According to the Farmworker Health Study, published earlier this year following in-depth interviews with more than 1,200 farmworkers across California, between one-third and one-half of farmworkers surveyed suffer from chronic diseases, including diabetes and hypertension. The vast majority are considered either overweight or obese.

Carter threatened to give Torres’s papers to a lawyer, even to a judge. “I said they were same as most people here in the camp. But then Vanessa said she was checking theirs too, and they’d have to leave as well. I thought she’d call the migra. If I made a fuss she said I’d have to pay thousands of dollars.”

THE Philippine Consulate General in San Francisco organized a Consular Outreach Mission in Poplar, California on March 11, 2023 at the Larry Itliong Resource Center (4665 Road 192, Poplar, California 93257), providing a total of 272 services.

Rosario Reyes, widow of Wilfredo Navares, stands in front of the Larry Itliong Resource Center in Poplar, where the couple received food and support during his illness.

The assistant director under Cesar Chavez when the United Farm Workers (UFW) was created, Larry organized and led protests for equal pay and dignified living conditions for farm and cannery workers throughout the West Coast and Alaska from the 1930s to when the UFW was created in 1966.

This is the story we want and need to tell, in all its brilliant beauty, about Larry and the Filipinos who fought for dignity in the fields and united for the first time with the Mexican community in Delano, California.

This is historic and will take the artistry of the creative team but the collective power of stakeholders including the Filipino American and Mexican American communities at-large in San Francisco and beyond. To date, Filipino American artists from the Bay Area to Broadway have joined with us in telling this important story.

“We have to be a community to support each other and be transformative in out lives together,” said one of the interns, and another said, “Never be ashamed of where you come from.”

POPLAR – What began as a vision and a dream has become a reality for the small community of Poplar. On Saturday, they held a grand opening of Central Valley Empowerment Alliance’s Youth Leadership Center which has been named “Lupe’s Promise.”

POPLAR – Poplar youth went before the Poplar Community Service District regular board meeting on Thursday evening to address what they would like to see in Poplar’s new park. On the agenda were discussions regarding the park’s grant and the park’s blue print. The youth spoke during the Public Comments segment of the meeting.

Support Farmworker Children or Deliver Gifts to: Attn: Farmworker Children’s Toy Drive 14665 Road 192, Poplar, Ca. 93257

“Coming here in the civil rights movement where there was so much movement so much action folks really asserting their rights and their power to change their future. You know I was so happy to be part of that,” said Cynthia Bonta a member of the Board of Directors of Central Valley Empowerment Alliance.

Iconic labor leader Dolores Huerta joins California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and State Treasurer Fiona Ma in Poplar California to Celebrate Larry Itliong Day.

“We had the kids all lined up for the vaccines. We were about to start when we heard someone shouting into a microphone to get out,” said Mari Perez-Ruiz, executive director of Central Valley Empowerment Alliance Services who was hosting the event.

De los tres pozos de la comunidad, dos están en producción en este momento, aunque Rodríguez no sabe cuánto durarán a través de otra sequía. El otro pozo está inactivo porque está contaminado con nitratos. A medida que el acuífero desciende este verano, incluso si los pozos no se secan, corren un mayor riesgo de contaminarse. Los proveedores de agua a menudo se ven obligados a elegir entre un pozo contaminado o sin agua corriente.

De los tres pozos de la comunidad, dos están en producción en este momento, aunque Rodríguez no sabe cuánto durarán a través de otra sequía. El otro pozo está inactivo porque está contaminado con nitratos. A medida que el acuífero desciende este verano, incluso si los pozos no se secan, corren un mayor riesgo de contaminarse. Los proveedores de agua a menudo se ven obligados a elegir entre un pozo contaminado o sin agua corriente.

The first ever Town Hall in the Central Valley results in an additional $500,000.00 to migrant literacy in Tulare County

“We must not allow ourselves to be willfully blind to the realities happening today on the Tule River,” said Arturo Rodriguez, communications/organizing director for Central Valley Empowerment Alliance. More importantly, our own conscience must be motivation enough to address the needs of the humans who call the river home.