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"content": "\u003cp>Maria Diaz sorts green bell peppers along an outdoor conveyor belt on a farm 25 miles west of Sacramento, discarding leaves and stems quickly before peppers are swept away by a mini-roller coaster onto a tractor-trailer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz, a single parent of three, is one of roughly 800,000 farmworkers in California. Under a \u003ca href=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/news/2016/08/29/in-historic-vote-assembly-oks-hiking-overtime-pay-for-farmworkers/\" target=\"_blank\">bill recently passed by the California Legislature\u003c/a>, Diaz could collect overtime pay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Diaz says growers should pay overtime after eight hours. She adds that those extra earnings would help her cover child care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"eRmuXDk7o0X12CcunUvtKItAnEcf5gPM\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California farmworkers currently earn overtime after 10 hours a day or after working 60 hours a week. But under a bill awaiting action from Gov. 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So I think it’s pretty cruel for him to be out there doing that.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maybe, just maybe, she says, Trump might be enough to drive her to the polls.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But so far, no one has ever encouraged her to register to vote or to cast a ballot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think that makes perfect sense,” says Lindsay’s first Latina mayor, \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/a>. “If you’ve never heard why it’s important to vote, if you’ve never seen Latinos moving forward and being in office, if you’ve never seen or been exposed to that, how would one make that first move?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Latinos’ Hard-Won Political Power\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Latinos make up more than 85 percent of Lindsay’s population. Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. As mayor, she receives only a $75 stipend each month. Her day job is as a mental health clinician in the schools. She’s also working toward a Ph.D. in psychology.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla takes me on a tour of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.mcdermontfieldhouse.com/\">McDermont Field House\u003c/a>, a former citrus packinghouse that the city turned into 172,000-square-foot indoor sports complex. It’s got indoor soccer fields, the largest laser tag space in the world and an indoor wave rider where landlocked farm kids can hang ten on a man-made swell.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This was a project for Lindsay to be a fit city,” explains Padilla. “To improve engagement of youth in Lindsay, to have a place where they can come and not get themselves into trouble.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=”TP90BZhO4e3Q1CC3ok1y0YzLetfcYjS7″]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But trouble came nonetheless. Not from kids, but through alleged financial mismanagement by previous city leaders that has left Lindsay’s current administration trying to figure out to pay for the sports complex.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says she’s trying to bring more transparency to the city and to get residents engaged. And that means all residents, including undocumented farmworkers who can’t vote. And their children, who can, but maybe don’t.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Amy Huerta. The mayor has a message for her:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Amy, I get the sense that you’re thinking that it might not make a difference whether you would vote,” Padilla says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’d like to say to you that it does make a difference because I remember from Lindsay City Council, people won by one vote. That (one vote) could be you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>California Counts is a collaboration of KPBS, KPCC, KQED and Capital Public Radio to report on the 2016 election. 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After she got her GED, she picked fruit in the citrus orchards, too, climbing on top of the tall ladders and braving the thorny branches to pick lemons.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905494\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg\" alt=\"Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she's too busy as a working single mom to think about voting.\" width=\"800\" height=\"827\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905494\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-800x827.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-400x414.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-1180x1220.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-960x993.jpg 960w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/CassandraBaca-32x32.jpg 32w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cassandra Baca, 22, and her baby daughter, Amoriee. Baca says she’s too busy as a working single mom to think about voting. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>As for working in the fields?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was hard, but it was a lesson,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Was the lesson that she didn’t want to do it?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Yeah, to do something better than working in the fields. It was a good experience to know you can work hard for your money, and that’s not an easy job,” she says. “A lot of Americans just sit around on their desk while immigrants are actually out here, from the dawn to when the sun goes down, working in the fields.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fact, the only thing that’s caught her attention this election season has been Donald Trump’s message about immigrants.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Some of the stuff he’s been saying about Mexicans,” says Baca. “If it wasn’t for the immigrants, we wouldn’t have any fruit or vegetables. 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Padilla is in her 50s, and she says when she was growing up here, the town was mostly white, and controlled by white farmers.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignright\">‘If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement.’\u003ccite>Mayor Ramona Villarreal-Padilla\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>She says it’s taken a long time for Latinos to achieve a balance of power in local government. Now three out of the five members on the \u003ca href=\"http://www.lindsay.ca.us/citygov/council/\">City Council\u003c/a> are Latino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But she worries that the activism that helped sweep Latinos like her into power in Lindsay could be diminished by a generation of would-be voters who are less politically engaged.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If everybody thought voting wasn’t important, we wouldn’t be moving forward in the Latino movement, the Latino caucus, or anywhere you see that Latinos make a difference, because we are the majority,” says Padilla.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her father marched with Cesar Chavez, and farmworkers were always stopping by their house for advice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Even though my dad wasn’t on city council or anything, he was an activist for the people’s voice,” explains Padilla. “I think that’s the ethic and the legacy that I’m taking over from my father, still being a voice for here in the town where I was raised.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla says her dad, who had only a second-grade education, taught his 14 children the importance of voting.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I didn’t think it really mattered. But my dad, if he left anything for any of us to know, he says, ‘If you don’t vote, or don’t register to vote, then the government will take your voice away.'”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10905499\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state's citrus farming belt in Tulare County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"503\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10905499\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-400x251.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-1180x742.jpg 1180w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2016/03/DowntownLindsay-960x604.