Farmworkers

Thousands Of Mexicans Hold Protest Against NAFTA

August 11, 2017 Staff, www.bilaterals.org Resist! Farmworkers, Mexico, NAFTA, Protests, Trade Deal

By Staff of Bilaterals - Mexican farmers and workers have staged a mass rally in the capital to voice their opposition to the North American Free Trade Agreement, commonly known as NAFTA, with the United States and Canada. The protesters, who numbered up to 10,000 people, took to the streets in Mexico City on Monday, saying the trilateral trade deal was ruining Mexican farmers’ and workers’ livelihoods. The protesters said that they wanted the government to leave the agriculture sector out of the new NAFTA free trade agreement, accusing Mexico City of failing to support the peasant farmers. President Enrique Peña Nieto, the protesters said, has broken the promises he had made to the farmers and workers in regard to land and labor reforms The protest comes as NAFTA re-negotiations are scheduled to take place from August 16 to 20 in Washington. Reports suggest around two million Mexican farmers have lost their land under the current NAFTA conditions. US-imported products make up nearly half of all of the food consumed in Mexico. During his election campaign, US President Donald Trump vowed to either renegotiate or scrap the 1994 North American Free Trade Agreement. Trump described NAFTA as the worst trade deal the US had ever signed. He blamed the three-nation deal for the outsourcing of thousands of American jobs to Mexico and China.

Farmworkers, Supporters Take Trump Resistance To Trump Country

April 1, 2017 Staff, www.ufw.sollink.net Resist! Donald Trump, Farmworkers, Protests

By Staff of United Farm Workers - Tens of thousands of farm workers will lead the resistance to Donald Trump’s anti-immigrant policies by staging marches and events organized by the United Farm Workers and other farm worker organizations around Cesar Chavez’s March 31 birthday in 11 mostly rural communities—most of which backed Trump—across California, Texas, Washington state and Oregon. Most take place on Sunday, April 2, when farm workers have the day off. Rural and agricultural counties voted heavily for Trump during last year’s presidential election.

California First U.S. State To Promise Overtime To Farmworkers

September 16, 2016 Sharon Bernstein, www.reuters.com Create! California, Farmworkers, Jobs and Wages

By Sharon Bernstein for Reuters - SACRAMENTO, Calif., Sept 12 (Reuters) - California will become the first U.S. state to require farmers to pay overtime to field workers and fruit pickers under a bill signed on Monday by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown. The bill would phase in overtime pay for farmworkers from 2019 to 2022. In an industry where a work week during the harvest season can be as long as 60 hours, the measure requires farmers to pay overtime after eight hours per day or 40 hours per week.

No State Charges For Cops Who Killed Mexican Farmworker

September 10, 2016 Eric M. Johnson, www.Reuters.com Resist! Farmworkers, police brutality, Washington

By Eric M. Johnson for Reuters - SEATTLE, Sept 8 (Reuters) - The U.S. state of Washington has decided not to file criminal charges against the three police officers who fatally shot an undocumented Mexican farm worker in 2015 after he threw rocks at them and ran through a crowded intersection. The killing of Antonio Zambrano-Montes in the southeastern farming hub of Pasco, captured on video by witnesses and shared widely online, sparked days of protests from the city’s majority Latino community and drew criticism from theMexican government and human rights activists.

The Fight Isn’t Over For Farm Worker Overtime

July 6, 2016 David Bacon, www.capitalandmain.com Create! California, Farmworkers, Jobs and Wages, Wages, Workers Rights and Jobs

By David Bacon for Capital and Main - For the state’s first hundred-plus years, certain unspoken rules governed California politics. In a state where agriculture produced more wealth than any industry, the first rule was that growers held enormous power. Tax dollars built giant water projects that turned the Central and Imperial Valleys into some of the nation’s most productive farmland.

