Posts Tagged ‘California’
Agriculture needs more immigrants
1:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Immigration|Politics · 1 Comment
1 Dec 2005
With all the talk about illegal immigration these days, here’s a perspective you don’t hear a lot:
In total, California farmers worked the harvest season with 100,000 fewer workers than they needed, according to the ag trade group Western Growers.
Tom Nassif, president of that trade group, is spearheading a public lobbying campaign that proclaims what for years was too taboo to say out loud: the agriculture industry relies on undocumented laborers. And Nassif—whose organization represents the growers who supply half of the nation’s fresh produce—says the problem his members face isn’t too many illegal immigrant workers, but too few.
Turkey Dinner Oaxaqueño Style
10:05 am By Maegan La Mala · California|Food · Comments Off
25 Nov 2005
On Thanksgiving Day many individuals from the Oaxaqueño business community served more than 1,500 plates of turkey dinners for the needy at Normandie Park in Los Angeles. What a treat that must’ve been. Now, don’t think that this was your typical run of the mill turkey. The Oaxaqueños prepared four different types of guajolete (as they are called in Mexico), with chipotle chile, a la naranja, enchilada and of course the traditional kind which is prepared in a delicious broth.
The United States has opened its doors for us to introduce our culture and traditions. Not only have we established ourselves with our customs, but we also have adapted to the culinary traditions of this country.
Via / La Opinión
Poisonous Pesticide Clouds
24 Nov 2005
After a pesticide cloud drifted over the town of Earlimart in 1999, sickening 250 people, the state fined Wilbur-Ellis, the company found liable in the case, $150,000, but since then, hundreds of people have been poisoned by pesticide drifts in Kern County. The incidents often occur in the same towns and involve the same companies.
In the Central Valley you see the pesticides being sprayed everywhere, whether it’s by tractor or through the air with a crop duster. On many occasions I will be driving through back roads lined with orange groves and suddenly the car windshield will get sprayed with moisture. You then realize that you have just driven through a pesticide cloud or at least the residue of a recent spraying.
Farmworkers face Exploitation in Salinas Valley
4:02 pm By Maegan La Mala · Immigration|society · Comments Off
23 Nov 2005
It’s ironic that some farm workers live in the “salad bowl of the world,” powered by a 3 billion dollar agricultural industry yet they suffer from all types of socioeconomic ills from high poverty, to high unemployment, to poor housing. Farm workers face exploitative conditions everywhere they look.
Farm workers struggle earning poor wages with little or no benefits while working long hours. In the Salinas Valley area where housing is much more expensive, farm workers face the reality of having to pay in some cases upwards of $600 a month to rent a garage space to live in. In some cases some pay as much as 40 percent of their monthly earnings for housing. Aside from exploitative rent prices many have to worry about paying off debt accured by coming to the United States.
Here I am today, paying little by little, the debt with the coyote and trying to send something to my family that was left behind. But it is not easy, because the pay barely makes ends meet…In a good week, we earn about $200.
Via / La Opinión
Costa a Costa: En vivo, I’m calling it
3:19 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Politics|States · Comments Off
9 Nov 2005Over 80% of districts reporting and all of Arnie’s props are being rejected. No brainer prediction: NO on them all. Buh bye!
Via / California Secretary of State
Costa a Costa: California Latino Media Roundup
4:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Media|Politics · Comments Off
8 Nov 2005
What local Latino, indy and mainstream media is saying
San Francisco
Univision online reports from San Francisco:
…un voluntario en uno de los centros de votación le dijo al Chronicle que habían unas seis personas en las afueras del centro esperando que se abrieran las meses. “Esto me sorprendió. No me lo esperaba. San Francisco es una ciudad que no apoya al Gobernador”, señaló.
El Reportero of San Francisco says:
El Reportero urges you to vote to protect our rights, which are about to be eroded if any of Mr. Schwarzenegger’s state propositions win.
Costa a Costa: Lotso Latinos on the SF Local Ballot
3:07 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Politics|San Francisco · Comments Off
8 Nov 2005
Looking over my ballot book this morning, I found a lot of Latino names for the various local political seats here in San Francisco:
Gerardo Sandoval (Assessor)
Jose Cisneros (Treasurer)
Manuel Valle (Treasurer)
Dennis Herrera (City Attorney, first Latino to hold office in San Francisco)
I’ve said before (as has my colleague la Mala) that I won’t vote for a Latino just because he’s Latino, or any other “minority” for that matter. I was happy to see, however, that the majority of the people on this list seem to stand for same things that I do, so yeah, in a way, I am voting Latino. But it’s just a fluke.
Are there Latinos running for office where you live? Use our contact form or the comment area to tell us about it.
Sigue la batalla
1:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|Politics · Comments Off
31 Oct 2005
As a follow-up to some recent posts on California gubernatorial candidates’ courting of the Latino vote via Spanish-language ad campaigns and town hall meetings, I offer you some excerpts from a piece from today’s edition of the LA Daily News:
The governor taped a town-hall forum on Spanish-language Univision that aired statewide over the weekend, even as opponents launched their first Spanish-language TV ads featuring Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa attacking the governor’s proposals.The high-profile events are just the latest campaign efforts aimed at courting the 2 million Latinos registered to vote in California, accounting for 14 percent of the statewide electorate.
“Maquilajournalism” or the death of the U.S. Latino journalist
12:55 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Bilingualism|California|Media · 3 Comments
28 Oct 2005
Latino residents of the San Francisco Bay Area got a big disappointment this week when Knight-Ridder, the company that owns the San Jose Mercury News, announced that they would be eliminating their Spanish-language publication, Nuevo Mundo. It seems that just when there is a boom in demand for Spanish-language content to respond to advertisers’ needs to reach the market, Nuevo Mundo is making a sudden exit.
The Legacy of Edward Roybal
4:37 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Activism|Politics · Comments Off
26 Oct 2005
I read a blog post today where someone was talking about how happy they were that there were no “real” Latino leaders, so that no one has to deal with the political baggage that goes with them duking it out in the press. Maybe there are no leaders anymore, and if there were, one of them left us on Monday:
Edward R. Roybal, who spent his political career, including three decades in Congress, fighting for minorities, the poor and the elderly, has died. He was 89.
When elected to the House of Representatives in 1962, Roybal was the first Hispanic from California to serve in Congress since 1879. Roybal, who also served more than a decade on the Los Angeles City Council, died Monday night of respiratory failure complicated by pneumonia at Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, according to a spokeswoman for his daughter, Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif.
Leaving behind a legacy is not an easy thing. A lot of people leave this world having left a legacy of success or ambition, yet devoid of meaning. In the case of Roybal, his legacy was of a struggle and a triumph in civil rights for Latinos. Roybal was someone who lived discrimination and out of his hatred for it was born a fight against it.
“A champion for civil rights and social justice like him does not come around every day,” Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said in a statement. “He wanted nothing less than what all Americans strive for — a good job, safe neighborhoods, quality schools and a place to call home.”
A simple legacy, yet a heroic one.
Via / The LA Times
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