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A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer keeps sending people out to the fields.

Tina Vásquez
A farmworker died. Another became disabled by a heat stroke. Their employer keeps sending people out to the fields.

Trump’s H-2 visa overhaul legislates indentured servitude, critics say

Maurizio Guerrero
Trump’s H-2 visa overhaul legislates indentured servitude, critics say

She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

Tina Vásquez
She managed to get a temporary farmworker visa. Once in the U.S., she endured abuse and exploitation.

New protections empower H-2A agricultural workers to organize

Tina Vásquez
color photograph of H-2A workers standing in a field wearing personal protective equipment

5 movements that mobilized you in 2023

Shabnam Banerjee-McFarland
color digital collage of teal, purple, yellow, pink, and yellow hands hold up signs reading "prism," "movements that mobilize

There’s a lot we don’t know about farmworker deaths

Tina Vásquez
color photograph of about five farmworkers and farmworker advocates wearing dark clothing and face masks standing to the righ

The anti-Indigenous use of commercial tobacco harms the planet and its people

ray levy uyeda
color photograph of the backs of four farmworkers. they are leaned forward and bracing their arms against a wall of tobacco l

‘There is slavery in the fields of North Carolina’

Tina Vásquez
color photograph of a Latino farmworker wearing jeans and a long-sleeve black shirt. he is bent over in a field of low-lying

The Farm Bill could address climate change and structural racism

ray levy uyeda
color photograph of a Latinx farmworker holding a pole that extends diagonally towards the right. small trees line the farmwo

Human trafficking or a guest worker program? H-2A’s systemic issues result in catastrophic violations

Tina Vásquez
digital collage of a farmworker with his back to the camera. he wears a straw hat and stares into the distance, where black-a