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lindsay, California is a town of about 12,000 in the heart of the state’s citrus farming belt in Tulare County. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Like a lot of mayors from small towns and mid-size cities, Padilla is hardly a fat-cat politician. 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"content": "\u003cp>I first met Zenaida Ventura 11 years ago, when she was just a teenager. She was wielding giant clippers, pruning gnarled grapevines in a field south of Fresno one cold morning. She was working alongside her father, Rufino, and I showed up with my microphone to ask them how they protected themselves from pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Rufino Ventura on protecting farmworkers from pesticide, 2004\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229813009\" params=\"color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"20\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Venturas were recent immigrants then, who spoke Mixteco, an indigenous language from Oaxaca. The term “indigenous” means their language and culture predate the Spanish conquest of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ran into Zenaida again a few weeks ago. Now she’s 29 and trilingual -- she speaks Spanish, Mixteco and English. She has become a community leader, and is helping to conduct a unique survey of other \u003ca href=\"http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/index.shtml\">indigenous farmworkers\u003c/a> through the \u003ca href=\"http://centrobinacional.org/en/about-us/\">Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities\u003c/a> (CBDIO), a nonprofit that works in both Mexico and the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s standing at a booth at a farmers market in Madera County, home to one of the highest concentrations of Mexican indigenous immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804366\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing surveys, especially to the farmworkers that are indigenous from Oaxaca, or Guerrero, Pueblo,” she explains. “Have they worked in the fields? Have they been affected because of the drought?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman pushing her kids in a stroller approaches Ventura’s booth and agrees to answer the survey questions. She says her husband went to Washington state this year for the first time to pick blueberries. It was just too hard to piece together enough hours of work in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tried to quantify the economic impact of the drought on workers. One recent \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Final_Drought%20Report_08182015_Full_Report_WithAppendices.pdf\">UC Davis forecast\u003c/a>, for example, estimates more than 10,000 California farmworkers will have lost their jobs this year due to farms having less water. What those studies don’t show is that indigenous farmworkers are more likely to be undocumented and among the first to lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727448\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. She says with the drought, this year has been the hardest to make ends in the fields since she came to the U.S. a dozen years ago. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Many people do not realize, but there is a pecking order, a hierarchy, in the labor force in agriculture,” says Professor \u003ca href=\"http://www.labor.ucla.edu/gaspar-rivera-salgado/\">Gaspar Rivera-Salgado\u003c/a>. He studies Mexican migration at the UCLA Labor Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Not only hierarchy in terms of when you migrated,\" he explains, \"but also this ethnic hierarchy, because these indigenous migrants that come from Mexico also tend to be very discriminated against, not only in Mexico, but also here in the United States.\u003cstrong>”\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re less likely to get more stable jobs as tractor drivers or supervisors. Those jobs usually go to mestizos, Mexicans who have mixed Spanish and indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera-Salgado says this new grass-roots survey of more than 350 farmworkers -- a collaboration between several nonprofit organizations in Fresno and Madera County, including CBDIO, \u003ca href=\"http://centralcallegal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> CRLA Foundation\u003c/a> -- is taking an important pulse of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been really picking up a lot of details about how tough it has been for families to make ends meet,\" says Rivera-Salgado. \"A lot of these families, they’re really at a crossroads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, 92 percent of the indigenous farmworkers surveyed in this project say they’ve had less work or no work because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Maura Lukas, a Mixteca woman who lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. She’s chopping some onions she got at a food bank on a table set up in a patch of dirt in front of her apartment, next to where she hangs laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"5GjcnjOHzCAbIoB2R0KlLWzNmzzC9R2i\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rent is $600, and the truth is, we could only pay half, $300,” she tells me. “Our electricity was $119. I have to pay that in payments, too. There just isn’t money for everything. We don’t have enough to eat. That’s what we really need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas says this year has been the hardest since they came to the U.S. from Oaxaca. They’ve scrambled to get enough hours picking grapes, raisins and cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s trying to make meals stretch as best she can, especially as winter approaches. Normally, that’s the time when farmworkers try to live off the savings they’ve scraped together from the harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, she says, there aren’t any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zenaida Ventura says the workers she’s surveyed who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have jobs say working conditions have gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because of the lack of jobs, you have to do whatever it takes to stay there, no matter if they don’t give you shade or water or your rights. Your working rights. \"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ventura isn’t surprised that 81 percent of those surveyed have no knowledge of any programs to help farmworkers affected by the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But even if they knew about them, Ventura says, they’re not necessarily eligible. Some \u003ca href=\"http://fresnocitycollege.edu/index.aspx?page=3158\">drought-related job retraining programs \u003c/a>for farmworkers require a Social Security number, GED or high school diploma. Farmworkers can’t get unemployment benefits if they’re undocumented.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The documented farmworkers, they can go and apply for unemployment,” says Ventura, “or they can look for another job, if there’s an opening for a restaurant to do dishes. But for the undocumented farmworker, there’s nothing. Nothing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The nonprofit groups conducting the surveys plan to present their results at a legislative briefing in Sacramento next week.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>I first met Zenaida Ventura 11 years ago, when she was just a teenager. She was wielding giant clippers, pruning gnarled grapevines in a field south of Fresno one cold morning. She was working alongside her father, Rufino, and I showed up with my microphone to ask them how they protected themselves from pesticides.