Q&A: Considering Farmworker Health and the Affordable Care Act
New America Media, Question & Answer, Posted: Jan 23, 2013
Federal immigration policy stands in the way of the ACA being fully implemented for hundreds of thousands of farm workers.
Categories: Health Care Reform, Immigration, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: aca, affordablecareact, californiafarmworkers, farmworkerhealth, healthcarereform, obamacare
Occupy Oakland Shuts Down the Port
New America Media, Video, Posted: Nov 03, 2011
Thousands of Occupy Oakland protesters shut down the Port of Oakland in the city's first general strike since 1946.
Categories: Occupy Protests, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Video
Native American Activists Save Sacred Burial Ground From Bulldozers
New America Media, News Feature, Posted: Aug 04, 2011
Bulldozers were primed to level the ancient burial ground at Glen Cove, Calif., until hundreds of Native Americans staged a 108-day occupation.
Categories: Environment, Indigenous, Original NAM Content, Top Stories
Tags: burial grounds, indigenous, land, native americans, occupation, ohlone, sacred, vallejo
More California School Children Qualify For Free Meals
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 04, 2011
Six counties in the Central Valley top the list of places with the highest percentage of children eligible for school meal programs, long viewed as a barometer of child poverty.
Categories: Economy, Health, Original NAM Content, Top Stories, Youth Culture
Tags: California, health, kids, nutrition, Parent, poverty, Survey
Census Workers Go Door to Door in Mission District SROs
New America Media, Video, Posted: Jun 01, 2010
The SROs in San Francisco's Mission Street are some of the most notorious -- known for price gouging and illegally evicting tenants.
Categories: Latino, Top Stories, Video
Tags: Census, Census workers, Mission District, San Francisco census, SROs
Down & Out in California's Fields -- Farm Workers Lose Jobs, Homes and Hope
New America Media, Video, Posted: May 12, 2010
Scattered groups of farm workers, unemployed and desperate, are emerging from a long cold winter spent living outdoors.
Categories: Economy, Immigration, Latino, Top Stories, Video
Tags: agriculture, california, homelessness, immigration, labor, undocumented, workers
Rights Groups to ICE: Stop Raids for Census
New America Media, News Report, Posted: Mar 12, 2010
Immigrant rights advocates are asking ICE to immediately suspend all immigration enforcement in order to decrease fear within immigrant communities and encourage their participation in the 2010 Census.
Categories: Immigration, Latino, Original NAM Content