United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 10/06/2017 KERO 23 ABC News (CA): Naturalization ceremony held in Keene at Caesar E. Chavez National Monument
- 10/06/2017 Mercury News: Stanford preserves legacy of late social justice activist Sal Alvarez
- 10/05/2017 Vida en el Valle: ‘We’re in the history books, and I’m ready for another march!’
- 10/04/2017 New Food Economy: Why the vote on H-2C visas is food’s biggest labor battle
- 10/04/2017 WKMS (KY): United Farm Workers Oppose H-2C Guest Worker Bill
- 10/02/2017 Farmworker groups & thousands of Californians demand rapid and rigorous review of brain-harming pesticide
- 09/29/2017 Remarks by Marc Grossman for the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez Foundation at observance honoring Nagi Daifallah, September 28, 2017, U.C. Berkeley
- 09/28/2017 ThinkProgress: Trump rushes to gut regulations at the expense of worker safety
- 09/28/2017 Imperial Valley News (CA): CDFA will hear perspectives from stakeholders on DACA impacts (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals)(
- 09/26/2017 4 p.m. Tues. in Bakersfield: Immigrant youth & advocates urge Rep. Valadao to allow vote on Dream Act by backing discharge petition
- 09/25/2017 Salon: Trump’s EPA: Who cares about environmental racism?
- 09/25/2017 Bangor Daily News (ME): Deaths of farmworkers in cow manure ponds put oversight of dairy farms into question
- 09/24/2017 STLToday (MO): Deaths of farmworkers in cow manure ponds put oversight of dairy farms into question
- 09/24/2017 Fresno Bee (CA): The Board Room for Sept. 25
- 09/24/2017 Washington Post: Deaths of farmworkers in cow manure ponds put oversight of dairy farms into question
- 09/24/2017 Fresno Bee (CA): Si Se Puede Scholarship
- 09/23/2017 San Antonio Express News (TX): San Antonio’s future: 60 days over 100 degrees
- 09/23/2017 Miami Herald: Hurricane Irma leaves farmworkers without jobs, without food and no money to pay rent
- 09/21/2017 UFW remembers Rene Lopez who sacrificed his life for La Causa (1962-1983)
- 09/20/2017 Mother Jones: How Heat Kills Farmworkers, and what’s being done about it
- 09/20/2017 Santa Cruz Sentinel (CA): After success of program delivering fresh veggies to farm workers’ families, nonprofits triple in size
- 09/19/2017 Ecowatch: Trump’s Pick for Top EPA Post Under Scrutiny for Deep Ties to Chemical Industry
- 09/19/2017 Tuesday at 6 p.m. in Madera: UFW members’ children awarded $1,000 ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 09/17/2017 Sunday at 11 a.m. in Livingston: UFW members’ sons and daughters will be awarded $1,000 ¡Si Se Puede!® scholarships
- 09/16/2017 Bay Area Indymedia (CA): Time to hit ‘pause button’ on brain-harming pesticide, farmworker communities say