United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 02/21/2011 North Country News (CA): Forty Acres Becomes Historic Landmark
- 02/21/2011 Bakersfield Now (CA): UFW compound gets top national honor
- 02/21/2011 Mercury News (CA): Farmworker movement site dedicated as historic
- 02/21/2011 Change.org: California Debates Approval of Cancer-Causing Neurotoxin, Methyl Iodide
- 02/21/2011 KGET 17 (CA): 40 acres gets national designation (includes video)
- 02/20/2011 Bakesfield.com (CA): HILDA SOLIS — Still harvesting the fruits of Chavez’s labor
- 02/19/2011 La Opinion: Editorial – Extremism in Arizona
- 02/18/2011 New America Media: New Study Reveals Dangers of Prenatal Pesticide Exposure
- 02/18/2011 Change.org: Still No Justice in 17-Year-Old Farmworker’s Death
- 02/16/2011 Hundreds join U.S. Interior Secretary Salazar, UFW president and Chavez family in dedicating Delano’s ‘Forty Acres’ as a National Historic Landmark
- 02/15/2011 Fox News Latino: Bill Requiring Hospitals to Check Immigration Status in Arizona Causes Concern (includes video)
- 02/15/2011 Daily Kos: No Justice From California For Dead Farmworker (includes video)
- 02/13/2011 NBC bay area, Comunidad, Part 2 (CA): UFW Vice President Merlyn Calderon discusses their campaign against the plea deal in the case of 17 year old Maria Isabel’s heat death. (video)
- 02/11/2011 Fox News Latino: Farmworker Advocacy Group Says Agricultural Business Depends on Undocumented Labor
- 02/11/2011 Stockton Record (CA): Plea deal in farm worker’s death sparks protest
- 02/11/2011 Fox Boston, Newscore: National Institutes of Health links pesticides to Parkinson’s
- 02/10/2011 San Francisco Chronicle: Calif. Advocates campaign in teen farmworker death
- 02/10/2011 The Prospector, Univ. of Texas at El Paso: UTEP Loves Cesar Chavez — March 31 declared a ‘no classes’ day
- 02/10/2011 La Opinion: Editorial — Economy and immigration
- 02/10/2011 Bakersfield Now (CA): Landmark status nets landmark visit to Delano’s Forty Acres
- 02/09/2011 Family of teen heat stroke death victim launching campaign to demand judge reject plea bargain deal
- 02/09/2011 Change.org: Victory! University of Texas-El Paso Reinstates Cesar Chavez Day
- 02/09/2011 Pacific Northwet Inlander (WA).: Si, Se Puede
- 02/08/2011 Boston Globe: Immigration game hits wrong note with advocates
- 02/08/2011 KGET 17 (CA): Sun World International employees protest hundreds of layoffs (includes video 1:57)