US Edition‘Reign of Terror’ or Law Enforcement? Debate Over Immigration Raids in Carpinteria and Camarillo | News Channel 3-12
CARPINTERIA AND CAMARILLO, CALIFORNIA, JUL 17 – At least 361 undocumented workers were arrested and one died during raids on cannabis farms, prompting about 2,000 farmworkers statewide to strike for labor rights and dignity.
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California cannabis companies hoped Trump would be an ally. Then the raids happened
After massive federal raids last week at two Southern California cannabis farms, the United Farm Workers posted an urgent message to its social media accounts. Because weed remains illegal under federal law, the union advised workers who are not U.S. citizens to avoid jobs in the cannabis industry, even at state-licensed facilities. “We know this is unfair,” the United Farm Workers wrote Monday, “but we encourage you to protect yourself and your…
Farmworkers strike for dignity amid immigration raids
Farmworkers across California have launched a strike called "Huelga Para La Dignidad" or "Strike for Dignity" in response to ongoing immigration raids targeting agricultural communities."This is a grassroots effort, farmworkers who wanted to rise and be heard," said Flor Martinez Zaragoza, an activist and former farmworker from San Jose.The strike, which began after a press conference held Monday at La Placita Olvera in Los Angeles, comes as a d…
Yes, California's Local Police and Prosecutors Can Go After Federal Agents | Connecting California
Might the answer to Southern California’s present emergency—how to stop masked federal agents from seizing its people—lie in a half-century-old story from the North State cannabis lands of Humboldt County? On April 4, 1972, a hippie couple—24-year-old Dirk Dickenson and his girlfriend Judy Arnold, who had relocated from the Bay Area—were drinking Jack Daniel’s in their remote cabin outside the tiny unincorporated town of Garberville when a U.S. …
California farm workers who started a three-day strike in protest of recent immigration raids demanded that a path be established for the legal recognition of undocumented immigrants working in the U.S. countryside. In the context of the so-called “Huelga for Dignity,” the organizers called on migrants who work as day laborers to join the strike “to defend our rights and make them value us.” Two of their demands are to stop the immigration raids…
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