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March 20, 2006
The Chicano All-Stars Strike Back
There are few things lamer than Chicano yaktivists whining about negative coverage that shed light on sordid truths. It happened earlier this year when the Los Angeles Times published an epic four-part series on the once-proud United Farm Workers, an organization that went from the moral center of t ... More >>
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April 12, 2006
Cesar Chavez Legacy, Half-Off!
As if the once-proud United Farm Workers couldn't get any lamer (see tiny-ass picture below), along comes a UFW spring sale. "Sooner or later the march ends and you have to go home," goes their breathless pitch. "Bummer...but don't just sit there! You can still remember Cesar Chavez and support the ... More >>
Blogs
May 23, 2007
Unfortunate Acronym of the Day
Earlier today, representatives from the Arizona Interfaith Network, Irish Lobby for Immigration Reform, Kansas City's El Centro and the United Farm Workers set up a teleconference call to argue why comprehensive immigration reform is necessary. They met under the name Coalition for Comprehensive Imm ... More >>
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February 6, 2006
UFW vs. LAT
The United Farm Workers union, founded by the late Cesar Chavez, is firing back at the Los Angeles "By God" Times over last month's four-part series alleging all kinds of financial shenanigans and union ineffectiveness. But the UFW won't have that series' writer, Miriam Pawel, to kick around anymore ... More >>
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January 6, 2000
HERE ALREADY
Re-creating Southern California in Southern California
Blogs
October 14, 2008
Nativo Lopez Organization Cowardly Stays "Neutral" on Propositions 8 and 4
Remember Nativo Lopez? Guy called Larry who became radicalized during the 1960s, led renter strikes against SanTana slumlords during the 1980s, served on the SanTana Unified School Board during the 1990s, then was recalled for his conflict-of-influenza, amongst other sins in early 2004? He's spent t ... More >>
News
April 15, 2004
Massacre at Agua Caliente
Indian tribes kick a little worker ass in the desert
Columns
July 3, 2008
[¡Ask a Mexican!®] Cherry-Picking César Chávez
Indian tribes kick a little worker ass in the desert
News
December 20, 2007
Sisterly Concern
UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers
Columns
February 1, 2007
!Ask a Mexican!
How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names?
Columns
February 9, 2006
Letters
'Nice Job Crapping All Over the Drummer, Bung-hole'
Columns
December 29, 2005
!Ask a Mexican!
The year in Mexican-bashing
News
October 16, 2003
Blame the Democrats
They need to stop acting like drunks at court-ordered AA meetings and sober up
Film
November 14, 2002
All in the Family Pinoyed
Rod Pulidos The Flip Side
Columns
May 25, 2000
Union Maid
Apathy is sooo 1990s
Columns
February 17, 2000
Cesar Salud
Apathy is sooo 1990s
Music
September 23, 1999
The Politics of Dance
Ozomatli turns protest music on its head
Features
January 7, 1999
April-June
Ozomatli turns protest music on its head
Columns
August 27, 1998
El Vez has left the building
And GOP boys will be boys
Blogs
February 9, 2010
A Fastpass to Hunger Pains for Disney Hotel Workers
disneyisunfaithful.orgWhat would Walt do?The UniteHere Local 11 union is set to stage a fast, starting at 5 p.m., in front of Disney's Grand Californian Hotel & Spa in Anaheim to bring attention to the workers unresolved contractual issues with the resort industry giant. A candlelight vigil w ... More >>
Blogs
February 15, 2010
Why is the OC Hispanic Bar Association Kissing Disney's Ass?
If you look at the logo of the Orange County Hispanic Bar Association (OCHBA) to the left, you'll notice a take on the United Farm Workers' stylized Aztec eagle--a connection to its roots from the Chicano Movement, a reminder that la lucha continues in the present day, and a harbinger of the futu ... More >>
Columns
May 27, 2010
Special Ethnic-Studies Edition
[¡Ask a Mexican!] Historical ignorance leads to hate, hate leads to anger . . .
Blogs
July 31, 2010
Why isn't Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Fighting Anti-Immigrant Loons?
One of the few positive transformations in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States over the last half-century has been its increasingly Aztlanista tendencies. This trajectory was helped along in the late 1960s and 1970s by no less a priest than Roger Mahony, now cardinal of the Los Angeles ... More >>
Blogs
August 12, 2010
Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion Joins Dolores Huerta Benefit
www.myspace.com/onedayasalionZack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion is joining the already-stellar line up of human rights activist Dolores Huerta's 80th birthday, at a benefit concert at the Greek Theatre tomorrow. One Day As A Lion, which takes all the energy of Rage Against ... More >>
Blogs
September 14, 2010
UPDATED: Sal Tinajero Says He Has Proof of Vote-Splitting Plot in Santa Ana
Christopher Victorio/OC WeeklyCouncilman Sal TinajeroExcept for me and Sal Tinajero, the oversized, second-floor debate classroom at Fullerton Union High School was empty. Newspaper clips hailing Tinajero's success as a teacher (he was named National Teacher of the Year in 2005 by Hispanic magazi ... More >>
News
September 16, 2010
Vote-Splitting Plot In Santa Ana
[Moxley Confidential] Sal Tinajero says he has proof his opponent and former opponent were in cahoots
Blogs
April 1, 2011
[UPDATED: Local Event Canceled] Corridos for Cesar Chavez Day!
UPDATE, APR. 1, 3:32 P.M.: The local Cesar Chavez Day celebration has been canceled according to organizers. ORIGINAL ITEM, MAR. 31, 2:40 P.M.: Cesar Chavez, the late labor leader of the United Farm Workers, would have turned 84 years old today had he not passed away in 1993. To mark the occasio ... More >>
Blogs
June 27, 2011
Looming Deadline For Gov. Jerry Brown in United Farm Worker's-Backed SB 104
Alas, he can ignore it no more. Gov. Jerry Brown has to either sign or veto SB 104 by 11:59 p.m. tomorrow. The bill, which was introduced by Sen. Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), would get rid of secret-ballot elections and implement a card-check method for farm workers deciding whethe ... More >>
Blogs
June 29, 2011
[UPDATED with Veto:] Looming Deadline For Gov. Jerry Brown in United Farm Worker's-Backed SB 104
UPDATE, JUNE 29, 2:55 P.M.: The last line in Gov. Jerry Brown's letter addressed to state senators reads: "I am returning Senate Bill 104 without my signature."In the veto letter, Brown cites his past experience with farm labor legislation. He reminds the readers that in 1975 the nation's fi ... More >>
Blogs
October 19, 2011
[UPDATE: Protest is THIS FRIDAY] Coalition of Immokalee Workers in Town to Explain Campaign Against Trader Joe's
UPDATE: Protest is THIS FRIDAY. More information at the CIW's website--see you there!Original post Oct. 10, 10:30 a.m.: Earlier this summer, we reported on an anti-Trader Joe's campaign launched by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers, those Florida-based mensches who have done more to combat the f ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
[UPDATE: With Irvine Protest] Occupy Santa Ana March Sees Large Turnout; Protest In Front of John Wayne Airport Tonight
Brandon FergusonUPDATE NOVEMBER 17, 2011 8:30 P.M.: The most amusing part about this evening's Occupy protest in front of John Wayne Airport was the bewildered faces of cranky business travelers as they wheeled their suitcases through chanting crowds on the way back to their cars. But widesp ... More >>

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