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright\">\n\u003ch2>Rufino Ventura on protecting farmworkers from pesticide, 2004\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='20'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229813009&visual=true&color=ff5500&inverse=false&auto_play=false&show_user=true'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229813009'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The Venturas were recent immigrants then, who spoke Mixteco, an indigenous language from Oaxaca. The term “indigenous” means their language and culture predate the Spanish conquest of Mexico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I ran into Zenaida again a few weeks ago. Now she’s 29 and trilingual -- she speaks Spanish, Mixteco and English. She has become a community leader, and is helping to conduct a unique survey of other \u003ca href=\"http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/index.shtml\">indigenous farmworkers\u003c/a> through the \u003ca href=\"http://centrobinacional.org/en/about-us/\">Binational Center for the Development of Oaxacan Indigenous Communities\u003c/a> (CBDIO), a nonprofit that works in both Mexico and the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s standing at a booth at a farmers market in Madera County, home to one of the highest concentrations of Mexican indigenous immigrants in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804366&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/229804366'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’re doing surveys, especially to the farmworkers that are indigenous from Oaxaca, or Guerrero, Pueblo,” she explains. “Have they worked in the fields? Have they been affected because of the drought?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A woman pushing her kids in a stroller approaches Ventura’s booth and agrees to answer the survey questions. She says her husband went to Washington state this year for the first time to pick blueberries. It was just too hard to piece together enough hours of work in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Studies have tried to quantify the economic impact of the drought on workers. One recent \u003ca href=\"https://watershed.ucdavis.edu/files/biblio/Final_Drought%20Report_08182015_Full_Report_WithAppendices.pdf\">UC Davis forecast\u003c/a>, for example, estimates more than 10,000 California farmworkers will have lost their jobs this year due to farms having less water. What those studies don’t show is that indigenous farmworkers are more likely to be undocumented and among the first to lose their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727448\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17133_Dona-Maura-2.JPG-qut1-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas is Mixteca, part of an indigenous group from Oaxaca, in southern Mexico. 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Those jobs usually go to mestizos, Mexicans who have mixed Spanish and indigenous heritage.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rivera-Salgado says this new grass-roots survey of more than 350 farmworkers -- a collaboration between several nonprofit organizations in Fresno and Madera County, including CBDIO, \u003ca href=\"http://centralcallegal.org\" target=\"_blank\">Central California Legal Services\u003c/a> and the\u003ca href=\"http://www.crlaf.org/\" target=\"_blank\"> CRLA Foundation\u003c/a> -- is taking an important pulse of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’ve been really picking up a lot of details about how tough it has been for families to make ends meet,\" says Rivera-Salgado. \"A lot of these families, they’re really at a crossroads.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727449\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727449\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17136_Dona-Maura-w-garden-3.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maura Lukas and her husband have only been able to pay the landlord half the rent for months, and are struggling to make meals stretch to feed her family. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In fact, 92 percent of the indigenous farmworkers surveyed in this project say they’ve had less work or no work because of the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Like Maura Lukas, a Mixteca woman who lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. She’s chopping some onions she got at a food bank on a table set up in a patch of dirt in front of her apartment, next to where she hangs laundry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our rent is $600, and the truth is, we could only pay half, $300,” she tells me. “Our electricity was $119. I have to pay that in payments, too. There just isn’t money for everything. We don’t have enough to eat. That’s what we really need.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lukas says this year has been the hardest since they came to the U.S. from Oaxaca. They’ve scrambled to get enough hours picking grapes, raisins and cherries.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She says she’s trying to make meals stretch as best she can, especially as winter approaches. Normally, that’s the time when farmworkers try to live off the savings they’ve scraped together from the harvest season.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this year, she says, there aren’t any savings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zenaida Ventura says the workers she’s surveyed who \u003cem>do\u003c/em> have jobs say working conditions have gotten worse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10727450\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10727450\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/10/RS17137_Dona-Mauras-apartment-bldg-1.JPG-qut-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Maura Lukas lives in a cramped two-bedroom apartment with her husband and four children near downtown Fresno. \u003ccite>(Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Because of the lack of jobs, you have to do whatever it takes to stay there, no matter if they don’t give you shade or water or your rights. 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"content": "\u003cp>The next time you bring home a case of those little 16-ounce bottles of water, imagine living out of them: pouring a little out every time you wash a dish and dumping them into buckets to shower or flush the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Maria Medina’s family has done since their well went dry 18 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use just a little bit of water,” Medina explains in Spanish as she trickles water over a dirty plate. “It takes about half of one of these bottles to wash a single dish. I have to use enough water to get the soap off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina, her husband and two children live in Okieville, a cluster of ramshackle houses and trailer homes in rural Tulare County. Originally settled by Dust Bowl migrants, the unincorporated community is now home to mostly Mexican farmworkers and their families. Because of the drought, many of them have seen their wells slow to a trickle -- or go completely dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A year and a half and no water. It’s really hard,” sighs Medina. “Okieville used to be such a pretty place. I had grass. Now I just have a poor dog chained up to a dead tree. The situation just feels so impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686936\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10686936 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter Guadalupe outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter, Guadalupe, outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her 18-year-old son, Ricardo, fan themselves in their sweltering kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t even turn on the swamp cooler,” he says. “No water, no cooler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling you,” his mother jokes. “Sometimes the only way we get a bath is from our own sweat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year and a half, Gov. Jerry Brown has set aside $587 million for immediate emergency drought relief. But a third of that money still hasn’t been spent. And the Medinas have yet to see any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is it?” Medina asks, throwing her hands up in the air. “We’re here. And there isn’t any help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Communications Gap\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that some families, like the Medinas, haven’t reported their dry wells to the county because they don’t know that help is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent open house for a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cset.org/droughtresources\">drought assistance center in nearby Porterville\u003c/a>, county officials and nonprofits tried to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224884468\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your well goes dry, you want to sign up immediately for the bottled drinking water program,” advised Tulare County’s Melissa Withnell, “because you want to make sure you have water to drink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Withnell says Tulare