United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 04/11/2019 ABC News: Fresno Unified honors Cesar Chavez with special ceremony and march in Downtown Fresno.
- 04/10/2019 The Reality Check Stories and Photographs by David Bacon: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE ARCHIVES – COACHELLA’S PALMEROS – 1992
- 04/08/2019 Sojourners: Bless the Hands That Picked This Food
- 04/08/2019 Civil Eats: The Farmworkers Who Pick Your Halo Mandarins Just Organized a Massive Labor Strike
- 04/07/2019 Sacramento Bee: #UFWToo. Union head Teresa Romero wants us to remember the farmworkers
- 04/06/2019 ABC 7: Farmworker to physician: Dr. Ramon Resa, who worked at Central Valley farm picking cotton at age 3, shares story of resilience
- 04/05/2019 Register Pajaronian: Bill would streamline farmworker housing
- 04/04/2019 San Antonio Express News: Hundreds march to commemorate civil rights leaders, César E. Chávez
- 04/03/2019 The Californian: Rivas’ Farmworker Housing Act hopes to streamline process to build farmworker housing
- 04/03/2019 Agri-Pulse: Democrats look to farmers, workers for compromise on H-2A reforms
- 04/03/2019 The Sacramento Bee: Teresa Romero New UFW President
- 04/02/2019 USC Annenberg Media: Yes She Can! Teresa Romero, first Latina elected to lead the UFW
- 04/02/2019 Pass ‘Blue Card’ bill recognizing immigrant farm workers who feed the nation, former UFW president will urge House subcommittee
- 03/31/2019 KSBY (CA): Central Coast vegetable workers march to celebrate Cesar Chavez’s birthday in Salinas
- 03/31/2019 NBC News: On Cesar Chavez Day, a look at the labor leader’s complex legacy
- 03/31/2019 Mendocino Voice: Today is Cesar Chavez Day in California and much of the Southwest
- 03/31/2019 Salinas Californian: PHOTOS Cesar Chavez March in Salinas
- 03/31/2019 KSBY San Luis Obispo News (CA): Central Coast vegetable workers march to celebrate Cesar Chavez’s birthday in Salinas
- 03/31/2019 Los Angeles Daily News: On their feet from Mission Hills to Pacoima, a community’s ‘March for Justice’ remembers Cesar Chavez
- 03/30/2019 Roswell Daily Record: NM congressional members seek to honor César Chávez
- 03/30/2019 Austin American-Statesman: March, rally honors Cesar E. Chavez
- 03/29/2019 KESQ (CA): Local students honor Cesar Chavez in Coachella
- 03/29/2019 KERO 23 ABC News (CA): 25 people become citizens at the Cesar Chavez National Monument
- 03/29/2019 AZCentral: What did Cesar Chavez fight for? The answer is just as relevant today
- 03/29/2019 UFW Pres. Teresa Romero & farm workers march in Salinas on Cesar Chavez’s birthday for federal ‘Blue Card’ bill offering immigrants relief from fear