Magon: The Deportation Chronicles, Pt. 3

January 23, 2013 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: DACA, Deportation Chronicles, DREAM Act, DREAMers, Eastern Coachella Valley, ICE, immigration reform, jesus valenzuela, Jesus Valenzuela Felix, Joaquin Magon, Mary Bono Mack, Raul Ruiz

[Translate]     The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 24: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 3 Raul: Those Who Said Goodbye In 2010, there were an estimated 387,000 “removals” according to Department of Homeland Security documents.

Magon: The Deportation Chronicles, Pt. 2

January 18, 2013 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella, DACA, Deferred Action, Deportation, Eastern Coachella Valley, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Operation Stone Garden

[Translate]     The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 23: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 2   Mayte: The Haves and the Have Nots of Immigration One of the greatest fears is driving.

Magon: The Deportation Chronicles, Pt. 1

January 14, 2013 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Comite Latino, DACA, Deferred Action, Deportation, Deportation Chronicles, Eastern Coachella Valley, ICE, immigration, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Mario Lazcano, Operation Stone Garden

[Translate]     The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 22: The Deportation Chronicles, Part 1 The year 2012 has come to a close and the numbers of those removed from the United States are released – 409,849 individuals caught, trapped, nabbed, thrown into the patty wagon and kicked out with a boot – a record high.

Joaquín Magón: Coachella en el Corazon

December 24, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon

[Translate]     The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 21 Coachella En El Corazón: Reflections on A Home Town   I am back home in the Coachella Valley.

Joaquin Magon: On Strikes, Power, and Unions

December 5, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Amarral, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Nob Hill, strikes, UFW, United Farm Workers

[Translate]   The Diary of Joaquin Magon Entry 20 About a month ago, I was talking to workers on strike at Nob Hill, a chain of high-end grocery stores, trying to figure out what moved them to take this major step.

Joaquín Magón: Farm Workers Will Benefit From Prop 37

November 3, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella, Dana Pearls, diary of joaquin magon, Farm Workers, food justice, GMO, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Methyl Iodide, Pesticide Action Network, pesticides, Prop 37, Proposition 37, Salinas, UFW

[Translate]   Entry 19: Farm Workers Left Out of Prop 37 Discussion, But Have a Stake SALINAS – As an organizer with the United Farm Workers, I’ve grown accustomed to seeing farm workers routinely be excluded or absent from the public discourse happening around issues of food justice.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: The Incredible Story of Griselda

September 10, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Baja California, Calexico, Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, community organizer, coyotes, Eastern Coachella Valley, El Norte, El Salvador, Farm Workers, Guatemala, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, Mexicali, migrant workers, north, Oaxaca, Salton Sea, Sinaloa, strawberry, strawberry fields, UFW, United Farm Workers

[Translate]     Entry 18: The Incredible Story of Griselda, A Migrant Farm Worker   I worked in your orchards of peaches and prunes I slept on the ground in the light of the moon On the edge of the city you’ll see us and then We come with the dust and we go with the wind -Pastures of Plenty, Woody Guthrie   Griselda left, as many of them do.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: An Organic Strawberry Recalls

August 22, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: An Organic Strawberry Recalls, Coachella, community organizer, Farm Workers, Food Justice Movement, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, organic strawberries, organic strawberry, oxnard, Salinas, strawberry, strawberry fields, The Diary of Joaquín Magón, UFW, United Farm Workers

[Translate] Entry 17: An Organic Strawberry Recalls   An Organic Strawberry Recalls: I grew up around Griselda.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: An Organizer Defined

July 30, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Coachella, community organizer, community organizers, Dolores Huerta, Farm Workers, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, organizer, organizers, Salinas, salinas valley, The Diary of Joaquín Magón, UFW, United Farm Workers

[Translate]   The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 16: An Organizer Defined As I look at the desolate power of a voice that cannot be heard, hands that can lift a million crates, eyes that can see through lies, and smiles that bend like the crescent moon our mothers worshipped, I see that the hope is at times as thin as the space in between strawberry rows that flow through the ground like tuned guitar strings.