Author: Bertha Rodríguez Santos

A Harvest of Justice in San Quintin?

May 18, 2015

The farm workers of the San Quintin Valley have gotten the federal government to commit to facilitating negotiations for a wage hike. But movement leaders warn that the the agreement is still not a victory.

Inicia la cosecha de justicia en San Quintín

May 16, 2015

Aunque los jornaleros del Valle de San Quintín lograron que el gobierno federal mexicano se comprometiera a facilitar la negociación de un aumento salarial para los más de 80 mil trabajadores agrícolas de esa región de Baja California, aún no se puede hablar de un triunfo.

The Movement that Stood Up to Agro-Industry

May 8, 2015

The millions the big growers make in profits contrasts sharply to the biting poverty of the men and women who work their fields in the San Quintin Valley of Baja California. A new movement has exposed the conditions they suffer– and their determination to improve them.

Un movimiento que sacudió a la agroindustria

May 5, 2015

Las ganancias millonarias y la abundante prosperidad por parte de los agricultores frente a una precariedad lacerante de quienes hacen producir los campos en el Valle de San Quintín, Baja California, son condiciones que han quedado al descubierto luego del movimiento de los jornaleros agrícolas iniciado hace un par de meses.

Communication Strategies for Binational Defense of Indigenous Communities

February 16, 2009

The immigration of thousands of Oaxacans to the United States beginning in the 1970s and the lack of government attention given to their native communities has led the Indigenous Front of Binational Organizations (Frente Indígena de Organizaciones Binacionales, FIOB) to develop communication strategies that serve as tools to further the binational defense of the participating indigenous communities’ rights.