Tag: farm workers
How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship works to uproot racism in the...
This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system.
Pandemic, wildfires & heat Wave: Undocumented farm workers face ‘triple threat’...
“Farmworkers have continued to work during this whole time, despite fears of contracting COVID-19 in the workplace, despite fears of getting heat stress while they’re at work, and now despite fears of the dangers that wildfire smoke brings.”
‘Bullying of marginalized workers’: Trump moves to slash pay of guest...
"While immigrant farm workers risk their lives working w/o sufficient protection during this dangerous time, this country is excluding them from federal relief packages and lobbying to lower their wages."
Trump hates farmers
He tweets odes to America's small farmers, but his actions are tearing them apart.
As national elections draw closer, millions of farmers facing economic despair...
As India’s agrarian crisis deepens, so too will the social unrest, which may force future elected officials to take action on the growing demands of India’s powerful rural populace.
Slave labor found at Starbucks-certified Brazil coffee plantation
Investigators have found that laborers on the farm’s coffee plantations were working under degrading conditions and living in substandard housing without sewerage or drinking water.
Berry farmers break free from Big Agriculture
These farmworkers created an organic co-op that guarantees fair wages and healthy working conditions while preserving indigenous heritage.
From the border land: A Kennedy fasts with farm workers again
"Peace, compassion and justice for those who have suffered, that's what the United States should stand for."
Inequality is feeding America
It's time to treat all farm workers with the respect due to the people who really are essential to our food security.
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Iran retaliation revives scrutiny of US military bases across the Gulf
Iranian strikes on Gulf energy sites and renewed threats against American installations are exposing how decades of US military expansion in the Middle East have tied Washington to regional regimes while increasing risks of wider war.
Traders placed massive bets minutes before Trump Iran post raising insider trading concerns
Unusual oil and stock trades worth hundreds of millions of dollars occurred minutes before the president’s social media announcement about Iran peace talks, prompting calls for investigations into possible insider knowledge.
Mo. Senator Eric Schmitt’s asinine SHIELD Act would classify blowing whistles as ‘Obstruction of...
Meanwhile Schmitt ignores blatant obstruction by Bondi’s DOJ.
Raskin says DOJ memo suggests Trump retained classified documents tied to business interests
New disclosures raise questions about whether highly restricted national security materials were kept for private advantage.
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