Local Youth Share Their Concerns About CV Link Access Point

April 6, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, CVLink, Eastern Coachella Valley, LUPA Project, NOVA Academy, Riverside County

Editor’s Note: The following video was produced in partnership with the Land Use Planning Awareness team, a community capacity building project designed to empower communities across the eastern Coachella Valley.

City of Coachella Asks for Community’s Help in Preventing Gun and Gang Related Violence

April 3, 2015 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: City Council, Coachella, members of the community, violence

KARLA MARTINEZ / Coachella Unincorporated COACHELLA — On Friday, April 3, The City of Coachella held a press conference at city hall to ask the public for help in preventing violence in the community.

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.