August 31, 2012, 12:05 AM
A bill the state Legislature approved this week would allow mobile home park residents who have been charged excessive water rates by their landlords to seek restitution. The bill, which is headed to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk, stems from a 2009 complaint [PDF] filed by residents of the...
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December 16, 2011, 11:55 AM
It started in 2001 and mostly affected the very young and very old. Peoples’ hair would fall out, their skin would break out in rashes and their eyes would turn red after showers. “That was how people were hurt on the outside,” said Horacio Amezquita, manager of the San...
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November 28, 2011, 12:05 AM
On a recent November afternoon, Hermelinda Hernandez, who had spent 27 years packing cauliflower and cantaloupes from the farms of the Imperial Valley, found herself fourth in line for the monthly distribution of emergency food at the New Life Assembly Church in Calexico. Hundreds of...
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October 25, 2011, 12:26 AM
Hemos puesto la información para comunicarse con funcionarios y agencias claves del gobierno, recursos para los propietarios de casas rodantes (incluyendo oportunidades para voluntarios y donantes), y una entrevista informativa con dos expertos en el tema de la legislación para residentes de casas...
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October 25, 2011, 12:13 AM
De un extremo de la Avenida 54, un camino que corta una tajada por algunas de las tierras más fértiles en los Estados Unidos, mora la California de la imaginación popular: un lugar de pantalones cortos Bermuda, canchas de golf y cenas con champán de vistas espléndidas por encima de la piscina...
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October 25, 2011, 12:13 AM
Cada año llegan miles de trabajadores migrantes a Coachella Valley a cosechar uvas, dátiles, berenjenas y fresas. Algunos se quedan y aquí crían a sus hijos. Muchos viven en los parqueaderos superpoblados sin contar con sistemas adecuados para el agua, la luz y el desagüe.
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October 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
In the heat of the desert, more than 30,000 farmworkers have set up makeshift homes in overcrowded trailer parks—often without access to clean water, electricity and sewage systems. Some, like Ana Sanchez, are demanding basic rights to safe living conditions.
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October 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
Here, you will find ways you can become part of a potential solution. We’ve listed contact information for key government officials and agencies, resources for mobile home owners (including volunteer and donation opportunities), and a Q&A with two experts on California’s Mobilehome Residency Law.
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October 25, 2011, 12:05 AM
In Coachella Valley – one of the poorest, densest areas of the United States – an estimated 15,000 to 20,000 migrant workers pour into already crowded trailer parks, sleeping in fields, alongside irrigation ditches, on swatches of cardboard.
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September 7, 2011, 12:05 AM
In some of California’s top strawberry-growing counties, levels of banned methyl bromide remain nearly as high as they were a decade ago, despite a mandated phaseout, according to an analysis by New America Media. The fumigant was supposed to have been phased out completely by 2005,...
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