Campesinas reciben sorpresa en Navidad
| UnivisionLa organización Líderes Campesinas y la Patrulla de Caminos estuvo presente en una sorpresa muy especial para campesinas, en Clarksburg, California.
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Protest in Orcutt calls out toxic chemicals in Dollar Store products
| KEYT-TVProtesters met outside a Dollar Tree in Orcutt today. A 2022 report from Campaign for Healthier Solutions found products from multiple dollar-store chains tested positive for harmful chemicals. Baking pans, kitchen utensils, headphones, bracelets, and pencil pouches for school are just some of the products outlined by Líderes Campesinas Central Coast as containing toxic chemicals such as lead and cadmium.
Optimismo hacia un mejor futuro
| TelemundoLos primeros cien días de la próxima administración Trump, darán la pauta del rumbo que seguirá su política migratoria; por ahora no vale la pena estresarse y ni crear incertidumbre.
Gabriela López, Abogada de Inmigración; Nataly Santamaría de Visión y Compromiso; y Yuriria López Promotora local, nos compartieron de sus conocimientos sobre el tema.
Protecting farmworkers from health impacts of climate change
“We have extreme heat, up to 120 degrees in the summer,” says Briana Sugey Toji. Toji is a promotora, or community health worker, who works with farmworkers for the nonprofit Líderes Campesinas. Toji and colleague Ana Solorio have lived in Brawley, an irrigated farming area south of the Salton Sea, for most of their lives, and Solorio has worked in the fields herself. But when the two visited farmworkers to help recruit for a UC-funded climate study, they were both stunned by just how hot it was out in the fields.
Council Approves PAL Coordinator Position
| Wasco TribuneOctober was proclaimed National Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the local North Kern Chapter, Líderes Campesinas Comité Norte, was recognized for the significant impact it has made in the community to help end domestic violence. The organization, made up of farmworkers, has spent the last thirty years supporting farmworker women.
Alianza Coachella Valley launches campaign to boost Salton Sea communities
| KESQ-TVA bold new initiative dedicated to improving the quality of life and economic opportunities for residents in the Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley.
Alianza Coachella Valley, along with coalition partners including Loma Linda University, Sierra Club, Lideres Campesinas and Coachella Valley Parents, announced the launch of this initiative, Campaign for Thriving Salton Sea Communities.
Farmworkers call for more extreme heat protections as Health Secretary Xavier Becerra touts existing policies
Farmworkers call for more extreme heat protections as Health Secretary Xavier Becerra touts existing policies: Secretary Xavier Becerra met with members of Líderes Campesinas, a statewide women’s farmworker advocacy organization, to hear about the risks California farmworkers face as weather conditions become more extreme.
Health Secretary Becerra Touts Extreme Heat Protections. Farmworkers Want More.
| California HealthlineCLARKSBURG — On a sunny August morning in this agricultural town, before temperatures soared to 103 degrees, U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra stood outside the small public library. “There are still not enough protections for workers that are picking the food that we eat,” Becerra told a group of local reporters and government officials, who outnumbered the farmworkers in the audience.
California cuts back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat
| Los Angeles TimesCalifornia has sharply cut its enforcement of heat-protection laws for outdoor laborers while extreme heat has intensified in recent years — endangering farmworkers, construction workers and others who toil in scorching temperatures — an investigation by the Los Angeles Times and Capital & Main has found.
Undocumented workers could have a vital benefit if this bill is approved
| CALÓ NEWSMany undocumented workers in California have some of the most challenging and dangerous jobs with little to no benefits. While federal and state taxes are deducted from their paychecks, the law prohibits undocumented workers from unemployment compensation for services performed in California.