cal OSHA failed to enforce regulations
- 10/18/2012 Lawsuit Says Failed Enforcement Means California’s Farm Workers Face Daily Threat of Heat Illness and Death