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Posts Tagged as "farmworkers"

New Mecca Comfort Station Open for Migrant Farmworkers

November 4, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: farmworkers, Galilee Cener, Mecca, Mecca Comfort Station, Migrant Fieldworkers

[Translate] By Amanda Flores Mecca, Calif. — This week the Galilee Center’s Mecca Comfort Station addition officially opened to provide much-needed services for migrant farm workers in the Eastern Coachella Valley.

Remembering Cesar Chavez and Raising the Next Generation of Organizers

March 31, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, Coachella Valley High School, college of the desert, Eastern Coachella Valley, farmworker rights, farmworkers, Indio, MECha, New America Media, UFW, United Farm Workers, youth journalism

[Translate] AMBER AMAYA and CHRISTIAN MENDEZ / Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA — Pins from a United Farm Workers of America Convention were scattered across a long table covered in a bright red banner.

Lideres Campesinas: Fighting for Farmworker Women

March 28, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella Unincorporated, Eastern Coachella Valley, farmworker women, farmworkers, Lideres Campesinas

[Translate] AMBER AMAYA / Coachella Unincorporated Editor’s Note: For the past 27 years, Lideres Campesinas, a nonprofit organization based in Oxnard, Calif.,

Hard Winter for California Farmworkers

December 23, 2014 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: California fields, Coachella, Eastern Coachella Valley, farmworkers, Merced, unemployment

[Translate] New America Media, Photo Essay, David Bacon, Posted: Dec 22, 2014 Above: Vidal Cota is an immigrant farm worker from Los Mochis, Sinaloa.