Cuomo Supports State Farmworkers After They Sue Him

May 16, 2016 Scott Heins, Chris Hedges, www.gothamist.com Resist! Farmworkers, New York (NY)

By Scott Heins for Gothamist - The New York Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against Governor Cuomo and the state alleging that loopholes in state labor laws deny farmworkers the right to organize, forcing them into "life-threatening, sweatshop-like conditions." In a statement issued hours after the suit, Cuomo quickly voiced his support for farmworkers and said his administration would not fight the NYCLU lawsuit. "Because of a flaw in the state labor relations act, farm workers are not afforded the right to organize without fear of retaliation—which is unacceptable," Cuomo said.

Children Near Farms Pay Steep Price For Food We Eat

May 15, 2016 Elizabeth Grossman, www.civileats.com Educate! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Pesticides

By Elizabeth Grossman for Civil Eats. The report out today from Pesticide Action Network (PAN) found that children in rural and agriculture communities across the United States are effectively exposed to a “double dose” of pesticides. They’re exposed both directly, through pesticide drift, and indirectly, through the residue that makes it home on their family members’ bodies and clothing. At the same time, PAN researchers say many children in rural communities also experience economic and social pressures that can exacerbate the adverse health effects of these chemicals. What’s worse, there is now increasingly solid evidence linking pesticide exposure to an array of childhood cancers—particularly leukemia and brain tumors—which are on the rise, as well as adverse impacts on children’s neurological development. Yet despite mounting evidence that rural children are in very real danger, they are still not being protected, says PAN.

Farmworkers Who Sparked Biggest Labor Movement In U.S. History

May 2, 2016 Alexa Strabuk, www.yesmagazine.org Resist! Cesar Chavez, Farmworkers, Labor Movement, US history

By Alexa Strabuk for Yes! Magazine - On a dusty Thursday evening, a couple hundred yards across the railroad tracks from old town Delano, California, Roger Gadiano ambles out of his one-story house to conduct his usual tour. The gray-haired Filipino man grew up in Delano and can tell you not only his own story but also the story of a small, seemingly prosaic agricultural town. He hops into his aging pickup and points out passing landmarks that any outsider might consider bleak and forgotten: a rundown grocery store, a vacant lot, the second story of an old motel.

Newsletter – Building Toward Political Revolution

April 9, 2016 Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Banking and Finance, Corporate crime, Democracy movement, Education, Farmworkers, Fight for 15, France, Living Wage, Minimum Wage, Neo-Liberalism, Nuit Debout, Opt-Out, Police violence, Prisoner rights, Privatization, Student Activism, Tax Evasion, Tax havens, Whistleblowers, Worker Rights

By Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese for Popular Resistance. Of course, we also know the Panama Papers leak is about just one tax evasion firm, and not a major one. This is a small tip of a massive tax evasion iceberg. Estimates are that $7.6 trillion in individual assets are in tax havens, about one-tenth of the global GPD. The use of tax havens has grown 25 percent from 2009 to 2015. Gabriel Zucman, author of The Hidden Wealth of Nations: The Scourge of Tax Havens and assistant professor at UC Berkeley estimates that US citizens have at least $1.2 trillion stashed offshore, costing $200 billion a year worldwide in lost tax revenue and US transnational corporations are underpaying their taxes worldwide by $130 billion. The Panama Papers will escalate demands for transformation of the economy as well as of government; continue to increase pressure on capitalism and result in the growth of the people powered movement for economic justice.

Berry Farmworkers Toil 12 Hours A Day For $6. Now Demanding Raise

April 5, 2016 Esther Yu-Hsi Lee, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Esther Yu-Hsi Lee for Think Progress - Some of the farmworkers who make it possible for U.S. consumers to have berries for breakfast are paid about $6 a day. Those farmworkers include children toiling for 12 hours a day at 85 percent the amount of money that adults get paid. Many farmworkers do not get lunch and rest breaks and are subjected to terrible housing conditions. Hoping to rectify these issues, farmworkers in the United States and in Mexico have been on a three-year-long fight to get Driscolls — the world’s largest berry distributor — to recognize their unions...

