Politics | Farmworkers Rights

2010-03-18: Headlines

Meattradenewsdaily: South Africa - Farmworker living conditions 2010-03-18
Agricultural Unions, the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, North West provincial departments of Labour and the Human Rights Commission ...
Los Angeles Times: Groups mobilize to pressure lawmakers to act on immigration reform 2010-03-18
... said they could include bills to grant legal status to undocumented college students and farm workers; allow partners of gay, lesbian and transgender ...
San Antonio Express: En breve: Tejano music fans invited to fair 2010-03-18
A Mass for farm workers takes place at 8 am, Sunday, March 21, at San Fernando Cathedral, 115 W. Main Ave. The 14th annual march is set to begin at 1 pm ...
The Desert Sun: Farm visitors learn the root of their food 2010-03-18
The California Women for Agriculture's Coachella Valley chapter taught 48 people about where their food comes from. Led by chapter volunteers Ellen Way ...
Yakima Herald-Republic: Special series on Valley wells earns another journalism award 2010-03-18
The three-part series revealed that as many as 30000 Lower Valley residents, most of them Latino farm workers, rely on drinking water from well ...
Weekend Post: Local authority won't let legal owners use their land 2010-03-18
LEGALLY binding documents giving three faithful farm workers lifetime rights to a 10ha patch of land outside Port Alfred are still being ignored by the new ...
Daily Caller: Does March Madness really hurt the economy? 2010-03-18
His $1.8 billion is based on 45 percent of non-farm workers wasting 20 minutes each day during the first week of the tournament.
Boise State University The Arbiter Online: Celebrate Cesar Chavez with the Cultural Center 2010-03-18
The former Mexican American farm worker and co-founder of the United Farm Workers used his resources to aid the hundreds of repressed migrant farm worker ...

