En los campos agrícolas del Valle de San Joaquín, particularmente en los alrededores de Fresno, históricamente mi comunidad de San Miguel Cuevas, Oaxaca—al igual que otras comunidades indígenas—ha [...] Continue Reading
Agriculture
Celebrating Small Organic Farmers
The San Joaquin Valley, often called the “fruit basket of the world,” has some of the highest concentration of pesticides and herbicides in the world. Central Valley families all live with the [...] Continue Reading
Pesticide Reform Movement
Below are important updates on helping to advance health protections for farmworking families. Federal Preemption Attempt Pesticide regulation falls under combined laws among federal, state and [...] Continue Reading
Serving Rural Communities
Michael Evans has produced this informative slide show about the Community Alliance effort to serve the rural communities in the San Joaquin Valley. You can see the slide show below. This is a .pdf [...] Continue Reading
Budget Cuts Proposed for Medi-Cal
(Editor’s note: This story is a product of the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative.) Undocumented immigrants in California will bear the brunt of reductions in healthcare and nutrition programs [...] Continue Reading
Standing Together for Healthier Communities
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
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