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News and Events
- 01/10/2015 Fresno activist Alfonso Hernandez championed farm workers, students and Latino rights
- 01/08/2015 Passing of farm worker champion Joe Gunterman
- 12/24/2014 Kern Golden Empire: Governor appoints two new judges for Kern County
- 12/20/2014 L.A. Times: Produce industry promises to improve Mexican farmworker conditions
- 12/14/2014 L.A. Times: In Mexico’s fields, children toil to harvest crops that make it to American tables
- 12/12/2014 L.A. Times: Company stores trap Mexican farmworkers in a cycle of debt
- 12/10/2014 L.A. Times: Desperate workers on a Mexican mega-farm: ‘They treated us like slaves’
- 12/10/2014 UFW, farm worker at Senate hearing to back President’s immigration executive order keeping families together
- 12/09/2014 L.A. Times Editorial: U.S. firms, consumers can’t ignore abuses against Mexican farmworkers
- 12/07/2014 L.A. Times: Hardship on Mexico’s farms, a bounty for U.S. tables
- 12/04/2014 UFW opposes H.R. 5759 Congressman Ted Yoho’s (R-FL) proposal to prevent the President from protecting immigrant families
- 12/02/2014 Activists, farm workers gather at Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s Bakersfield office urging support for President Obama’s executive order
- 12/01/2014 In These Times: The One Thing Worse Than Big Dairy’s Abuse of Cows? Its Abuse of Workers
- 11/26/2014 Daily Kos: New CNN poll: Americans overwhelmingly support Obama’s action on immigration
- 11/25/2014 ‘UFW stands up for justice for Michael Brown’
- 11/24/2014 Latin Post: Thanksgiving 2014: Martin Sheen Honors Cesar Chavez, UFW & Farm Workers Who Bring Food to Our Table
- 11/24/2014 Press Democrat (CA): 125,000 may gain temporary legal status
- 11/24/2014 Latin Post: Thanksgiving 2014: Martin Sheen Honors Cesar Chavez, UFW & Farm Workers Who Bring Food to Our Table
- 11/22/2014 UFW, UFW Foundation, Radio Campesina, Cesar Chavez Foundation to present informational sessions on administrative relief
- 11/21/2014 UFW Pres. Rodriguez after landing on Air Force One: Furious opposition also met Lincoln freeing the slaves and Truman desegregating the U.S. military
- 11/21/2014 Remarks by the President on Immigration
- 11/21/2014 Sacramento Bee: Central Valley undocumented immigrants see hope in Obama action
- 11/21/2014 KSBW (CA): Salinas farm workers react to Obama’s speech, executive action (Video)
- 11/21/2014 Bloomberg News: Obama Promotes Immigration Action as Boehner Vows to Respond
- 11/21/2014 KERO (CA): UFW reacts to President Obama’s speech