United Farm Workers to all of us: Be grateful for abundance we have, while we still have it.
Arturo Rodriguez is just settling back into his San Antonio routine after spending the last month in Arizona working for the Harris-Walz campaign. The former president of the United Farm Workers knocked on doors along with other union volunteers in Latino neighborhoods, answering voters’ questions and appealing to registered voters to get to the polls. Rodriguez made appearances on Radio Campesina , a network operated by the César Chávez Foundation.
Catch up on Elaine’s podcast 'Nosotros' on YouTube They load up on spinach, squash, serrano chiles, tomatoes and onions. They get sweet kale, when they can find it, and potatoes and eggs, always. “Another big product that we get is wine,” he said, chuckling, “because farm workers produce wine.” After a “shellacking,” as former President Barack Obama described the 2010 mid-term elections — and what the Harris campaign got in 2024 — a task like grocery shopping can be therapeutic.
U.S. citizen may be caught up in mass deportations President-elect Donald Trump promises large-scale operations. “The federal government consistently says that well over 50% of the workforce is undocumented,” he said, emphasizing that the coronavirus pandemic finally showed farm workers to be essential workers. “From our experience, day-to-day working in the fields, we find that it’s more like 70 to 80% without legal status,” he said. “That’s just been a reality now for a long time.” Getting U.
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