https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/mar/29/europe-vegetable-garden-greenhouses-andalusia-spain

">30,000 hectares (74,131 acres) of #land are covered in #plastic - where 3.5m tons of #vegetables are produced every year – enough to feed half a billion #people and generate a turnover of more than 3bn euros - #workforce consists of more than 70,000 foreign #workers, mostly from Morocco and sub-Saharan #Africa ."

Something that could be replicated in #SouthAsia?

#food #agriculture #climate #adaptation #water

“The weight of that calculation is the same weight for every single survivor in the farm worker industry. They’re not thinking about the movement, but they’re thinking about: ‘Will my family be able to work next year?’ ‘Will I be abandoned in the field?’ ‘Will I be killed?’” https://www.texasobserver.org/dolores-huerta-fear-farmworkers-advocates/

#farming #agriculture #politics #USpol #labor #workers #HumanRights

(CW: Descriptions of workplace sexual assault)

@TheNovemberMan Congressional Republicans are a disgrace. Senate GOP finally propose the same bill they rejected 11 times from Democrats - and the GOP House won’t even vote on it. Instead, they leave for a damn vacation while the federal employees they betrayed are standing in bread lines and moving into their cars.

I hope the executive order paying the TSA materializes so our national security employees are not left homeless. But what about the Coast Guard? What about FEMA? Those critical workers will continue to suffer.

The GOP owns this pain. All because MAGA wants 0 regulations or legal checks on ICE Gestapo who are literally terrorizing the public and killing Americans in the street. MAGA is a sickness.

#GOP #MAGA #TSA #FEMA #DHS #shutdown #NoRepublicansEverAgain #fascism #tyranny #gestapo #politics #workers #ICE

Despite official denial, sanitation workers and activists say caste-based sewer deaths in Modi’s Swachha Bharat continue unabated —“every 2–3 days, one Indian dies in a gutter.”

#workerrights #workers #sanitationWorkers #manualScavenging #casteism

https://www.groundxero.in/2026/03/26/41-deaths-in-90-days-manual-scavengers-demand-accountability-say-prime-minister-must-apologise/

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