United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 08/18/2017 Watsonville Register Pajoronian (CA): State takes aim at common pesticide – Move falls short, opponents say
- 08/18/2017 New York Times: E.P.A. Promised ‘a New Day’ for the Agriculture Industry, Documents
- 08/17/2017 UFW Remembers Juan De La Cruz
- 08/17/2017 Bay Area Indymedia (CA): Air Testing Shows Unsafe Levels of Brain-Harming Pesticide in Kern County
- 08/16/2017 Bakersfield Now (CA): Activists picket Valadao’s Bakersfield office
- 08/16/2017 KBAK (CA): Immigration activists picket Rep. Valadao’s Bakersfield office
- 08/16/2017 Rep. Valadao target of statewide car caravans, local activists converging at his Bakersfield office on 5th anniversary of DACA
- 08/15/2017 UFW remembers Nagi Daifallah
- 08/15/2017 KERO 23 ABC News (CA): Local immigration reform activists meet in Bakersfield to mark 5th anniversary of DACA
- 08/15/2017 KERO (CA): Local immigration reform activists meet in Bakersfield to mark 5th anniversary of DACA
- 08/14/2017 Yakima Herald-Republic (WA): Danger to farm workers
- 08/14/2017 UC Berkeley: Heavily used pesticide linked to breathing problems in farmworkers’ children
- 08/10/2017 Raspberry workers vote for UFW at Watsonville ranch with over 500 employees; workers look forward to their first union contract
- 08/09/2017 The American Prospect: Braceros Strike After One Worker Dies
- 08/09/2017 Capital Press: Farms fined after pesticide drift sickens farmworkers
- 08/09/2017 The American Prospect: Braceros Strike After One Worker Dies
- 08/09/2017 Free documentary filmmaking case study on the making of Cesar’s Last Fast Aug. 19 in San Jose
- 08/09/2017 Santa Cruz Sentinel News (CA): Coast Line: Central Coast raspberry workers select UFW union
- 08/08/2017 Pesticide feds failed to ban responsible for major farmworker poisoning incident
- 08/08/2017 New America Media: Coachella Rising: Aging Farmworkers, Unions, Organic Mangos & the Salton Sea
- 08/08/2017 KBAK TV (CBS) (CA): 2 ag companies get fines for pesticide drifts
- 08/08/2017 The New Food Economy: While regulators debate pesticide safety, California farmworkers keep getting sick
- 08/07/2017 Salon: Historic state fair exhibit recognizes farmworkers
- 08/03/2017 Bakersfield Now (CA): Gosford Road reopens after pesticide exposure
- 08/02/2017 Kern Farmworkers Sickened Again by Pesticide Drift