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.”
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Yeah , the fucking idiot realized that his policies are affecting everyone;
“ President Donald Trump suggested at a Cabinet meeting Thursday that undocumented people working on farms and in hotels would be allowed to leave the country and return as legal workers if their employers vouched for them.” https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna200722
If you, or someone you know, is a struggling farmer or farm worker, know that new therapies are being invented and discovered. Please ask for help - you are needed and appreciated.
"At the core of agrarian behavioral health is understanding why farmers farm and why they despair when they cannot. Studies starting in the early 1980s found that while most people ranked personal events, such as divorce or the death of a family member, as leading causes of stress, for farmers, it was the loss of their farm. Rosmann’s own surveys found that farmers considered the loss of the ability to farm, or even the threat of such a loss, equal to the loss of a child.
Rosmann believes this connection goes beyond the fact that the land is how farmers make their living. In 2010, he came up with a theoretical explanation that he calls the agrarian imperative: humans are genetically inclined to protect and nurture a piece of land that produces food, wood or needed products for life."
Thinking about what to put on a sign for this Saturday's mass mobilization?
Consider:
FREE LELO!
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No Human Is Illegal!
Happy César Chávez Day
Today on #CesarChavezDay, we honor a giant of the labor movement—César Chávez didn’t just fight for farmworkers, he fought for all workers to have dignity, power, and a voice on the job.
The legacy lives on. The fight continues.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/31/nx-s1-5338828/cesar-chavez-day-farmworkers
Today in Labor History March 31, 1927: Birth of Cesar Chavez. In 1965, Chavez led farm workers in California on their first grape boycott. The nationwide protest lasted five years and ended with the first union contract for U.S. farm workers outside of Hawaii. In 1966, Chavez’s organization officially became the United Farm Workers. Chavez was inspired by the nonviolent civil disobedience of Gandhi. In addition to strikes, boycotts and pickets, he was famous for going on hunger strikes. Later he became infatuated with the religious cult, Synanon. He used Synanon’s “game” to punish union members and enforce conformity. Chavez also supported the brutal Filipino dictator Ferdinand Marcos. This alienated Filipino members of the union, as well as many of the religious organizations that had supported the UFW.
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Today in Labor History March 17, 1966: 100 striking Mexican American and Filipino farmworkers marched from Delano, California to Sacramento to pressure the growers and the state government to answer their demands for better working conditions and higher wages, which were, at the time, below the federal minimum wage. By the time the marchers arrived, on Easter Sunday, April 11, the crowd had grown to 10,000 protesters and their supporters. A few months later, the two unions that represented them, the National Farm Workers Association, led by César Chávez, and the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, joined to form the United Farm Workers. The strike was launched on September 8, 1965, by Filipino grape pickers. Mexicans were initially hired as scabs. So, Filipino strike leader Larry Itliong approached Cesar Chavez to get the support of the National Farm Workers Association, and on September 16, 1965, the Mexican farm workers joined the strike. During the strike, the growers and their vigilantes would physically assault the workers and drive their cars and trucks into the picket lines. They also sprayed strikers with pesticides. The strikers persevered nonviolently. They went to the Oakland docks and convinced the longshore workers to support them by refusing to load grapes. This resulted in the spoilage of 1,000 ten-ton cases of grapes. The success of this tactic led to the decision to launch a national grape boycott, which would ultimately help them win the struggle against the growers.
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