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A farmworker group in Watsonville is speaking out after a local church terminated the lease on land used for a community garden. The group, called Tierras Milperas, has grown food for local families for 12 years on property which belongs to the All Saints/Cristo Rey Episcopal Church. After a...
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During the annual meeting of UnidosUS, one of the largest advocacy groups for Latinos, First Lady Jill Biden wanted to flatter Hispanics: “The diversity of this community, as different as the bodegas in the Bronx, as beautiful as the Miami flowers and as unique as the breakfast tacos here...
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Durante la reunión anual de UnidosUS, uno de los más grandes grupos de abogacía por los latinos, la primera dama Jill Biden, quiso lisonjear a los hispanos: “La diversidad de esta comunidad, tan distinta como las bodegas del Bronx, tan hermosa como las flores de Miami y tan única...
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Local nonprofits in the Bay Area are tackling hunger in low-income neighborhoods by stocking corner stores and “community fridges” around town with free healthy meals. The HOPE Collaborative in Oakland has received a $5,500 grant to help with this effort, from the Health, Environment, Agriculture and Labor Food Alliance – known as...
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The California legislature is considering a bill – SB 911 by Sen. Steve Glazer (D-Contra Costa) – that would dedicate $25 million in state surplus funds to local and ethnic journalism. It would also stab the independent ethnic media sector in the heart. That’s why, despite the financial pressures...
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“America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” The quote from Henry Kissinger – one of the most famous heads of US diplomacy, for both good and bad reasons – could be applied to relations between the United States and Mexico, specifically to President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s...
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“Estados Unidos no tiene amigos o enemigos permanentes, sólo tiene intereses”. La cita de Henry Kissinger –uno de los jefes de la diplomacia estadounidenses más célebres, por buenas y malas razones—podría aplicarse a las relaciones entre Estados Unidos y México, a propósito de la visita del presidente Andrés Manuel...
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El polvo se arremolina en el aire en una fábrica de cemento en las afueras de Redding mientras los neumáticos cubiertos de lodo viajan a lo largo de una ancha cinta transportadora. Los neumáticos se transportan 90 pies hasta un incinerador ardiendo sin llama, donde se usan como combustible...
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Dust swirls in the air at a cement factory on the outskirts of Redding as mud-caked tires travel along a wide conveyor belt. The tires are carried up 90 feet into a smoldering-hot incinerator, where they’re used as fuel for firing a kiln. The massive, 2,700-degree kiln at the...