Our New Anahuac

Depending on the society, there are people today who are beaten, killed and shot, when trying to organize the strength of workers. Families are broken apart due to social conditions. For example, the same forces that have brought people here in an undocumented way are the same forces that are splitting them up by deportation. [...]

There has been a great deal made of the Republican theme, “We Built It.” Jon Stewart made some remarks worth a few good laughs. This morning, I saw a facebook post with some slavery-era photos of blacks and a picture of the white house. It was captioned, “We Built It.” I started to think..the post [...]

Since the days of Cesar Chavez, the politics of the farm worker have been much more publicized than almost any sector of work in our community. Chicanos, Mexicanos and Central Americans are over represented in many other industries, yet the struggles of the farm worker continue to make headlines more frequently than other sectors of [...]

July 08, 2011 Greetings! L. A. DISTRICT ATTORNEY SETTLES CASE AGAINST NATIVO LOPEZ   By: Alexis Calvo A settlement not totally to the liking of the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office was finally reached after twenty-four months of attempting to bring to trial the case against Nativo Lopez, National President of the Mexican American Political [...]

I was reading this post called Union Busting is Market Manipulation and Wage Theft. The post was on DirtyHippies, and part of the argument I found to be very insightful. I love theory, even though it is often difficult to debate via the internets. Here is a portion of the argument, along with my response. [...]

A friend of mine, Pancho Arguelles, forwarded our coalition a statement from Immigrant Communities In Action, which stated emphatically that the call for Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR), must not be an endorsement for the Schumer/Graham Four-Pillar Blueprint.  The statement reads: Our call as immigrant workers, families, and youth is for a reform rooted in our [...]

Late last year, I posted about The United Farmworker’s Union (UFW) and their campaign against Giumarra, the largest table grape company in the world.  Being that the UFW was home to Cesar Chavez, whom certain conservatives are literally trying to write out of the history books, I thought this update would be important.  Please consider [...]

The Brown Berets and other organizations are gearing up for a protest against Larry Whitten of the Whitten Inn in Taos, New Mexico to protest his controversial employment practices in which he required all of his employees to speak only English in his presence.  He even went so far as to require that employees either [...]

The historic United Farm Workers, organizing home to Cesar Chavez, has launched a new campaign targeting Giumarra, the world’s largest table grape company.  The company employs over 3500 pickers, and it picks one out of every ten bunches of grapes picked in the US. Still the company does not have a union contract with its [...]