Un festejo especial para las familias campesinas
| TelemundoDecenas de familias campesinas locales despidieron el 2022 con un gran festejo para ellas, especialmente gracias a la organización Líderes Campesinas.
A coalition is urging the EPA to immediately suspend the use of a widely used weedkiller: ‘No legal legs to stand on’
| Yahoo! NewsA coalition of six organizations has urged the Environmental Protection Agency to halt the use of the common weedkiller glyphosate.
Kern County’s 2020 free speech violations trigger new safeguards. Will they work?
| CalMattersThree years ago, a string of Facebook posts spelled doom for a Kern County plan to curb COVID-19’s path through vulnerable communities.
The virus had already wreaked havoc in the conservative, agricultural county by October 2020, when the Kern County Public Health Department struck what would be a nearly $1.5 million deal with local organizations and an associated small business to get crucial information about COVID-19 to hard-hit ZIP codes and vulnerable groups.
Spreading cheer beyond the fields
| Wasco TribuneLíderes Campesinas North Kern Committee held a Mexican-themed Christmas event, “Posada,” to honor local farmworker families. There were toys for the children, food boxes, gift cards, raffle items, clothing, desserts, tacos, music and drinks to enjoy.
Sacramento County residents supporting farm workers during the holiday season
| Fox 40The Sacramento region is known as America’s “Farm-to-Fork” capital.
But advocates for farm workers say the hands that make this industry run are often left in the shadows.
Farmworkers Breakfast event in Brawley
| KYMABRAWLEY, Calif. (KYMA, KECY) – The City of Brawley had its second annual Farmworker Breakfast event Friday morning.
About 200 people attended the breakfast that took place at the Providence in Brawley at 3 a.m.