Growers Spend Millions to Oppose UFW - Unions

 Ag groups spend millions on ads to discourage California farmworker unionizing. Supporters and members of the United Farm Workers union march in Galt on Tuesday, Aug. 23, 2022 on their way to Sacramento to ask for Gov. Gavin Newsom’s signature on AB 2183. HECTOR AMEZCUA hamezcua@sacbee.com 

What to know BY MATHEW MIRANDA AND MELISSA MONTALVO UPDATED APRIL 15, 2024 10:38 AM

Major agriculture organizations have combined forces to spend millions on Spanish-language radio advertisements discouraging farmworkers from voting in union elections. Radio ads promoting anti-union rhetoric on multiple popular radio stations across the state and Spanish-language digital media over the past nine months have attacked a 2023 California “card check law” aimed to make it easier for farmworkers to vote in union elections. In some cases, the ads platform misinformation, according to labor experts. Behind the majority of the radio ads is the California Farmworker Information Center, a registered nonprofit and charity founded in 2023 by executives from the Western Growers Association, California Fresh Fruit Association and California Citrus Mutual — all groups that opposed the “card check” law.

On Immigration

 

ON THE IMMIGRATION “PROBLEM” April 22, 2924, 9 pm Eastern, 6 pm Pacific Presenty by: The Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism The Socialist Education Project 4 th Monday Webinar Woody Guthrie wrote his famous song “Deportees” in 1948 decrying that “All they will call you will be ‘deportees.’” And “they chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.” He wrote at a time when the US political economy depended upon temporary immigrant labor. Since the 1940s particularly, the globalization of the economy, increased violence and repression within countries (largely involving United States interference), growing income and wealth inequality and poverty, climate catastrophes and the rise of repressive regimes everywhere, emigration has increased. The United Nations has estimated that “the number of international migrants has been robust over the last two decades, reaching 281 million people living outside their country of origin in 2020, up from 173 million in 2000 and 221 million in 2010. Currently, international migrants represent about 3.6 per cent of the world’s population.” And today, they represent a large and growing percentage of the agricultural and manufacturing work force. Now, “the immigration problem” is the issue dominating campaign and election debate. Both parties conceive of immigration as a problem. Is it? What are its causes? What role have immigrants played in America’s economy? How should the left respond to the vicious attack on immigrants and the draconian proposals made by political candidates to address “the problem.” Register in advance for this meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIocO6gpjooHtEaQQpxL9YDVdaS6IOmEjRA

To address this issue the webinar will hear from:

David Bacon writer, photographer, labor organizer. http://dbacon.igc.org/ ""David Bacon is the conscience of American journalism: an extraordinary social documentarist in the rugged humanist tradition of Dorothea Lange, Carey McWilliams,

Anne Lewis Anne comes out of a movement to make media that helps create opportunity for social change. She has made documentary films (always with limited resources) since the 1970¹s and was associate director and assistant camerawoman for HARLAN COUNTY, USA.

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: Happy Birthday Dolores

Choosing Democracy: Happy Birthday Dolores:   Happy Birthday Dolores Dolores Huerta turns 94 today, April 10th! Throughout her remarkable life, she led boycotts alongside Cesar Chavez ...

Dia de La Tierra : Sacramento

 

Republicans’ New Border Target: Migrant Aid Groups

Republicans’ New Border Target: Migrant Aid Groups: Criminalizing the groups providing humanitarian aid at the border won't solve our immigration crisis. But providing them funding might help, writes contributor Miriam Davidson.

College Scholarships Available From LULAC

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For high school students planning to go to college next year. Must be a resident of the Sacramento region. 

Immigration Reform - Not MAGA Politics

 

As a former immigration attorney and a daughter of immigrants, I promise to keep speaking up for immigrants’ rights. I’ve been horrified at the dangerous anti-immigrant rhetoric and policies from Democrats in Congress and the White House. In both bodies of Congress, we’re seeing members voting for xenophobic, fear mongering bills including spending billions of our taxpayer dollars on war and on far-right U.S. border policies to end asylum protections, speed up mass deportations, and lock up more refugees.  President Biden endorsed that bipartisan Senate border bill, invited Trump to “join” him in working on it, and referenced it in last week’s State of the Union address as a priority. In that State of the Union speech, the president called undocumented immigrants “illegals,” prompting a response from human rights groups to affirm that No human being is illegal. We must decriminalize the deeply human act of migration, affirm the rights of all people, and finally create a real path to citizenship for our immigrant neighbors who’ve lived here for years. As Michigan United explains: “We need citizenship and family reunification, not detention and deportations.” Add your name today to tell Democrats in the White House and Congress: Don’t pander to far-right racists on immigration. Don’t dehumanize our immigrant neighbors. Fulfill your campaign promises to push for a more just and humane immigration process, including creating and expanding pathways to citizenship. ADD YOUR NAME In my community, thousands of U.S. citizens can’t get their spouses access to a legal pathway to citizenship because of layers of bureaucracy that leave people waiting 10 or 20 years for an interview.  I’m reaffirming the promise I made to the residents of my congressional district when they sent me to Congress: I will continue taking meaningful actions to end hateful Trump-era immigration policies, reunite families, welcome migrants and asylum seekers, and reform our outdated and inhumane immigration system.  President Biden and other Democrats also made campaign promises to reduce deportations, reunite families, protect people fleeing danger, and support the millions of undocumented people who are already living and working in our communities.  But since Trump left office, deportations have increased, and many Trump-era immigration policies have continued or expanded. This “prisons first, humanity later” approach fails our immigrant communities. The recent Senate bill, which President Biden endorsed and again referenced in his State of the Union address as a priority, would spend an unprecedented amount of taxpayer dollars to expand notoriously inhumane detention centers—including for-profit prisons that work with ICE.  The bill would also send over a billion of our tax dollars for 24-hour “suspicionless surveillance” technology that could be used to profile and harm all immigrant families in the U.S..  Kids are still in cages, and ICE still runs hundreds of abusive jails across the country as part of the world’s largest immigration detention system. Progressives and activists have talked about the need to defund ICE, not send them more money to violate more people’s rights. Please sign to tell Congress and the White House: We need citizenship and family reunification, not detention and deportations. SIGN NOW Thank you. Together we can build a future with dignity and safety for all people. In solidarity, Rashida Tlaib,  U.S. Congress