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- 08/04/2020 Drovers Magazine: Senators Reintroduce Bipartisan Food Supply Protection Act
- 08/04/2020 The Hill: Democrats introduce bill to ban chlorpyrifos, other pesticides to protect farmworkers
- 08/04/2020 NEWS FROM THE U.S. CONGRESS Udall, Neguse Introduce Landmark Pesticide Reform to Protect Children, Farmworkers and Consumers from Toxic Pesticides:
- 08/02/2020 NPR: Washington Farmworkers Ask State Supreme Court For Overtime Pay
- 07/31/2020 ABC 7 News: Stanford student raises awareness for farm worker wages after getting $7 for picking 2 gallons of blueberries
- 07/29/2020 PRI The World: Farmworkers are getting coronavirus. They face retaliation for demanding safe conditions.
- 07/28/2020 Courthouse News Service: Farmworkers Lobby Ninth Circuit to Force Ban on Pesticide That’s Toxic to Children
- 07/28/2020 KGET: UFW files charges against Primex Farms for allegedly firing employees who said company wasn’t protecting them from COVID-19
- 07/27/2020 NBC Bay Area: Union Claims Unsafe Coronavirus Conditions for Farm Workers
- 07/26/2020 CNBC: Advocates push for more farmworker protections as coronavirus cases surge
- 07/25/2020 Los Angeles Times: This county knew coronavirus could ravage its farmworkers. Why didn’t officials stop it?
- 07/23/2020 Tucson.com: As pandemic rages, farmworkers say employers prioritize production over lives
- 07/23/2020 CAL Matters: Workers in the San Joaquin Valley ask the attorney general for support
- 07/23/2020 San Antonio Express-News: Ayala: First woman, immigrant to lead UFW sees no benefit in calling farmworkers ‘essential’
- 07/22/2020 Grist Magazine: Why are farmworkers joining the strike for Black lives? Shared roots.
- 07/22/2020 Food Tank: New on the Podcast: Teresa Romero discusses justice for farm workers
- 07/21/2020 PBS Frontline: She Has Cancer and Is High-Risk for COVID Complications. But Like Many Essential Farmworkers, She Can’t Stay Home
- 07/20/2020 CBS Los Angeles: Workers Walk Off The Job Monday In Strike For Black Lives By CBSLA Staff
- 07/20/2020 NPR: Essential Workers Hold Walkouts And Protests In National ‘Strike For Black Lives’
- 07/20/2020 The Washington Post: The historical alliance behind today’s Strike for Black Lives
- 07/20/2020 USA Today: ‘Whatever it takes’: Thousands of workers could join Strike for Black Lives, walking off jobs Monday to protest racial inequality
- 07/19/2020 The New York Times: How Buying Beans Became a Political Statement
- 07/19/2020 Up News Info: United Farm Workers president: Why we’re striking for Black lives
- 07/18/2020 Baltimore Sun: ‘COVID’s Hidden Toll’ and the threat of the virus to farm workers keeping our food supply going | COMMENTARY
- 07/18/2020 Why UFW is joining the Strike for Black Lives