#FarmWorkers

Anna O. Law

UnlawfulEntries

Re: Trump's forthcoming Exec Order to "temporarily suspend" immigration to the US, today's NYT said, "Mr. Trump’s primary focus appears to be on protecting American workers as the virus ravages

Tina Tchen

TinaTchen

Low-paid workers - majority women, disproportionately women of color - are suffering economically in unprecedented ways. Millions are jobless.To those looking for ways to support these workers, who have long

Soph-cially Distancing Geffros

sgeffros

Farmwork is backbreaking, skilled labour that is often paid in piecework (flats of berries, they haunt my dreams) that results in you earning significantly less than minimum wage, and I

Victoria Stead

tori_stead

Spending my Saturday morning at #AAACASCA2019 listening to a stellar lineup of critical food studies folks talking about their new books. Interested in #food politics, #agriculture, discard studies, critical race

Matt Hildreth

mhildreth

I've spent a decade working with rural immigrant communities across South Dakota, Iowa, and Minnesota. Everyone I know is telling me that the meat packing #COVID19 outbreaks in their communities

NBC News

NBCNews

Working at home isn't an option for millions of Americans.From prisons and meatpacking plants, to grocery stores and buses, @NBCNews identified 7 occupations in which employees are at especially high

Jessica Ramos

jessicaramos

Team Ramos is prepared to share hundreds of bags filled with fruits, veggies, dairy & snacks thanks to@NE_Agribusiness @NYCornandSoy @NewYorkChips@KLamb14125 @nedpa_ny & many more farms from NY!Today: 10 AM until

Erika Andiola

ErikaAndiola

This quote: When I worked with the farmworkers in California I learned the difference between charity and justice. "Charity asks, 'what's wrong, how can I help?'Justice asks, 'why is it

OPB

OPB

Good evening, all. Ready for an emoji-laden pandemic update? Good. Because here it comes. This is your daily thread of Northwest coronavirus news for Thursday. NEW NUMBERS

OCord

okxanacordova

For today's GreenWeekFinale, we will be talking about a topic especially close to my heart, undocumented workers. Some of you may question what this has to do with the environment,

Rebecca Burnell 🌍

Beccabluesky

A thread where I collect info about ongoing food production disruptions, Covid-related & otherwise.#CovidFoodSecurity https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/honeybee-alberta-canada-import-1.5515575 #CovidFoodSecurity https://beta.ctvnews.ca/loca

Marc Brazeau

eatcookwrite

This NYT piece on the dawning realization that farmworkers do essential work regardless of their citizenship status touches on — without mentioning — two related economic phenomena that are necessary

Holly Figueroa O'Reilly

AynRandPaulRyan

RANT:1/ Trump says it's up to the governors to do testing.That means no federal financial support.He also says we are at war, and he's a wartime president.If he's a wartime

Billy Gendell

billygendell

This thanksgiving, I'm thankful for @BernieSanders commitment to food justice. A promise to farmers, farmworkers, food service workers, and the millions of Americans who go hungry that we are going

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Rural areas are ultra-conservative because they've been engineered to be that way on purpose.The narrative about "agribusiness taking over and forcing family farms to compete with each other"is nearly 100%

Jose A. Del Real

jdelreal

In my latest story, I explore how water infrastructure in California's Central Valley remains tainted by the legacy of Jim Crow. This story is about water, but it's also about