From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing ... Boxing great Julio Cesar Chavez Sr cannot fathom a world where his ...

This May Day, as I march with my union, the Berkeley Federation of Teachers, I will thank them for their role in making Berkeley Unified a sanctuary school district and Berkely, a sanctuary city ...

As the dust settled from Tax Day, U.S. equities found themselves nearly approaching correction territory. Amid concerns over tariffs and other global trade frictions, the S&P 500 ® has fallen 5.6 ...

It has an important place in the labor movement too: The first significant farm labor strike — against table grape growers — took place in the Coachella Valley in 1965, led in part by Cesar Chavez ...

Standing where his grandfather was imprisoned 48 years ago at the Old Monterey County Jail, Andres Chavez spoke Tuesday about his "tata" Cesar ... relevant today. "I hope that this plaque ...

Re: ”Food banks feel pinch of USDA belt-tightening — $9.2M freeze to 2 programs is affecting local farmers, schools, working families,” Thursday news story ... of Cesar Chavez was on ...

The challenging economic circumstances have meant that in the last couple of years, many local winemakers have had to rely on international support efforts to continue harvesting, producing ...

In the story California progressives like to tell, Cesar Chavez was a champion for farmworkers and for unionization and should be revered for and spoken about purely along those lines. But of ...

This year's march focused on the Trump administration’s recent immigration policies, in the hope that the rally ... Rob Bonta shared his family’s story. “Being here is like coming home ...

Cesar Chávez helped inspire the farmworker ... Farmworkers sustain Arizona’s $30.9 billion agricultural economy by thinning and harvesting rows of leafy greens and vegetables in the Yuma ...