In 2025, families faced uncertainty, organizers felt exhaustion and frontline communities continued to live with the daily reality of pesticide exposure. Yet even amid struggle, the year reminded us [...] Continue Reading
Agriculture
Southeast Development Project Scaled Back
Community activism is forcing the City of Fresno to rethink its ambitious and controversial Southeast Development Area (SEDA) plan. The proposed development project of massive proportions would [...] Continue Reading
1,3-D Policy Endangers Our Children
Across California, farmworker communities are sounding the alarm: The state’s regulation of the cancer-causing fumigant 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D, brand name Telone) is not only dangerously [...] Continue Reading
La Política Sobre el 1,3-D Pone en Peligro a Nuestros Hijos
POR CRISTINA GUTIERREZ Las recientes regulaciones del Departamento de Regulación de Pesticidas (DPR) permiten que los escolares estén expuestos a 1,3-D 14 veces más que el nivel de exposición [...] Continue Reading
Farming Communities Protest Fumigant Regulations
Californians for Pesticide Reform has launched an assault on the state’s regulation of agricultural fumigants 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D) and chloropicrin, calling on the Department of Pesticide [...] Continue Reading
Comunidades Protestan Contra las Regulaciones de Fumigantes
La organización Californians for Pesticide Reform (Californianos por la Reforma de los Pesticidas) ha lanzado una ofensiva contra la regulación estatal de los fumigantes agrícolas 1,3-dicloropropeno y [...] Continue Reading
Great Delano Grape Strike Revisited
“I remember, as a child, three or four years old, going to funerals of men in Pixley, Arvin, Ducor, Visalia, throughout the Central Valley. These men had died alone, by themselves. I remember burying [...] Continue Reading
La Gran Huelga de la Uva de Delano de 1965: Lecciones para Construir una Coalición Multiétnica
POR BOB McCLOSKEY e I.SMILEY CALDERON “Recuerdo, de niño, a los tres o cuatro años, asistir a los funerales de hombres en Pixley, Arvin, Ducor, Visalia, por todo el Valle Central. Estos hombres [...] Continue Reading
No More Broken Promises
For decades, rural communities in California have carried the burden of toxic pesticides sprayed near their homes, schools and workplaces. Among the worst is 1,3-dichloropropene (1,3-D), a [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth: Striving to Thrive
As in most small towns, Allensworth’s children are at the heart of community life. Whether it is the school play, sporting events or holidays, kids bring people together as a community. Families [...] Continue Reading
Allensworth: Buscando la Prosperidad
Como en la mayoría de los pueblos pequeños, los niños de Allensworth son el centro de la vida comunitaria. Ya sea en la obra de teatro escolar, eventos deportivos o días festivos, los niños unen a la [...] Continue Reading
Explorando el Uso del Suelo en el Valle de San Joaquín
¿Quién decide cómo se utiliza el suelo en el Valle de San Joaquín? ¿Cómo afectan esas decisiones nuestras vidas? ¿Qué podemos hacer al respecto? Estas preguntas fueron el tema central de una gira de [...] Continue Reading