2010-03-17: Headlines

The Nation.: Californians March into the Heartland 2010-03-17
In the '60s the United Farm Workers was born in another town on the marchers' way--Delano. The UFW's most implacable enemies were always here--the ...
Latina Lista: Interactive site makes Cesar Chavez come alive for a new generation 2010-03-17
... that has come to personify Cesar Chavez, it is the one that he helped found, lead and which still carries his legacy -- United Farm Workers (UFW).
In These Times: Timeout for Labor in Florida 2010-03-17
And they are relying more on groups like Working America, Jobs with Justice, American Rights at Work and Interfaith Worker Justice to expand the fight ...
The New Nation: Bangladesh urges Lithuania to simplify visa for students 2010-03-17
He also requested the President that since there were huge Agricultural lands remained uncultivated, Lithuania can employ Bangladeshi farm-workers ...
The Zimbabwean: Foreign firms should put workers first 2010-03-17
If the real goal of the land reform programme was to empower the indigenous Zimbabweans, it should have considered the farm workers, some of whom had worked ...
NBC Bay Area: Healthy But Absent Students Have Good Excuse 2010-03-17
It's one of 23 such facilities the state runs across California designed to give migrant farm workers a place to stay while they ...
Santiago Times: How China Views The Human Rights Record Of The United States 2010-03-17
Child farmworkers are prevalent. An organization devoted to protecting children's rights disclosed that as many as 400000 children are estimated to work ...
Ventura County Star: Oxnard activist joins fight for female farmworkers 2010-03-17
She's Daniela Ramirez, an activist who lived in Mexico for five years campaigning for human rights for the indigenous people known as the Tarahumaras.
KIONrightnow.com: Monterey County School Will Be Honoring Cesar Chavez 2010-03-17
The human rights leader fought for equality,including for farm workers in Salinas. That's why the Monterey County Unified School District will honor him ...
New Era: Commercial farmers meet Damara - by John Ekongo 2010-03-17
WINDHOEK – The United States Department of State released its country report on human rights practices for 2009, which amplifies the challen.
Business Mirror: Assistance readied for El NiÃ±o-affected sectors 2010-03-17
It was also learned during the meeting, presided by Nacionales and Office of the Civil Defense Regional Director Rosario Cabrera, that the National Food ...
Los Altos Town Crier: Hidden Villa presents celebration March 28 honoring Cesar Chavez 2010-03-17
The hostel served as a retreat for Chavez, a farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist who drafted the framework for one of the first maj ...
Manila Standard Today: Closure a la Noynoy 2010-03-17
“The [Luisita] farm workers believe widespread condemnation of the involvement of the military in the massacre pressured the Arroyo government into taking ...
The Durango Herald: Dairy farmer talks about probe 2010-03-17
The crackdown has shaken up dairy farmers, some of whom struggle to fill milking jobs and often rely on foreign farmworkers, who may have entered ...
Staugnews: HoH Fest 2010 More Fun, More Organized Than Last Year 2010-03-17
So, I guess we can view last year's festival as a kind of “trial run” that was really meant to raise awareness for migrant farm workers, the Harvest of Hope ...
Mountain Xpress: Farming, Food & Faith: Mars Hill College program, March 25 2010-03-17
At 9:30 am and a noon, Dr. Thompson will address Mars Hill students about his work, which concentrates on documenting farm workers through photography ...
Westside Gazette: Black firms sue to stop Census award 2010-03-17
Ron Sachs Communications was the top-ranking company for American Indians, Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders and migrant farm workers.
Santa Monica Daily Press: Going Postal 2010-03-17
So who financially benefits to put farm workers into food lines, which "green" industry will displace agriculture and what's the depth of racism within ...
The Spartan Daily: Students engage in Cesar Chavez re-enactment march 2010-03-17
"He motivated people to strike and get rights for farm workers." Gamma Zeta Alpha president Gustavo Rocha said the fraternity planned the march on March 16 ...
News24: RVF case confirmed in Potch 2010-03-17
Most of the human infections were of farmers, veterinarians and farm workers, and followed direct contact with infected livestock.
Chaffee County Times: BV is 1st 'Fair Trade' town in state 2010-03-17
Fair Trade honors farmers and farm workers and "empowers them to lift themselves out of poverty by investing in their farms and communities, protecting ...
Chatham Daily News: Soar loonie concerns area farmers 2010-03-17
Thompson said a major concern is the ever-increasing wages for farm workers. He said fruit farming is highly labour intensive and rising labour costs are ...
GlobalComment.com: Rethinking Work: farming as labor 2010-03-17
Sadly, the obsession with eating local doesn't seem to be bringing any added attention to exploited farmworkers or hungry people the world over who can't ...
Grand Junction Sentinel: E-mail letters, March 17, 2010 2010-03-17
... reform when we saw unfair treatment and ill-advised policy being applied to American immigrant workers, including hundreds of thousands of farm workers.
Valley Courier Online: Rakhra workers picket farm 2010-03-17
ALAMOSA — Protesting recent firings and threatened firings, Rakhra Mushroom Farm workers took to the picket lines Tuesday morning.
Maryville Daily Times: The annual Cesar Chavez Celebration is planned on the Maryville College campu ... 2010-03-17
He also founded and led the United Farm Workers Union. The annual Cesar Chavez Celebration was started by the MC Spanish Club and the Center for Strong ...
Chem.Info: Conn. Considers Waiving Student Loans for Green Jobs 2010-03-17
In Pennsylvania, an agriculture loan forgiveness program provided an average of $620 in loan forgiveness to 111 aspiring farm workers in 2009 ...
Wisconsin Ag Connection: Key GOP Senator Now In Favor of Farm Labor Legislation 2010-03-17
... of the H-2A seasonal worker program, as well as establish an 'earned adjustment' program for undocumented farm workers and agricultural guest workers.
San Diego Union Tribune: SD's other 'Q' a major player in organic food industry 2010-03-17
Kathleen Downey (right) worked at the Quality Assurance International booth at Natural Products Expo West ...
Central Chronicle: New political stirrings in Pakistan 2010-03-17
'Agricultural land should be distributed among landless peasants, farmers and farm workers', Yousuf Masti Khan says. He is also advocating that water should ...
Orlando Sentinel: 'Alternative spring break' gives time off a sense of purpose 2010-03-17
... nearly two dozen projects — including protecting marine life, educating communities about HIV and AIDS and laboring alongside impoverished farm workers.
WTN News: Adding it up: The politics of job creation mathematics in Wisconsin 2010-03-17
Wisconsin has a little more than 2.6 million non-farm workers today, so growing that total by 250000 represents an increase of about 10 percent over four ...
Keremeos Review: Ideas, support continue for worker's campground in Keremeos 2010-03-17
The third meeting of the Farm Workers Campground Committee met at the village office on Feb. 24, 2010 to continue the dialogue on the location ...
The Salinas Californian: Editorial: Census a big deal for Salinas 2010-03-17
The US Department of Labor estimates indigenous migrants make up about 17 percent of the country's farmworkers, and comprises up to 30 percent ...

