“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
As always, supporting Pomona Valley Pride Center fundraiser. 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
Protesting conditions in Adelanto! Continue reading
Iran War
Trump sending 2500 marines to the Middle East. Let’s keep on marching (join the No Kings March on March 28th, support marches and Economic boycotts on May 1, and get out the vote for anti-war, pro-ending authoritarianism, and pro-systemic change candidates! Stop the madness)! Continue reading
Doyers 3 Peat Continue reading
A memory today of Pitzer students as part of one of my last classes where we visited Agbayani Village – a retirement center constructed in the early 1970’s for Filipino farm workers by the UFW in Delano (with volunteers such as Luis Juarez who was a student at the time and Continue reading