Farmworkers Fight For Food And Job Justice

March 23, 2016 Staff, www.boycottsakumaberries.com Resist! boycott, Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of Boycott Sakuma Berries - Burlington, WA- Familias Unidas por la Justicia (FUJ) an independent farmworker union comprised of 450 migrant farmworkers based in Burlington is embarking on a month long tour throughout the West Coast to organize a major offensive against the Ag giant Driscoll’s Berries. After two and half years of waging a historic fight to end wage theft, poverty wages, inhumane production standards, and retaliation for organizing at Driscoll’s supplier Sakuma Bros Berry Farm

Farmworkers In Mexico, Facing Human Rights Abuses

March 18, 2016 Griselda San Martin, www.transbordermedia.com Resist! Farmworkers, Human Rights, Mexico, Protests

By Griselda San Martin for Transborder Media - Cecilia Sanchez, 25, has two children and is pregnant with her third. When asked how far along she is, she simply tilts her head and shrugs. She doesn’t know because she hasn’t been able to see a doctor yet. She lacks the money for the bus to get to the clinic. Sanchez’s husband works as a farmworker each day, sometimes spending more than 12 hours in the field. This month he is picking strawberries. He earns 700 pesos – about $35 – each week.

Farmworkers Protest By Home Of Wendy’s Billionaire Chairman

March 14, 2016 Staff, www.cbsnews.com Resist! Coalition of Immokalee Workers, Farmworkers, Protests, Workers Rights and Jobs

By Staff of CBS and AP - PALM BEACH, Fla. - Hundreds of protesters, many farmworkers, led by Ethel Kennedy, demonstrated near the home of Wendy's fast food chain's chairman in hopes of convincing the company to pay a penny-per-pound fee for its tomatoes to supplement some farmworkers' wages. The Palm Beach Post reports the Immokalee Coalition of Farmworker' march near billionaire Nelson Peltz's home was peaceful Saturday. A federal judge had ruled the coalition could use loudspeakers but said marchers must remain on the sidewalk.

From Farm To Table: Protecting Farmworkers From Pesticides

February 22, 2016 Kari Birdseye, www.earthjustice.org Resist! EPA, Farmworkers, Mortgages, Pesticides

By Kari Birdseye for Earthjustice - At first, the sticky drops raining down were a welcome reprieve from a long, hot day spent uprooting weeds on a Minnesota farm. "I remember thinking, 'This is cool!' As in, 'This will cool me off,'" said Juan Fernando Rodriguez Tellez. As Tellez and his friends continued to pull at the huge weeds tangled within the cornstalks, they paid little attention to the crop duster flying overhead that was supposed to be dousing a neighboring field. Tellez wore long sleeves and pants for protection against the sun, but as he pulled weeds the drizzle leaked inside the glove on his right hand.

Newsletter: Movement Mobilizes To Stop The TPP

November 22, 2015 Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, www.popularresistance.org Newsletter Climate Change, Corporatism, Environment, Farmworkers, Food and Agriculture, GMOs, Healthcare, Jobs, TPP, Trade, Trade Deal, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance. Now that the TPP is public, opposition is rising as we see the TPPis actually worse than expected. In an interview with Jaisal Noor of The Real News, Margaret Flowers explains how the TPP was a victory for the corporations on issue after issue, including reducing wages and worker rights, undermining environmental protection, making healthcare more expensive, undermining Internet freedom and more. Kevin Zeese in a conversation with Chris Hedges talks about how the TPP is the greatest corporate power grab in US history and how people have to rise up to stop the race to the bottom that will affect every aspect of our lives. A few days after the text was released, we highlighted ten shocking realities of the TPP. The final text showed that critics were right about what it would contain. In fact, the TPP is a step backward on many important issues.

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