United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 03/15/2011 Steinberg bill makes it easier for farm workers to protect themselves after state, courts fail to protect them
- 03/14/2011 Talking Point Memo: Kansas GOPer: Let’s Shoot Illegal Immigrants Like Pigs
- 03/12/2011 New York Times: Itinerant Life Weighs on Farmworkers’ Children
- 03/10/2011 Lodio News, AP: Farm supervisors take plea deal in worker’s heat death
- 03/10/2011 Monterey County Weekly (CA): The Midas Touch, The Midas Effect
- 03/10/2011 Stockton Record (CA): Plea deals accepted in death of 17-year-old pregnant farm worker (video)
- 03/10/2011 Bakersfield Californian: Assemblyman Luis Alejo testifies on behalf of farmworkers
- 03/10/2011 Stockton Record (CA): No jail for farm labor officials (includes two videos)
- 03/09/2011 CBS News: Farm supervisors take plea deal in California heat death
- 03/09/2011 Huffington Post: Farmworker Death In Vineyard Results In Community Service Hours For Employers
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): Farmworker’s Brother Speaks Out (video)
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): UFW Reacts To Worker Death Plea Deal (video)
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): UFW Rep: ‘Farmworkers Are Dying’ (video)
- 03/09/2011 NBC Bay Area (CA): No Jail Time in Farmworker’s Death
- 03/09/2011 Statement from Maria Isabel Vazquez Jimenez’s uncle Doroteo Jimenez from March 9, 2011 sentancing hearing
- 03/09/2011 UFW President Arturo Rodriguez: ‘Needless tragedies will continue’ so long as government fails to protect farm workers
- 03/09/2011 9 a.m. Wednesday at Stockton courthouse – Family, clergy, UFW president at hearing over plea deal in death of teen farm worker
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): No Jail Time For Farmworker Death (includes video)
- 03/09/2011 KTXL (CA): Defendants in Farmworker’s Death Avoid Jailtime
- 03/09/2011 KRSO 1350 (CA): Farm supervisors take plea deal in heat death
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): From The Field: No Jail Time In Worker’s Death (video)
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): From The Field: Farmworker Activists Angry (video)
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): From The Field: Plea Deal Results In Protest (video)
- 03/09/2011 KCRA 3 (CA): Plea Deal Sparks Protest At Capitol (includes video)
- 03/09/2011 KION 46 (CA): United Farm Workers Upset Over Plea Deal (includes video)