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News and Events
- 03/27/1999 San Antonio Expre: Let’s honor César and his lessons
- 03/26/1999 Fresno B: Citrus aid bill awaits Davis OK
- 03/19/1999 Fresno B: Citrus freeze kindles warmhearted pupils
- 03/18/1999 Biggest food giveaway in Tulare County as 1,500 citrus worker families receive aid through UFW & USDA
- 03/15/1999 Los Angeles Tim: Pesticides May Harm Brain, Study Says – Health: Fetuses and young children in farm areas are at highest risk,research suggests, with intelligence, motor skills and personalities affected.
- 03/14/1999 Los Angeles Tim: A Left Coast Kennedy: The Son of a Political Icon Talks about the Interconnectedness of Fatherhood,Politics and Fun.
- 03/09/1999 Riverside Press Enterpri: First grower to sign grape pact dies
- 02/24/1999 San Francisco Chronicle:: Record settlement in farm workers suit: Lettuce grower will pay $1.85 million in harassment suit
- 02/19/1999 Washington Po: Pesticide levels cited as risk to children: Produce items may exceed EPA guidlines
- 02/19/1999 PR Newswi: Governor Davis announces state freeze relief efforts
- 02/16/1999 Fresno B: Visalia’s Vons delivers giant truckload of relief
- 02/12/1999 Fresno B: Vons to donate $200,000 of aid
- 02/11/1999 First of six 18-wheel Vons trucks with food and baby supplies heads from L.A. store to stricken Valley citrus belt
- 02/10/1999 Fresno B: Freeze disaster declared
- 02/09/1999 UFW: Stricken citrus workers awaiting relief from President Clinton’s disaster declaration
- 02/09/1999 Associated Pre: President declares California’s $656 million crop-killing freeze a disaster
- 02/08/1999 Associated Pre: Freeze hits workers hard, too: Jobless seek help in paying overdue bills
- 02/02/1999 State Health & Welfare Secretary Grantland Johnson, Deputy Assistant of the U.S. Department of Labor Theodore Mastroianni, other top state & U.S. officials to hear relief appeals from 400 citrus workers
- 02/02/1999 Fresno B: Freeze in human terms
- 01/27/1999 Sacramento B: Davis appoints 3 allies to ALRB–for a day: Maneuver creates friendly majority for single meeting
- 01/22/1999 Fresno B: UFW distributes hope, food
- 01/21/1999 UFW hands out 10 tons of food to rural farm worker freeze victims underserved by relief efforts
- 01/19/1999 Strawberry workers victims of violence at sit-in protest over ALRB’s refusal to prosecute; UFW’s Huerta decries 16 years of agency inaction
- 01/17/1999 Los Angeles Tim: Area growers fear power may erode under Davis
- 01/17/1999 Sacramento B: ALRB critics pin hopes on Davis: Farm worker union officials claim years of neglect by GOP governors