by Marianne Martinez | Dec 16, 2017 | Blog
By: Taylor Anne Fie With farmworker health, the discussion tends to lean towards the physical: the toxic effects of pesticides on the body, the breakdown of joints and chronic pain from manual labor, and malnutrition. We often skirt around the emotional, not out of...
by Marianne Martinez | Dec 16, 2017 | Blog
By: Taylor Anne Fie Before recessing for the holidays, Congress has a handful of important decisions to make, one of them being continued funding and replacement legislation for DACA, which is set to expire in March 2018. DACA, or the Deferred Action for Childhood...
by Marianne Martinez | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog, Recent News
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by Marianne Martinez | Nov 21, 2017 | Blog, Recent News
By: Jessica Rodriguez My interest in the farmworker movement goes back to my family. I have many relatives who have worked in the past as farmworkers, my father being one of them. My family members have shared their stories with me about the struggles they faced as...
by Marianne Martinez | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
By: Taylor Anne Fie On October 25th, the House Judiciary Committee passed the Agricultural Guestworker Act (HR 4092), or “AG Act,” sponsored by Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA). The AG Act will replace the H-2A program with an H-2C program, providing 450,000...
by Marianne Martinez | Nov 13, 2017 | Blog
By: Taylor Anne Fie Natural disasters wreak havoc on the lives of many, but news reporting in the wake of recent events like Hurricane Irma and the California fires tend to focus on the damage done to crops and farms and not so much to those working them. Migrant...