County is \u003ca href=\"http://tularecounty.ca.gov/emergencies/index.cfm/drought/household-bottled-water-program/\">delivering bottles of water\u003c/a> to about 1,200 homes where wells have gone dry. \u003ca href=\"http://www.selfhelpenterprises.org/programs/community-development/drought-response/\">Another program\u003c/a> installs tanks of water at homes so people can shower and flush toilets. But the Medinas, who don’t own their home, don’t qualify for a tank because, so far, state funds can’t be used to pay for upgrades to rental properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as falling through the cracks, the people that might be are renters who live in homes that are without water,” explains Withnell. “Unfortunately, the county's not in a position where we can do any type of enforcement toward landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a waiting list for homeowners, too. So far, the county has installed more than 360 tanks, although wells for more than 1,700 homes have gone dry. And yet Tulare County’s program is the most aggressive in the region. Nearby Fresno County has installed just eight household water tanks. The state estimates close to 150 homes in the county are without water, but there could be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flying Blind\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any way of keeping track of all the wells that have gone dry,” says Wayne Fox, with the Fresno County Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago..jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10686942\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of dry wells in the county, says Fox, they rely on state data combined with a list of county residents who’ve applied for permits to drill new wells on their property. But only homeowners who can potentially foot the bill for a new well -- typically thousands of dollars -- will be on that list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties don’t collect data on private wells serving individual homes. Yet it’s the counties that have to work out the best ways to provide relief, says Eric Lamoureux with the state Office of Emergency Services. His agency is coordinating drought relief with individual counties -- the state estimates that \u003ca href=\"http://ca.gov/drought/pdf/Weekly-Drought-Update.pdf\">some 12,000 household wells have gone dry in the drought\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never dealt with a drought response of this magnitude in California,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has distributed nearly 900,000 food boxes to food banks in drought-stricken communities and has distributed over $400,000 to help low-income families pay their water bills. That's an unprecedented level of assistance, according to Lamoureux, who acknowledges that water tank programs were slow to ramp up. Local agencies had to figure out how to build and install them, and the state had to find the water to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tank program was something we had never done in the history of California,” he says, “so understanding what the logistical challenges were going to be on the front end was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Failing Grade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Omar Carillo, an advocate with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, headquartered in Tulare County, says the state hasn’t worked fast enough for families like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not an appropriate response,” he says. “If you have an individual home and they haven’t had water for 18 months, that is a big problem. That is a huge problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10686934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\" alt=\"Medina’s daughter Guadalupe prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg 4272w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medina’s daughter, Guadalupe, prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He blames the state’s alphabet soup of agencies working to address the drought with different pockets of money, and questions whether the state’s emergency services office, which traditionally handles wildfires and earthquakes, is the most qualified agency to coordinate the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of Emergency Services is more set up to address maybe more short-term needs,” he says, “but ultimately what we’re looking at here is a multiyear drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funds are earmarked for a range of emergency relief efforts, from drinking water to public showers to food boxes for farmworkers. State officials acknowledge the slow pace of spending, but point out that the vast majority of the nearly $4 billion in total drought funding is meant for longer-term construction projects, such as connecting homes to existing city water systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Maria Medina says she will stay in her house without water because she has no choice. The drought has cost her husband his longtime job in the cotton fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve looked,” Medina says. “We can’t move because another house is more expensive. And we can’t pay more; there’s no work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina’s son, Ricardo, can’t even make money mowing lawns for his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much I used to cut every yard out here; now, no water, no yard,” he shrugs. “I’m going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has allocated about $6 million to help families relocate. But so far, none of that money has made its way to people like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, a Bay Area nonprofit has launched a new online fundraising effort. Through the \u003ca href=\"http://www.droughtrelief.org/\">Drought Relief Fund\u003c/a>, individual Californians can donate to help fill in the gaps for families that have had no help from the state or county government.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>The next time you bring home a case of those little 16-ounce bottles of water, imagine living out of them: pouring a little out every time you wash a dish and dumping them into buckets to shower or flush the toilet.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s what Maria Medina’s family has done since their well went dry 18 months ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I use just a little bit of water,” Medina explains in Spanish as she trickles water over a dirty plate. “It takes about half of one of these bottles to wash a single dish. I have to use enough water to get the soap off.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina, her husband and two children live in Okieville, a cluster of ramshackle houses and trailer homes in rural Tulare County. Originally settled by Dust Bowl migrants, the unincorporated community is now home to mostly Mexican farmworkers and their families. Because of the drought, many of them have seen their wells slow to a trickle -- or go completely dry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A year and a half and no water. It’s really hard,” sighs Medina. “Okieville used to be such a pretty place. I had grass. Now I just have a poor dog chained up to a dead tree. The situation just feels so impossible.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686936\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-10686936 size-medium\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter Guadalupe outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9119-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maria Medina, right, and her 20-year-old daughter, Guadalupe, outside their Okieville house, where they haven’t had running water for 18 months. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She and her 18-year-old son, Ricardo, fan themselves in their sweltering kitchen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We can’t even turn on the swamp cooler,” he says. “No water, no cooler.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m telling you,” his mother jokes. “Sometimes the only way we get a bath is from our own sweat.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last year and a half, Gov. Jerry Brown has set aside $587 million for immediate emergency drought relief. But a third of that money still hasn’t been spent. And the Medinas have yet to see any of it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Where is it?” Medina asks, throwing her hands up in the air. “We’re here. And there isn’t any help.