Archive for the ‘Firebaugh’ tag
Day One of the March for Water
As many readers know at this point, the California March for Water is taking place this week. My co-worker Daniel and I were in Mendota yesterday for the kick-off rally and for the first eight miles of the march, and we’ll be at the San Luis Reservoir on Friday for the concluding rally, which will [...]
‘March For Water’ to San Luis Reservoir
Paul Rodríguez led the thousands of marchers in the ‘March For Water’ calling on the California legislature to allocate more water for crops. About 2,500 to 3,000 marchers want more water to flow from the San Luis Reservoir to the crops of the Central Valley. Marilyn J. and her young classmates from Mendota Day Care [...]
Want to do your part?
For the past three weeks, I’ve been writing stories about how the country’s economic recession, combined with a three-year drought has resulted in a crisis situation for farmworker communities in the San Joaquín Valley. I saw the evidence of this crisis on Friday, when I covered a food distribution event in Firebaugh. More than 500 [...]
