Remembering Cesar Chavez and Raising the Next Generation of Organizers

March 31, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, Coachella Valley High School, college of the desert, Eastern Coachella Valley, farmworker rights, farmworkers, Indio, MECha, New America Media, UFW, United Farm Workers, youth journalism

AMBER AMAYA and CHRISTIAN MENDEZ / Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA — Pins from a United Farm Workers of America Convention were scattered across a long table covered in a bright red banner.

Lideres Campesinas: Fighting for Farmworker Women

March 28, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella Unincorporated, Eastern Coachella Valley, farmworker women, farmworkers, Lideres Campesinas

AMBER AMAYA / Coachella Unincorporated  Editor’s Note: For the past 27 years, Lideres Campesinas, a nonprofit organization based in Oxnard, Calif.,

Pueblo Unido CDC Joins the United Nations’ World Water Day

March 23, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: clean water, Eastern Coachella Valley, Pueblo Unido CDC, Reverse Osmosis, United Nations, World Water Day

Editor’s Note: In 1993, the United Nations designated March 22 as “World Day for Water,” a day to raise awareness about the need for clean drinking water and sustainable water development around the world.

Raising the Smoking Age: East Valley Youth Respond

March 20, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Eastern Coachella Valley, legal smoking age, SB 151, smoking, STAKE, Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement Act, tobacco, youth

By: COACHELLA UNINCORPORATED Editor’s Note: Earlier this year, California Senator Ed Hernandez introduced the Stop Tobacco Access to Kids Enforcement (STAKE) Act (Senate Bill 151), a bill that would prohibit the sale of tobacco products to people under the age of 21.

How a Bag of Flour Taught Me About Dyslexia

March 16, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Building Healthy Communities, Dyslexia, Eastern Coachella Valley, Join Coachella Unincorporated, learning disorders, reading

MARIA GARCIA / Coachella Unincorporated When I started looking around my house for a bag of flour, my mother asked me what I planed on baking.

Uncle Sam Wants DACA Recipients to Avoid Tax Scams

March 13, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: ACA, Affordable Care Act, DACA, IRS, Medi-Cal, National Immigration Law Center, taxes

New America Media, News Report, Viji Sundaram, Posted: Mar 12, 2015 Pictured above: DACA recipient Ana Alcantara, 22, was misinformed by her tax preparer and ended up paying an unnecessary penalty.

Diversifying Environmental Movement Key to Tackling Climate Change

March 10, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: climate change, environment, Green 2.0, New America Media, NGO, Sierra Club, The Raben Group, University of Michigan

By Seung Lee, New America Media Over 200 environmentalists, philanthropists, and journalists convened last week at the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco at an event hosted by Green 2.0 (an initiative of The Raben Group) and New America Media to discuss an issue that’s become increasing urgent in effectively addressing climate change – the lack of diversity in the mainstream environmental movement.