2010-03-16: Headlines

Contra Costa Times: Contra Costa Times March 16 Letters from our readers 2010-03-16
In this recession, the plea may be to pass the bond indebtedness based on future jobs for farm workers and the building trades to construct a tunnel ...
World War 4 Report: Honduras: security forces evict thousands of squatters 2010-03-16
(AFP, March 12 via Vos el Soberano website, Honduras; La Prensa, March 13; La Tribuna, Tegucigalpa, March 12) Armed masked men seized two farm worker ...
AllAfrica.com: South Africa: Farmers Warned as River Valley Fever Claims Two Lives 2010-03-16
The institute said two farm workers had died in the Free State. A total of 22 infections were confirmed in the Free State and Northern Cape.
The Guardian: How seasonal and local can we eat? 2010-03-16
And speakling as someone who's had the dubious pleasure of picking leeks for hours on end in horizontal rain, I can tell you that these farm worker ...
Latin American Herald Tribune: Cuba Closes More Than 100 State-Run Agricultural Firms 2010-03-16
Raul Castro, has announced agricultural reforms aimed at increasing food production to substitute imports, a policy that he considers one of national ...
Meattradenewsdaily: South Africa - Minister of Police on farm attacks 2010-03-16
In particular, farmers, farm workers and residents within rural communities are considered soft targets of such criminals. Between 1997 and 2007 there ...
Sun-Sentinel: Michael Pickett performs at the Downtowner on Thursday night 2010-03-16
Whether he's singing a Guthrie tune about migrant farm workers or his own song about almost falling in love ("The Closest I've Ever Come")
San Francisco Chronicle: Let the Eagle Fly 2010-03-16
It traces Chavez's life from his childhood, as the son of migrant farm workers in the Great Depression, through his founding of the farm workers union ...
Reuters: Parched California to get more water 2010-03-16
Dramatic cutbacks in water deliveries by the Bureau of Reclamation and Water Resources Department during the drought had idled thousands of farm workers ...
Central Valley Business Times: • UPDATED with quotes, additional information 2010-03-16
“Every additional drop of water we secure is a step forward in our ongoing fight to bring more water to our farmers, farm workers, and farm communities.
WMU News: Chavez day event to honor three local residents 2010-03-16
Lopez, who began working in farm fields at age 12 alongside her parents and siblings, has become an advocate for migrant farmworker children's rights.
Business Report: No land grab intended says rural development official 2010-03-16
DA MP Annette Steyn yesterday(Mon) rejected suggestions by the department that the option was aimed at ensuring land tenure for farm workers and demanded ...
Dispatch Online: Local authority ignores lifetime right to land 2010-03-16
LEGALLY-binding documents giving three faithful farm workers lifetime rights to a 10-hectare patch of land outside Port Alfred are still being ignored ...
MLive.com: Senator Lugar Co-Sponsors Bill To Relieve Labor Crisis In Agriculture 2010-03-16
The Ag JOBS bill has been negotiated with growers and farm workers over more than a decade, Senator Feinstein added. It is good policy.
North Country Public Radio: Aubertine says farmworker bill could pass, with changes 2010-03-16
The New York State Senate is considering a controversial measure that would give more legal rights to New York farm workers. The bill would allow farm ...
San Jose Mercury News: Theater review: Tuning in to 'Sunsets and Margaritas' 2010-03-16
Politics are further involved as somewhere offstage immigrants are marching for their rights. And, key to the story, Gregario was raised to be "a macho," ...
Leagle.com: DERMER v. MIAMI-DADE COUNTY 2010-03-16
United Farm Workers Nat'l Union, 442 US 289, 297 (1979); see Bowen v. First Family Fin. Servs., Inc., 233 F.3d 1331, 1339-40 (11th Cir. 2000).
9NEWS.com: Census workers go bilingual in hopes of counting everyone 2010-03-16
Valley-Wide Health Systems Outreach specialist Cindy Masias says many of the farm workers in Rocky Ford are documented. But, even they are leery of giving ...
California Farm Bureau: CFBF leaders seek water solutions in Washington 2010-03-16
A failure to increase the valley's water supply will limit our region's ability to put food on our nation's dinner tables and hire workers.
Zimbabwe Telegraph: Foreign firms should not be pressured to give away shares; Workers should ... 2010-03-16
If the real goal of the land reform programme was to empower the indigenous Zimbabweans, it should have considered the farm workers, some of whom had worked ...
Public Radio International PRI: Farmers demand immigration reform 2010-03-16
A newspaper cartoon above lobbyist Craig Regelbrugge's desk shows farm workers harvesting lettuce. Two guys wearing American flags on their shirts shout ...
SDNN: Miller: March for California pushes through Wasco 2010-03-16
In Delano we are met by the United Farm Workers in Cesar Chavez Park where Dolores Huerta tells a rally of about a hundred folks that the top 1 percent ...
Calgary Herald: Farm safety funds not enough, union says 2010-03-16
Eric Musekamp of the Farmworkers Union of Alberta made the comments in reaction to an announcement Monday by Alberta's agriculture minister that $715000 ...
Financial Times: America needs to invest in jobs - and fast 2010-03-16
In terms of employment growth, it saw a decline of 0.8 per cent in the number of non-farm workers, compared with an average increase of 27 per cent in each ...
The Namibian: It's time to give Namibia's domestic workers their due 2010-03-16
First, in 2003, the Government set and gazetted a minimum wage for farmworkers. This development came on the heels of the 1996 LAC-SSD report and ...

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