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University of California, Berkeley |
Updated
10/1/2003; 2:59:20 PM
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Wednesday, September 24, 2003 |
Farmers, UFW hail bill to help laborers - Proposal would ease immigration rules for noncitizens
San Francisco Chronicle
Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Writer
September 24, 2003
As many as half a million undocumented immigrant farmworkers in the United States -- about half of whom work in California -- could gain legal status under a bill introduced in Congress Tuesday with bipartisan support and the backing of both the agricultural industry and advocates for farmworkers.
The proposal, introduced by Rep. Chris Cannon, R-Utah, and known as the Agricultural Job Opportunity, Benefits and Security Act, breaks a log-jam between growers and farm laborers, many of whom are illegal immigrants, and places the contentious issue of immigration reform back in the political spotlight....
The current bill re-opens the debate, said PROFESSOR HARLEY SHAIKEN, DIRECTOR OF THE CENTER FOR LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES AT UC BERKELEY.
"This is an important bill," said Shaiken. "It breaks through the deep freeze that immigration has been in and puts it high on the political agenda."...
Source: UC Berkeley in the News
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"Laboring for Coverage: Unions & the Media"
A panel discussion moderated by Mother Jones Publisher Jay Harris and featuring labor organizers and media insiders.
6:00 p.m., October 9, 2003
San Francisco Public Library's Koret Auditorium, 100 Larkin Street, lower level; free and open to the public.
Amy Dean, former chief executive, South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council; founder, Working Partnerships USA
Rick DelVecchio, San Francisco Chronicle staff writer
Glen Ramiskey, Longshoreman and ILWU organizer
Danny Beagle, former editor of The Dispatcher.
Once a prominent part of any metro daily's political and economic coverage, the labor beat has all but vanished. When it is covered, labor is treated as a business story: How will a dock strike impact Christmas sales? How will the unionization of teaching assistants affect the UC system?
The "Laboring for Coverage" panelists will discuss the nature of labor coverage in today's media, assess the factors that have lead to diminishing coverage, and discuss what might be done to improve reporting on union issues. What would a jobless recovery mean to the labor movement? Will the news media follow the story and go beyond spot coverage? Bring questions to the Library on Thursday, October 9, and find out. For more information, contact the SF Main Library (415 557-4277), Richard Reynolds at Mother Jones (reynolds@motherjones.com), or visit californiahistoricalsociety.org.
This panel is part of public programming for At Work: The Art of California Labor, an exhibition of 20th century California labor art at the California Historical Society, in San Francisco. Mark Dean Johnson, editor of At Work: The Art of California Labor, the companion book published by Heyday Books, will be on hand to sign books at the 10/9 event.
For more on the At Work exhibit and book, see http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/~lcushing/addpages/AtWork.html
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Lincoln Cushing
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