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Communications Gap\u003cbr>\n\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that some families, like the Medinas, haven’t reported their dry wells to the county because they don’t know that help is available.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent open house for a new \u003ca href=\"http://www.cset.org/droughtresources\">drought assistance center in nearby Porterville\u003c/a>, county officials and nonprofits tried to get the word out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224884468&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/224884468'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If your well goes dry, you want to sign up immediately for the bottled drinking water program,” advised Tulare County’s Melissa Withnell, “because you want to make sure you have water to drink.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Withnell says Tulare County is \u003ca href=\"http://tularecounty.ca.gov/emergencies/index.cfm/drought/household-bottled-water-program/\">delivering bottles of water\u003c/a> to about 1,200 homes where wells have gone dry. \u003ca href=\"http://www.selfhelpenterprises.org/programs/community-development/drought-response/\">Another program\u003c/a> installs tanks of water at homes so people can shower and flush toilets. But the Medinas, who don’t own their home, don’t qualify for a tank because, so far, state funds can’t be used to pay for upgrades to rental properties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“As far as falling through the cracks, the people that might be are renters who live in homes that are without water,” explains Withnell. “Unfortunately, the county's not in a position where we can do any type of enforcement toward landlords.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a waiting list for homeowners, too. So far, the county has installed more than 360 tanks, although wells for more than 1,700 homes have gone dry. And yet Tulare County’s program is the most aggressive in the region. Nearby Fresno County has installed just eight household water tanks. The state estimates close to 150 homes in the county are without water, but there could be more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Flying Blind\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We don’t have any way of keeping track of all the wells that have gone dry,” says Wayne Fox, with the Fresno County Health Department.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686942\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago..jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10686942\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Alvaro-Alvarez-in-front-of-the-tank-installed-after-his-well-went-dry-a-year-and-a-half-ago.-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alvaro Alvarez and his family had been out of water for almost 18 months before a county-sponsored nonprofit installed a water tank at their Porterville home last month. Neighbors shared water with them for months until their well ran dry, too. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>To estimate the number of dry wells in the county, says Fox, they rely on state data combined with a list of county residents who’ve applied for permits to drill new wells on their property. But only homeowners who can potentially foot the bill for a new well -- typically thousands of dollars -- will be on that list.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many counties don’t collect data on private wells serving individual homes. Yet it’s the counties that have to work out the best ways to provide relief, says Eric Lamoureux with the state Office of Emergency Services. His agency is coordinating drought relief with individual counties -- the state estimates that \u003ca href=\"http://ca.gov/drought/pdf/Weekly-Drought-Update.pdf\">some 12,000 household wells have gone dry in the drought\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve never dealt with a drought response of this magnitude in California,” he explains.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, the state has distributed nearly 900,000 food boxes to food banks in drought-stricken communities and has distributed over $400,000 to help low-income families pay their water bills. That's an unprecedented level of assistance, according to Lamoureux, who acknowledges that water tank programs were slow to ramp up. Local agencies had to figure out how to build and install them, and the state had to find the water to fill them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This tank program was something we had never done in the history of California,” he says, “so understanding what the logistical challenges were going to be on the front end was very difficult.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Failing Grade\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Omar Carillo, an advocate with the nonprofit \u003ca href=\"http://www.communitywatercenter.org/\">Community Water Center\u003c/a>, headquartered in Tulare County, says the state hasn’t worked fast enough for families like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That is not an appropriate response,” he says. “If you have an individual home and they haven’t had water for 18 months, that is a big problem. That is a huge problem.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10686934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 4272px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-10686934\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg\" alt=\"Medina’s daughter Guadalupe prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \" width=\"4272\" height=\"2848\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108.jpg 4272w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-400x267.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-800x533.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1440x960.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1920x1280.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-1180x787.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/IMG_9108-960x640.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4272px) 100vw, 4272px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Medina’s daughter, Guadalupe, prepares for dinner, pouring bottles of water into a pot to make macaroni and cheese. \u003ccite>(Kerry Klein/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>He blames the state’s alphabet soup of agencies working to address the drought with different pockets of money, and questions whether the state’s emergency services office, which traditionally handles wildfires and earthquakes, is the most qualified agency to coordinate the efforts.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The Office of Emergency Services is more set up to address maybe more short-term needs,” he says, “but ultimately what we’re looking at here is a multiyear drought.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Funds are earmarked for a range of emergency relief efforts, from drinking water to public showers to food boxes for farmworkers. State officials acknowledge the slow pace of spending, but point out that the vast majority of the nearly $4 billion in total drought funding is meant for longer-term construction projects, such as connecting homes to existing city water systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the meantime, Maria Medina says she will stay in her house without water because she has no choice. The drought has cost her husband his longtime job in the cotton fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We’ve looked,” Medina says. “We can’t move because another house is more expensive. And we can’t pay more; there’s no work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Medina’s son, Ricardo, can’t even make money mowing lawns for his neighbors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pretty much I used to cut every yard out here; now, no water, no yard,” he shrugs. “I’m going down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state has allocated about $6 million to help families relocate. But so far, none of that money has made its way to people like the Medinas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"disqusTitle": "The Forgotten Filipino-Americans Who Led the ’65 Delano Grape Strike",
