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United Farm Workers stand up to Trump -- SIGN ON!

Stop the Trump administration from lowering farm worker wages during COVID-19 From United Farm Workers: "The Trump administration is trying to cut minimum wages for the essential farm workers keeping […]

Posted: April 18 2020
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"das land hilft" platform coordinates food & farm employment in Germany

Regional resiliency abounds in Germany's new unbureaucratic and free network DAS LAND HILFT / THE COUNTRY HELPS: connecting willing workers with agricultural labor across the country. If only we had […]

Posted: April 15 2020
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ICE to undocumented Farm Workers: “You should be uncomfortable. You should look over your shoulder. You need to be worried.”

  As we know, farm workers are one of the most essential parts of the food supply chain. Without their dedication and hard work, the food they produce would never […]

Posted: June 25 2017
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WA farmworkers walk a thousand miles in footsteps of cesar chavez

On March 17th Washington-state-based independent farm worker union, the Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ), began a 28-day tour from Bellingham, WA to the US-Mexico border to galvanize a boycott of Driscoll berries […]

Posted: April 12 2016
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mexican farmworkers strike over low wages, blocking harvest

by Richard Marosi Veronica Zaragoza grew up in these coastal fields, picking berries and tomatoes and watching an industry being transformed.She saw new greenhouses erected, irrigation lines spread through the fields, […]

Posted: March 22 2016
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CIW march

It started yesterday and continues through March 17!  The CIW March for Rights, Respect and Fair Food The Fair Food movement began nearly thirteen years ago, in February of 2000, […]

Posted: March 4 2013
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farmworkers scarce, governer suggests reviving the chain gang

  http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2079542,00.html When conditions are so bad that only the most desperate will take the work, and then the state starts cracking down on illegals-- crops wither on the vine. […]

Posted: August 23 2011