Marshall Mayer“Dia de la Madre honors the nurturing of all humanity.”
This mother and her son look over the valley in rural Oregon where they make their home. Contrary to our recent history, it’s unclear if they have a future anywhere in America.
Vickie HinkleyOn topic of #FOODInsecure in America. #FarmWorkers
#WeFEEDYou #EssentialWorkers
So wrong that these families can be going hungry. Any Family.
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MikeThe BC Society for Policy Solutions (BCSPS) has released a report on the working conditions faced by South Asian women farmworkers in British Columbia.
#farmworkers #exploitation #migrantworkers #BritishColumbia #bcpolicy #agriculture
Growing Justice: Health, safety and dignity for South Asian farmworker women in British Columbia
For decades, South Asian immigrant farmworker women have faced exploitative practices like wage theft, lack of access to clean washrooms and excessive and unpredictable hours. This report seeks to address these issues via policy reform.
Andrew"Factory farming is the biggest source of human caused animal cruelty in history. At any one time, there are over 112 billion farmed animals. The vast majority, 99% in the US for example, live in terrible conditions of suffering on factory farms. Despite this, just 3% of all donations given to help animals go to farmed animals."
"Support charities helping millions of farmed animals each year."
#AnimalCruelty #FactoryFarming #Sustainability #ClimateChange #FarmWorkers #Environment
MikeDunnAuthorToday in Labor History April 23, 1910: IWW farmhands went on strike in Yamhill, Oregon, when some were fired for teaching and talking about Industrial Unionism. The workers were demanding a 30-cents per hour raise and a decent bunk house. Farmers tried unsuccessfully to hire strike breakers and started slandering the strikers' wives. Fellow IWW members from Portland helped bring supplies and sabotaged some of the farmers' trees.
#workingclass #LaborHistory #IWW #union #strike #oregon #Portland #wages #farmworkers #sabotage
Homepage - The Stranger [Unofficial]Which Democrats Killed the Bill for Farmworkers Rights?
Today in Labor History April 14, 1930: Over 100 Mexican and Filipino farm workers were arrested for union activities in Imperial Valley, CA. 8 were convicted of “criminal syndicalism.”
#workingclass #LaborHistory #imperialvalley #mexican #filipino #union #farmworkers #immigrant #strike #syndicalism #prison #repression #antilabor
AngieAnother fucking idiot.
Peter RileyInterview https://labornotes.org/2026/04/lack-democracy-united-farm-workers-gave-chavez-immunity
Trampling Out the Vintage:
Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers (2011)
( Frank Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s. )
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Cleofas Guzman & Mario Bustamante
Lack of Democracy in United Farm Workers Gave Chavez Immunity
In 2011 Frank Bardacke published an 800-page history of the Farm Workers union: Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers. It opened many eyes to the reasons the UFW became a shadow of its former self. Bardacke starts the book with an epigraph, a quote from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar: “O what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down...” Bardacke was a farmworker in the fields of the Salinas Valley for six seasons in the 1970s.
Dolores Huerta and Farmworkers Overshadowed by Cesar Chavez Finally Get Their Due
As someone who was personally involved with the United Farm Workers and met with Cesar Chavez, the heartbreaking and disgusting stories about the union's co-founder are revolting and deeply troubling. The abuse and rape allegations against the now departed Chavez deserve full treatment and exposure.