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"content": "\u003cp>Today, grapes in the grocery store don’t seem that controversial. But 50 years ago, a historic strike in California’s Central Valley vineyards set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. Some people in the town of Delano and across the state are determined to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[soundcloud url=\"https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205\" params=\"color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" iframe=\"true\" /]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be easy to drive through Delano and have no idea that history was made here. It’s a dry, hot Central Valley town, and places of historical importance -- such as a retirement home, a church, and acres and acres of farmland -- look ordinary on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many people, though, these places are sacred ground: the vineyards, picketed for years by farmworkers and their supporters; the high school auditorium where Sen. Bobby Kennedy spoke; a white stucco building on the edge of town where Cesar Chavez carried out a hunger strike and became a national symbol of farmworker rights; and a utilitarian community center known as Filipino Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To resident Roger Gadiano, Filipino Hall is a shrine. “This is our Mecca,” he says. “I guess it’s our Selma. This is it!” Because in this building, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t know who in the heck walked in here … but I do.” Gadiano says. “It tickles me. We’re a part of a big history. We took a step that was bold and that no one else would take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those voting -- and striking -- were elders called Manongs, the mostly migrant, bachelor Filipino farmworkers whose names and stories few people know, even in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1440x975.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Philippine Weekend, a cultural celebration and kind of family reunion, a group of young women say they never learned about the farmworker movement in school. Anhelica Perez says her Latina grandmother and other relatives actually participated in the strike and ensuing boycott, “So it was active family history, but it was not taught -- or talked about -- at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she’s in her late 20s, Melanie Retuda says she learned about the Filipino origins of the strike only last year. “I’d known of Cesar Chavez and Hispanics being involved,” she says. “Being Filipino, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ Filipinos actually made an impact in the process. It makes me proud that they were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez is outraged that this history is not known because the actions those Filipinos took improved her family’s lives. “I mean, I’m extremely proud that Cesar Chavez was the right face at the right time, but a lot of the dirty work was already done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-800x1010.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-400x505.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Filipino farmworkers and labor organizers had prepared for the Delano Grape Strike for decades. Dawn Mabalon, professor of history at San Francisco State University, says they’d been fighting for better working conditions since the 1920s, and had a key win in 1939 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five to seven thousand Filipinos in asparagus fields all walk out at the height of the season, on Good Friday,” threatening the availability of asparagus on Easter dinner tables, Mabalon says. “Growers capitulated in a day. So Filipinos know that if they all walk out, in absolute unity, with absolute militancy, they’re probably going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the ’60s, though, conditions for farmworkers across the state were still dismal. Mabalon describes conducting oral histories in which she heard stories of field crews sharing just one tin cup of water. “You still had no bathrooms in the fields, poor wages, no workers' comp, no unemployment, no Social Security,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the summer of 1965, when growers cut the pay of Filipinos picking grapes in the Coachella Valley, they were prepared to act. These workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, were “led by this really charismatic, seasoned, militant labor leader, Larry Itliong,” Mabalon says, “and they make a stand against the farmers in Coachella and they win: $1.40 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[contextly_sidebar id=\"Xotg4AWAehe1ZfO0noGLK1OdPcrHAvPQ\"]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they migrated north to Delano, organizers like Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco urged local families to join them in asking for improved conditions (the same raise to $1.40 an hour). Growers balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired journalist Alex Edillor was only 11 years old, but he remembers his farmworker parents coming back from heated meetings, and talking about a potential strike over the kitchen table. “There were people with mortgages, with families to feed, considering a strike action,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667730\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Sept. 7, workers gathered at Filipino Hall and voted to strike. The next morning they went out to the vineyards, as they always did, but made a dramatic stand. Edillor remembers: \u003ci>“\u003c/i>It was the first day of school, I was all prepared to come home, watch a little TV,” but when he came home, his parents were there. Like the Manongs, and other locals, they’d worked a full day, then left the harvested crop on the ground and walked off the vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano, who had family members join the strike, adds, “Just imagine over 1,500 old Filipino men at different labor camps, different vineyards, all walking out at same time. How awesome is that!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Gadiano’s first day of his senior year of high school. He remembers walking into his Spanish II class, and being approached by a grower’s son. “‘Hey Rog, your Uncle Max just went on strike.’ I went, ‘He did? They just want a raise.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers got kicked out of labor camps. Gadiano says, “The farmers were going to use the Mexicans to break the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Chavez and others, like Dolores Huerta and Gil Padilla, had been organizing Mexican workers around Delano for a few years through the National Farm Workers Association, but a strike wasn’t in their immediate plans. So Larry Itliong appealed to Chavez, and two weeks later, the much more sizable group of Mexican workers joined the strike. Soon, the two unions came together to form what would become United Farm Workers, with Larry Itliong assistant director under Chavez. It was a historic interracial union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These two groups that had been kept apart for so long, coming together, that is the power in the Delano Grape Strike,” says historian Mabalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexicans and Filipinos gathered at Filipino Hall, eating fishhead soup and preparing strikers’ meals, organizing, even sleeping there. Gadiano passed by every day on his way to high school and saw the steps filled with picket signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d eat breakfast and pick up their signs and go to a field location and picket,” he remembers. It took five years of striking, plus an international boycott of table grapes, before growers signed contracts with the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years weren’t easy on strikers, families or Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano shows me around the grocery store his dad once owned. As the only supplier of Filipino goods in the region, it was popular with townspeople and labor camps, where the family delivered fish, meat and other goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A common order was a 100-pound sack of Calrose rice, sticky rice,” Gadiano remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1440x1216.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1180x996.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-960x811.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His dad also helped out families of striking workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were giving them credit to pay us back when work started. We carried hundreds of families. We were stuck in the middle because we had the store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families were like Alex Edillor’s: his parents walked off the fields initially, but after a few weeks they felt they had to return to work. He remembers the tension, even in places like church.