“We don’t need perfect political systems; we need perfect participation.” - Cesar Chavez
White Papers
- 04/12/2017 WHAT YOU SHOULD KNOW Chlorpyrifos: The toxic pesticide now harming our children and environment
- 07/29/2013 Exposed and Ignored by Farmworker Justice
- 04/05/2011 INVENTORY of FARMWORKER ISSUES and PROTECTIONS in the UNITED STATES – MARCH 2011, by BON APPÉTIT MANAGEMENT COMPANY FOUNDATION UNITED FARM WORKERS
- 08/09/2010 Congressional Budget Office: The Role of Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Market: An Update
- 06/20/2008 Centers for Disease Control & Prevention: Heat-Related Deaths Among Crop Workers — United States, 1992–2006
- 05/07/2008 Union of Concerned Scientists: Interference at the EPA – Science and Politics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
- 04/08/2008 US House of Representatives Commitee of Oversight & Government Reform, March 2008: FDA & Fresh Spinach Safety
- 10/12/2007 September 24th letter to EPA director Stephen Johnson by 54 prominent scientists warning that the cancer causing chemical is too dangerous to be used as a pesticide and urging EPA to delay registration and conduct an independent review of the agency’s assessment of the pesticide.
- 10/12/2007 PANNA’s Methyl Iodide Page
- 10/11/2007 PANNA’s Fumigant Pesticides Page
- 02/28/2007 February, 2007: Environmental Health Perspectives:Case Report – Three Farmworkers Who Gave Birth to Infants with Birth Defects Closely Grouped in Time and Place – Florida and North Carolina 2004-2005
- 12/26/2006 Dec. 2006: Attorney General to Farm Worker Movement: ‘all the allegations deemed by our office to require investigation were…found to be without merit’
- 12/20/2006 Poisons on the Wind: Pesticide Drift Catching in the Yakima Valley, Washington
- 02/25/2006 Department of Labor: The National Agricultural Workers Survey
- 02/23/2006 Puzzled by the LA Times: More information regarding the UFW’s response to the LA Times
- 02/23/2006 Trouble on the Farm: Growing up with Pesticides in Agricultural Communities,National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), October 1998
- 02/23/2006 CA Endowment White Papers on Agricultural Workers Health
- 02/23/2006 Endocrine Disruption: An Overview and Resourse List, NRDC, September 1998
- 02/23/2006 California’s San Joaquin Valley: A Region in Transition, 2005
- 02/23/2006 Methyl Bromide Page, Pesticide Action Network (PAN)
- 02/23/2006 Chemical Trespass: Pesticides in Our Bodies and Corporate Accountability, 2004
- 02/23/2006 What you don’t know could hurt you: Pesticides in California’s air Environmental Working Group (EWG), January 1999
- 02/23/2006 Fields of Poison 2002: California Farmworkers and Pesticides, by California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and Pesticide Action Network, 2002. 80 pages, English and Spanish combined in one volume. – Report – Executive summary (English)
- 02/23/2006 Overexposed: Organophosphate Insecticides in Children’s Food, Environmental Working Group (EWG), January 1998
- 02/23/2006 Fields of Poison 2002: California Farmworkers and Pesticides, by California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO and Pesticide Action Network, 2002. 80 pages, English and Spanish combined in one volume. – Report (English)