Hundreds of youth (and a few of us from WhyHunger!) gathered at the end of July in South Los Angeles for the 15th annual Rooted in Community (RIC) Youth Leadership Summit, themed this year “Reclaiming Our Land, Reclaiming Our Roots.” While there is a ton to share, we’d like to start with a rap from Dante Kaleo, from the food
07-08-2013
All farmworker family photos by Star Angelina Murray. This post originally appeared on Care2. Over 200 immigrant farmworkers have been on strike for almost a month at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington State, one of the nation's largest berry farms. The strike was initiated in protest of what was believed to be an unjust firing of a worker; the workers
07-08-2013
Hundreds of youth (and a few of us from WhyHunger!) gathered at the end of July in South Los Angeles for the 15th annual Rooted in Community (RIC) Youth Leadership Summit, themed this year “Reclaiming Our Land, Reclaiming Our Roots.” While there is a ton to share, we’d like to start with a rap from Dante Kaleo, from the food
07-08-2013
All farmworker family photos by Star Angelina Murray. This post originally appeared on Care2. Over 200 immigrant farmworkers have been on strike for almost a month at Sakuma Brothers Farms in Washington State, one of the nation's largest berry farms. The strike was initiated in protest of what was believed to be an unjust firing of a worker; the workers
07-08-2013