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was kind of split down the middle of the church: This is where the strikers went, this is where the people who went back to work went,” he says. “There was a strange division among us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, though, people who sat on either side of the aisle join in wanting to share this history. “We came back together because, looking back on it, we were very proud of that moment,\" Edillor says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mabalon says, growing up not knowing this history, she and her peers feel the hurt of a generation. “It’s our story, and it demands our love and attention and respect, and we need to tell this story.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667732\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667732\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-800x585.jpg\" alt=\"Angelica Perez, Melanie Retuda and Larissa Portillo (L-R) in front of a recently-completed mural in downtown Delano featuring Philip Vera Cruz, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong.\" width=\"800\" height=\"585\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-800x585.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-400x292.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-1440x1052.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-1180x862.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/GirlsMural-960x702.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anhelica Perez, Melanie Retuda and Larissa Portillo (L-R) in front of a recently completed mural in downtown Delano featuring Philip Vera Cruz, Cesar Chavez and Larry Itliong. \u003ccite>(Lisa Morehouse/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s happening more and more. Mabalon is writing a biography of Larry Itliong; Edillor and Gadiano have organized a \u003ca href=\"https://roundtown.com/event/10151147/Bold-Step-Celebration-the-50th-Anniversary-the-Delano-Grape-Strike-Delano-CA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">celebration\u003c/a> in Delano over Labor Day weekend; and a \u003ca href=\"http://www.delanomanongs.com/\">documentary\u003c/a> on the Manongs came out last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recently, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed two pieces of legislation, one recognizing \u003ca href=\"http://www.capradio.org/articles/2015/07/06/california-to-recognize-filipino-american-larry-itliong-on-oct-25\">Larry Itliong Day\u003c/a>, the other \u003ca href=\"http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB123\">requiring public schools\u003c/a> to teach this history. Rob Bonta, the state’s only Filipino-American Assembly member, introduced those bills. Although his parents were farm labor organizers and he grew up in UFW headquarters, he says, “When I cracked the history books in high school and college, I didn’t see those stories being told.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Delano, Gadiano ends a tour of the town at one last, ordinary place: Larry Itliong’s simple gravesite. The headstone says only, “Beloved husband and father.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He gave our people some dignity,\" Gadiano says. \"He gave his guts.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was reported for \u003ca href=\"http://www.californiafoodways.com/\">California Foodways,\u003c/a> in collaboration with the\u003ca href=\"http://thefern.org/\"> Food & Environment Reporting Network\u003c/a>, a nonprofit, investigative news organization.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Music by Susie Ibarra and Los Lobos.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Today, grapes in the grocery store don’t seem that controversial. But 50 years ago, a historic strike in California’s Central Valley vineyards set in motion the most significant campaign in modern labor history: the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> and Cesar Chavez are widely known for running the Delano Grape Strike and prompting an international boycott of table grapes, the origins of that movement are rarely discussed. Some people in the town of Delano and across the state are determined to change that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cdiv class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__shortcodes__shortcodeWrapper'>\n \u003ciframe width='100%' height='166'\n scrolling='no' frameborder='no'\n src='https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205&visual=true&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false'\n title='https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/222406205'>\n \u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/div>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It would be easy to drive through Delano and have no idea that history was made here. It’s a dry, hot Central Valley town, and places of historical importance -- such as a retirement home, a church, and acres and acres of farmland -- look ordinary on the outside.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667541\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667541\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez.\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-800x532.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-400x266.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1440x958.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/StrikingWorkersPicket-960x639.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Filipino farmworkers were the first to walk out of vineyards in 1965, prompting the Delano Grape Strike and, ultimately, the formation of the United Farm Workers along with Mexican farmworkers led by Cesar Chavez. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many people, though, these places are sacred ground: the vineyards, picketed for years by farmworkers and their supporters; the high school auditorium where Sen. Bobby Kennedy spoke; a white stucco building on the edge of town where Cesar Chavez carried out a hunger strike and became a national symbol of farmworker rights; and a utilitarian community center known as Filipino Hall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To resident Roger Gadiano, Filipino Hall is a shrine. “This is our Mecca,” he says. “I guess it’s our Selma. This is it!” Because in this building, on the night of Sept. 7, 1965, farmworkers voted to go on strike the next day. They were almost all Filipino.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“People don’t know who in the heck walked in here … but I do.” Gadiano says. “It tickles me. We’re a part of a big history. We took a step that was bold and that no one else would take.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most of those voting -- and striking -- were elders called Manongs, the mostly migrant, bachelor Filipino farmworkers whose names and stories few people know, even in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667678\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667678\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers.\" width=\"800\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-800x542.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-400x271.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1440x975.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-1180x799.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/CommunityCenter-960x650.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alex Edillor was an elementary school student when the 1965 grape strike started. The Filipino Hall became the center of activity as Mexicans joined forces with Filipino grape pickers. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>During Philippine Weekend, a cultural celebration and kind of family reunion, a group of young women say they never learned about the farmworker movement in school. Anhelica Perez says her Latina grandmother and other relatives actually participated in the strike and ensuing boycott, “So it was active family history, but it was not taught -- or talked about -- at all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even though she’s in her late 20s, Melanie Retuda says she learned about the Filipino origins of the strike only last year. “I’d known of Cesar Chavez and Hispanics being involved,” she says. “Being Filipino, it’s like, ‘Wow.’ Filipinos actually made an impact in the process. It makes me proud that they were involved.