Rev. Jesse Jackson died at his Chicago home at 84-years-old. Throughout his life, Jackson championed voting rights, economic ...

When famed farmworker photographer David Bacon started working for the United Farm Workers as an organizer in the 1970s, people asked what he — a “white boy” who “didn’t speak Spanish” or “know ...

For nearly a century, Washington’s farmworkers have been denied the basic labor rights afforded to nearly all other private ...

When my family migrated from New México to California in the late 1960s, César E. Chávez was in the midst of his crusade to gain labor rights for the farm workers who made fortunes for grape growers ...

Birth of a movement -- Capitalism in reverse -- Workers of the world, unite! -- Stuck in the middle -- A bitter harvest -- Busy dying -- Rotting from the inside out -- Some were more equal than others ...

Since our organization, the Family Farm Defenders (FFD), began in the early 1990s, we knew that the fate of food and farm systems around the world are inexorably linked to one another. We witnessed ...