Supporting Latino-led nonprofits in California
| Kaiser PermanenteAfter a gunman killed 7 farmworkers in Half Moon Bay in January, media attention focused on the deplorable living and working conditions of farm workers. While the story made headlines, it was not news to Líderes Campesinas, a California nonprofit network that empowers female farmworker leaders to improve conditions in the fields and in their communities.
Scammers attempting to defraud farmworkers out of COVID-19 relief payments
| KESQ-TVAuthorities and advocates across California are warning against scammers that are attempting to defraud farm workers out of their COVID-19 direct relief payments.
Local organizations like TODEC and other farmworker organizations are providing $600 payments as a part of the federal government’s attempts to provide relief to those affected by the pandemic through the Farm and Food Workers Relief Grant program.
Advocates ask California to ban cancer-causing pesticide Talon
| ABC 23 | BakersfieldTelone, also called 13D, has been used in California for decades, but advocates say the pesticide may be responsible for illnesses, including cancers, among farmworkers.
In 1996, the EPA was ordered to test pesticides for impacts on people’s hormones. They still don’t.
| Environmental Health NewsIn 1996, Congress ordered the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to test all pesticides used on food for endocrine disruption by 1999. The EPA still doesn’t do this today.
Nor does it appear close to doing so, argue the plaintiffs in a lawsuit filed against the agency in December for its ongoing failure to implement the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program.
Campesinos podrían recibir $300 a través del beneficio de desempleo en California
| TelemundoUna propuesta de ley en California quiere lograr el primer programa que pague beneficio de desempleo sin excluir a ningún trabajador, es decir, que también otorgue ayuda financiera a los empleados indocumentados.
California’s new pesticide notifications might not shield farmworkers
| AL.comFlor Alvarado is in the kitchen of her mobile home, listening intently to a virtual meeting and taking notes while Alexa and Alison, her twin seven-year-old daughters, play quietly in the living room. Alvarado lives in Bakersfield, at the bottom of California’s sweltering San Joaquin Valley, where it’s not uncommon for temperatures to reach triple digits. The air conditioner is humming trying to keep the home cool as the voice of a community activist blares from Alvarado’s phone screen. She glances at her girls; it is almost time for dinner.