United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 06/20/2017 KFSN-TV (CA): High-heat procedures in full effect for Valley fieldworkers
- 06/16/2017 On the 5th anniversary of DACA, Trump administration revokes DAPA
- 06/16/2017 New York Times: ‘Dreamers’ to Stay in U.S. for Now, but Long-Term Fate Is Unclear
- 06/14/2017 teleSUR English: US Environmental Agency Sued Over Continued Use of Deadly Dow Pesticides
- 06/13/2017 SFGate (CA): LOCAL: IN THE PENINSULA Back into the shadows: Immigrants retreat from needed services as deportation fears loom
- 06/13/2017 America’s Voice: ICE Director On Deporting Immigrants With No Criminal Record: “We Shouldn’t Wait for Them to Become a Criminal”
- 06/13/2017 Washington Times: Thomas Homan, ICE chief, says illegal immigrants should live in fear
- 06/13/2017 Huffington Post; ICE Director To All Undocumented Immigrants: ‘You Need To Be Worried’
- 06/09/2017 Truth-Out: States Challenge Scott Pruitt’s Decision to Keep Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage in Food Supply
- 06/09/2017 AZCentral: ‘Inhumane’ Phoenix-area farm? Employees: ‘What we want is to work’ ufw news
- 06/07/2017 Los Angeles Times: EPA scientists said ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Scott Pruitt said no
- 06/07/2017 Bustle: Seven States Are Standing Up To The EPA Over A Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage
- 06/07/2017 TeenVogue.com: EPA Head Scott Pruitt Overturned a Proposed Ban on Chlorpyrifos
- 06/07/2017 Ventura County Star (CA): Pesticide trial defense witnesses: Care was taken
- 06/07/2017 CBS San Francisco Area: California Fights EPA Decision To Allow Neurotoxic Pesticide On Food
- 06/06/2017 UFW Joins Groups to Appeal EPA’s Refusal To Ban Dangerous Pesticide
- 06/06/2017 States join frontline communities to demand EPA reverse controversial approval of brain-harming pesticide
- 06/06/2017 Baltimore Sun: Maryland’s Frosh, six other attorneys general accuse EPA of ignoring science on safety of pesticide
- 06/06/2017 The Arizona Republic; Feds find ‘simply inhumane’ living conditions for workers at Arizona farm
- 06/06/2017 Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: The U.S. Department of Labor will be targeting farms to make sure employers and their immigrant workers are in compliance with the H-2A work visa. 1 Farm labor investigated as Trump targets foreign worker visa programs
- 06/06/2017 LA Times: EPA scientists said ban the pesticide chlorpyrifos. Scott Pruitt said no
- 06/06/2017 Huffington Post: EPA Inspector General Probing Whether Agency Staffer Colluded With Monsanto
- 06/06/2017 East Valley Times (CA): Attorney General Xavier Becerra calls on EPA Administrator to issue safety findings on pesticide
- 06/06/2017 Bloomberg BNA: States to Pruitt: Don’t Reverse Course on Dow Insect-Killer
- 06/06/2017 Union of Concerned Scientists: 7 States Give Pruitt an “F” in Science, Challenge EPA Over Pesticide That Harms Children