The Diary of Joaquín Magón: An Organic Strawberry Recalls

August 22, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: An Organic Strawberry Recalls, Coachella, community organizer, Farm Workers, Food Justice Movement, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, organic strawberries, organic strawberry, oxnard, Salinas, strawberry, strawberry fields, The Diary of Joaquín Magón, UFW, United Farm Workers

Entry 17: An Organic Strawberry Recalls   An Organic Strawberry Recalls: I grew up around Griselda.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón: An Organizer Defined

July 30, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Coachella, community organizer, community organizers, Dolores Huerta, Farm Workers, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, jesus valenzuela, Joaquin Magon, organizer, organizers, Salinas, salinas valley, The Diary of Joaquín Magón, UFW, United Farm Workers

  The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 16: An Organizer Defined As I look at the desolate power of a voice that cannot be heard, hands that can lift a million crates, eyes that can see through lies, and smiles that bend like the crescent moon our mothers worshipped, I see that the hope is at times as thin as the space in between strawberry rows that flow through the ground like tuned guitar strings.

Rescuing Produce to Feed the Hungry

July 16, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: aurora saldivar, christy porter, Coachella, Coachella Unincorporated, coachella valley, Eastern Coachella Valley, Farm Workers, hidden harvest, hunger, ivan delgado, produce rescue, saul martinez elementary school

  By Aurora Saldivar, Coachella Unincorporated Coachella, Calif. — Inspired by the mass quantities of food Americans throw away, Christy Porter decided to tackle the hunger problem in the Coachella Valley over ten years ago.

An Open Letter to La Mujer Campesina

July 13, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: campesina, Coachella, diary of joaquin magon, Dolores Huerta, Farm Workers, female farm workers, Jesús E. Valenzuela Félix, Joaquin Magon, mujer campesina, oxnard, UFW, United Farm Workers, women's rights

The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 15: An Open Letter to La Mujer Campesina Mujer, Not a day goes by that I am not fascinated by your struggle.

College Student Harvesting Education in Grape Fields

July 6, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Alejandra Alarcon, Coachella, Eastern Coachella Valley, education, Enrique Lazcano, Farm Workers, grape fields, grape harvest, grapes, harvesting education, Mecca, picking grapes, San Diego State University, summer, summer break, summer job

By Alejandra Alarcon, Coachella Unincorporated   Mecca, Calif. – Like many college students, Enrique Lazcano is dedicating his summer to saving money for his return to school this fall.

The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 12: UFW Celebrates 50 Years of Success

May 25, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: 50th anniversary, antonio villaraigosa, barack obama, bob king, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Farm Workers, hilda solis, Joaquin Magon, maria elena salinas, Salinas, si se puede, UFW, united auto workers, United Farm Workers

The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 12: UFW Celebrates 50 Years of Success The United Farm Workers of America celebrated its 50th anniversary last week during its 19th national convention in Bakersfield, California.

Joaquín Magón: Remembering César

April 1, 2012 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Farm Workers, Joaquin Magon, UFW, United Farm Workers

    The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 11: Remembering César I never met César. The opportunity to shake his hand or hear him speak in person is not one that I had.

Grateful for Opportunity to Learn

November 22, 2011 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Coachella, College, college of the desert, Eastern Coachella Valley, Farm Workers, Ray Bondad, Thanksgiving

Grateful for Opportunity to Learn By Raymond P. Bondad Coachella Unincorporated Unlike my fellow Coachella Unincorporated reporters, I did not grow up in the eastern Coachella Valley. 

The Diary of Joaquín Magón Entry 7: Attrition

October 25, 2011 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: attrition, Coachella, community, Farm Workers, Joaquin Magon, UFW

Entry 7: Attrition [uh-trish-uh n] I read an article on numberusa.com titled “Attrition Through Enforcement is the True Middle-Ground for Enforcement,” that argued that the new anti-immigration strategy is not deportation en mass but the creation of a culture so hostile towards immigrants that they will willingly return to their country of origin.