Collective action: communities protecting nature, workers organising, people standing up to violence.
The last of four poplar trees that activists had been protecting at the US–Mexico border was uprooted on Monday for wall construction. The protests were accompanied by arrests, while the project is drawing opposition over its environmental effects.
A federal judge rejected growers’ request challenging the 2019 law that first gave farmworkers the right to unionize, while a new report describes food workers as among the most exploited.
Federal agents raided a protest camp in Arizona, arrested at least 10 people and uprooted a 200-year-old poplar that activists had been protecting to block construction of the wall on the US–Mexico border.
The collective condemned intensive working conditions and inadequate safety measures, citing deaths and injuries at the Elliniko project.
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