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- 02/26/2018 Fresno Bee (CA): ICE activity dims celebrations of Supreme Court ruling in favor of DACA
- 02/26/2018 Post-Bulletin (MN): ‘In the Fields of the North’ reveals the reality of migrant farm workers
- 02/26/2018 NBC News: In blow to Trump, Supreme Court won’t hear appeal of DACA ruling
- 02/26/2018 The Packer: California farm labor contractor to pay big penalty
- 02/24/2018 KTLA (CA): Villaraigosa Endorsed by United Farm Workers for California Governor
- 02/24/2018 United Farm Workers endorses Antonio Villaraigosa for governor
- 02/23/2018 Sacramento Business Journal: Unions may be eyeing Sacramento’s cannabis industry
- 02/22/2018 UFW Applauds Sen. Udall, Booker, Harris, Blumenthal Offer Compromise to Pesticide Registration
- 02/21/2018 Senators float ‘compromise’ on PRIA reauthorization
- 02/21/2018 News From Senator Tom Udall: Udall, Booker, Harris, Blumenthal Offer Compromise to Pesticide Registration Reauthorization Stalemate
- 02/16/2018 Desert Sun: Pensions for farmworkers are extremely rare. This 83-year-old in Coachella finally collected his check.
- 02/16/2018 Remarks by Arturo S. Rodriguez, President, United Farm Workers of America, Union pension check presentation to Frank Valenzuela, February 16, 2018—Coachella, California
- 02/16/2018 Retired farm worker getting $176,723 UFW pension check; union pension plan using event to find others who qualify
- 02/15/2018 Washington Post: As immigration showdown looms in Senate, Trump administration is ‘doing everything in our power’ to stop bipartisan plan, official says
- 02/14/2018 Storify: Supporters Send Messages #ToImmigrantsWithLove While Dreamers Deliver Valentines to Congress (with images, tweets) – americasvoice
- 02/09/2018 NY Times: Oxford Comma Dispute Is Settled as Maine Drivers Get $5 Million
- 02/09/2018 Rufino Contreras asked for ‘a more just share’ of what he produced; 39 years ago the company answered him with bullets
- 02/08/2018 Alternet: Trump Administration Is Allowing Poison in Our Food Supply so Chemical Companies Like Dow Can Profit
- 02/08/2018 WCAX (VT): A worker on a large dairy farm in Vermont was killed when hit by a farm vehicle. Terribly high occupational fatalities on dairy farms.
- 02/08/2018 CNN: ‘Pillar of the community’ deported from US after 39 years to a land he barely knows
- 02/08/2018 Yakima Herald (WA): Marchers take to Sunnyside to honor Chavez
- 02/05/2018 Fresno Bee: Immigration agents’ visits are hitting close to home and scaring away workers
- 02/02/2018 America’s Voice – Frank Sharry: “We Need a Breakthrough, Not a Blame Game”
- 02/02/2018 NY Daily News: Save the Dreamers before tackling immigration reform
- 02/01/2018 Mother Jones : These Foreign Workers Say They Were Told to Pick Blueberries They Were on Their “Death Bed”