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News Coverage
- 08/10/2019 Santa Cruz Sentinel: UFW presents scholarships to students | Name dropping
- 08/09/2019 KUOW: Pesticide linked to brain damage in children faces multi-state lawsuit
- 08/08/2019 Public News Service: Congress Considers New Federal Rules Limiting Excessive Heat in Workplace
- 08/07/2019 Tucson Sentinel: How Arizona’s outdoor workers stay safe in the swelter
- 08/07/2019 Earthjustice (press release): OVER 80 GROUPS URGE GOV. CUOMO TO SIGN SENATE BILL S5343 AND BAN BRAIN-DAMAGING PESTICIDE CHLORPYRIFOS
- 08/07/2019 DTN The Progressive Farmer (blog): Enviros Appeal EPA Action
- 08/04/2019 Herald Palladium: An uphill battle: Migrant, seasonal and H-2A farmworkers continue to face a challenging landscape
- 08/03/2019 STL Today: Ag companies and farmers prepare for the coming of ‘killer heat’
- 07/30/2019 Reflector: Bus sculpture on the road to becoming a reality: Work of art to tell the story of migrant farm workers
- 07/30/2019 GV Wire: Lessons Learned by Picking Cantaloupes in San Joaquin Valley
- 07/30/2019 The Progressive: The Social Movement Photography of David Bacon: Part Six, Homeless and Hungry in People’s Park
- 07/29/2019 The Nation: ‘It’s Not Shameful to Work in the Fields. But It’s Hard.
- 07/25/2019 Nation of Change: Farmworkers Bill of Rights
- 07/24/2019 AOL: Congressional bill introduced in honor of man who died of heat stroke picking grapes in 105-degree weather
- 07/24/2019 Physician’s Weekly: Why We Should Ban the Brain-Damaging Pesticide Chlorpyrifos
- 07/22/2019 New York Times:Trump Administration Expands Fast-Tracked Deportations for Undocumented Immigrants
- 07/22/2019 Bakersfield Now: Farmworkers across Kern County fear deportations in the fields
- 07/21/2019 NY Daily News: A new day blooms: Gov. Cuomo signs bill finally giving farmworkers rights and recognizes those who made it happen
- 07/20/2019 KBAK: Field workers treated after chemical exposure, Public Health says
- 07/19/2019 Capitol Press: Western Innovator: Trust of farmworkers spells success
- 07/18/2019 Earth Justice: TRUMP’S EPA KEEPS BRAIN-DAMAGING PESTICIDE IN FRUITS AND VEGETABLES
- 07/17/2019 The Fence Post: UFW calls H-2A changes ‘new low’ while Farm Bureau approves
- 07/17/2019 WXXI News: Cuomo signs farmworkers’ rights bill
- 07/16/2019 The Hill: Activist: Exclusion of domestic workers from federal labor laws ‘a legacy of slavery’
- 07/16/2019 Sacramento Bee: As temperatures climb in California and nationwide, a new push aims to keep workers safe