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perez is outraged that this history is not known because the actions those Filipinos took improved her family’s lives. “I mean, I’m extremely proud that Cesar Chavez was the right face at the right time, but a lot of the dirty work was already done.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667728\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667728\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-800x1010.jpg\" alt=\"Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1010\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/Larry800-400x505.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Larry Itliong, key organizer of the Filipino farmworkers who started the Delano Grape Strike. Legislation was recently passed to recognize Larry Itliong Day in California. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In many ways, Filipino farmworkers and labor organizers had prepared for the Delano Grape Strike for decades. Dawn Mabalon, professor of history at San Francisco State University, says they’d been fighting for better working conditions since the 1920s, and had a key win in 1939 in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Five to seven thousand Filipinos in asparagus fields all walk out at the height of the season, on Good Friday,” threatening the availability of asparagus on Easter dinner tables, Mabalon says. “Growers capitulated in a day. So Filipinos know that if they all walk out, in absolute unity, with absolute militancy, they’re probably going to win.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By the ’60s, though, conditions for farmworkers across the state were still dismal. Mabalon describes conducting oral histories in which she heard stories of field crews sharing just one tin cup of water. “You still had no bathrooms in the fields, poor wages, no workers' comp, no unemployment, no Social Security,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, in the summer of 1965, when growers cut the pay of Filipinos picking grapes in the Coachella Valley, they were prepared to act. These workers, members of the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee, were “led by this really charismatic, seasoned, militant labor leader, Larry Itliong,” Mabalon says, “and they make a stand against the farmers in Coachella and they win: $1.40 an hour.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When they migrated north to Delano, organizers like Itliong, Philip Vera Cruz and Pete Velasco urged local families to join them in asking for improved conditions (the same raise to $1.40 an hour). Growers balked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Retired journalist Alex Edillor was only 11 years old, but he remembers his farmworker parents coming back from heated meetings, and talking about a potential strike over the kitchen table. “There were people with mortgages, with families to feed, considering a strike action,” he says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667730\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667730\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg\" alt=\"At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike.\" width=\"800\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-800x581.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-400x290.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1440x1046.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-1180x857.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ManongPlaque-960x697.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the Agbayani Village, a retirement home built for the Manongs, Roger Gadiano stands next to a plaque honoring the Manong Filipino workers who started the 1965 grape strike. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On the evening of Sept. 7, workers gathered at Filipino Hall and voted to strike. The next morning they went out to the vineyards, as they always did, but made a dramatic stand. Edillor remembers: \u003ci>“\u003c/i>It was the first day of school, I was all prepared to come home, watch a little TV,” but when he came home, his parents were there. Like the Manongs, and other locals, they’d worked a full day, then left the harvested crop on the ground and walked off the vineyard.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano, who had family members join the strike, adds, “Just imagine over 1,500 old Filipino men at different labor camps, different vineyards, all walking out at same time. How awesome is that!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was Gadiano’s first day of his senior year of high school. He remembers walking into his Spanish II class, and being approached by a grower’s son. “‘Hey Rog, your Uncle Max just went on strike.’ I went, ‘He did? They just want a raise.’ ”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers got kicked out of labor camps. Gadiano says, “The farmers were going to use the Mexicans to break the strike.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cesar Chavez and others, like Dolores Huerta and Gil Padilla, had been organizing Mexican workers around Delano for a few years through the National Farm Workers Association, but a strike wasn’t in their immediate plans. So Larry Itliong appealed to Chavez, and two weeks later, the much more sizable group of Mexican workers joined the strike. Soon, the two unions came together to form what would become United Farm Workers, with Larry Itliong assistant director under Chavez. It was a historic interracial union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667734\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667734\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-800x522.jpg\" alt=\"A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965.\" width=\"800\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/PicketCigar-400x261.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A picketing Filipino farmworker in 1965. \u003ccite>(Farmworker Movement Documentation Project/UC San Diego Library)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“These two groups that had been kept apart for so long, coming together, that is the power in the Delano Grape Strike,” says historian Mabalon.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexicans and Filipinos gathered at Filipino Hall, eating fishhead soup and preparing strikers’ meals, organizing, even sleeping there. Gadiano passed by every day on his way to high school and saw the steps filled with picket signs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They’d eat breakfast and pick up their signs and go to a field location and picket,” he remembers. It took five years of striking, plus an international boycott of table grapes, before growers signed contracts with the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those years weren’t easy on strikers, families or Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gadiano shows me around the grocery store his dad once owned. As the only supplier of Filipino goods in the region, it was popular with townspeople and labor camps, where the family delivered fish, meat and other goods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A common order was a 100-pound sack of Calrose rice, sticky rice,” Gadiano remembers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_10667737\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-medium wp-image-10667737\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg\" alt=\"Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County.\" width=\"800\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-800x675.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-400x338.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1440x1216.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-1180x996.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/10/2015/09/ExaminingGrapes-960x811.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Under a shade from the hot August sun, Josefina Zarate packs grapes in a vineyard southeast of Delano. Grapes are still a top commodity in Kern County. \u003ccite>(Henry A. Barrios/FERN)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>His dad also helped out families of striking workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We were giving them credit to pay us back when work started. We carried hundreds of families. We were stuck in the middle because we had the store.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many families were like Alex Edillor’s: his parents walked off the fields initially, but after a few weeks they felt they had to return to work. 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