Roots of Resistance: Rising for Justice and Human Rights March in Pomona (from Pomona Pride Center to Tony Cerda Park) with support of Union, student, faith-based, day laborer, multi-racial, intersectional, and community-based groups. Continue reading
In Solidarity with workers and UFCW in historic strike at JBS Meatpacking plant in Greeley, Colorado Continue reading
Spirited and moving gathering today with day laborers at PEOC today – many who I have known and kept in contact with – going back to when we first first founded the center. Continue reading
“The organizers staged a concert outside the detention center on Saturday to serenade the detainees, while also speaking to how the administration’s policies have harmed their communities.” Continue reading
Trump TACOs on the Farm Labor situation, after cruel mass deportations of law abiding immigrant workers, the Administration is shocked that noone wants to pick crops for low wages. Continue reading
With the anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration now affecting worker shortages and crop failures in agriculture – the Labor Department is bringing back a “revamped” H-2A program which has aspects of the unjust Bracero program (which was terminated in 1964 because of its exploitation of Mexican workers) – in lowering hourly rates by between $1 and $7 – and includes cost of housing workers as part of that compensation. Continue reading