United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 05/24/2010 Palm Beach Post: Florida growers warn of danger to food supply
- 05/24/2010 BusinessWeek: Pesticide prompts scuffle over safety in California
- 05/24/2010 Central Florida Future: Students join immigration cause
- 05/22/2010 Dallas Morning News: Texas State Board of Education approves new curriculum standards
- 05/21/2010 Sacramento Bee: Viewpoints: Chavez backed hard workers regardless of immigrant status
- 05/20/2010 ParentDish (AP): Conservatives make changes to Texas curriculum
- 05/19/2010 American Immigration Lawyers Ass’n: Governor Brewer, Read Your Own Law!
- 05/19/2010 Arizona Republic: Arizona ethnic studies ban reignites discrimination battle
- 05/17/2010 Green Sheet Farm Forum (AP): Secretary of Agriculture talks immigration in Florida
- 05/17/2010 Reuters: Pesticides tied to ADHD in children in U.S. students
- 05/17/2010 Web MD: Pesticides May Raise Kids’ Risk of ADHD
- 05/16/2010 Amarillo.com (AP): Farmers call for reforms for workers
- 05/15/2010 Politifi: Norma Chávez: Textbooks should reflect diverse history
- 05/14/2010 Borderzine: Demonstrators Invoke César Chávez in Fight Against the Arizona Law (incluldes video 1:02)
- 05/13/2010 Members of the local clergy join workers at Giumarra vineyard praying for no more heat deaths as weather gets warm
- 05/12/2010 Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism Digital News: Agricultural Workers In Salinas Valley Are Food Insecure, Study Finds
- 05/12/2010 The Daily Beast: Did a Child Pick Your Strawberries? (includes video 5:42)
- 05/11/2010 American Immigration Lawyers Ass’n: Behind the Sound Bites on Arizona’s Immigration Law
- 05/11/2010 The Atlantic: Will Immigration Law Doom America’s Lettuce?
- 05/10/2010 Washington Times: Other states taking cue from Arizona law
- 05/09/2010 Associated Press: Farmers: Immigration reform needed for agriculural workers
- 05/09/2010 San Jose Mercury News: Tea party members rally in downtown Morgan Hill
- 05/06/2010 The Californian: Tri-County Latino Elected Officials rally against Arizona immigration law
- 05/05/2010 KPHO.com (video): Chavez’s Grandson Weighs In On Immigration Law (2:12)
- 05/05/2010 PressZoom (press release): US: Child Farmworkers’ Dangerous Lives