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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · Jul 30

Must-read op-ed by Workers Center of CNY organizer Mina Aguilar! The WCCNY team is working hard to support their members being disappeared by ICE in rural New York. Now it's time for the NY Farm Bureau to defend the immigrant workers who make their industry run:
www.nydailynews.com/2025/07/29/t...

The N.Y. Farm Bureau must speak out against ICE

Across New York, immigrants are being torn from their cars, workplaces and homes. Families are being separated as parents and children are disappeared into detention centers with poor conditions an…

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 8h

FCWA member leader @chrisramsaroop.bsky.social on workers and #HeatStress: "Within hours, workers fainted and vomited, while supervisors worried only about the plants. Another day, Jeremiah himself had to be carried out on a cart after collapsing."
www.commondreams.org/opinion/work...

From Fields to Kitchens, the Fight Against Extreme Heat Is a Fight for Workers’ Lives | Common Dreams

Worker organizing points the way forward, reminding us that the fight for safe working conditions is inseparable from the fight for dignity, racial justice, and migrant rights.

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Truthout @truthout.org · 1d

Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage.

Israel Says It’s Halving Aid Into Gaza After Receiving Last 20 Living Captives

Israel says Hamas hasn’t returned captives’ bodies — while still blocking entry of machinery that can clear rubble.

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Bucks County Beacon @buckscountybeacon.com · 1d

ICE’s Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as ‘the Burrito’, Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment | The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture.

ICE's Use of a Full-Body Restraint on Immigrants, Referred to as 'the Burrito', Raises Concerns Over Inhumane Treatment - Bucks County Beacon

The WRAP is the subject of a growing number of federal lawsuits likening incorrect usage of the device to punishment and torture, and when used by local law enforcement has even resulted in deaths.

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 8h

"Awareness has grown within the CGIL and among Italian workers of the connection between the genocide in Palestine and the larger political picture... Many European governments are pushing for rearmament and taking a more authoritarian stance—to the detriment of working people."

Labor Notes @labornotes.bsky.social · 10h

Over 2 million went on a general strike in Italy this month in what CGIL's general secretary called “the extraordinary and unprecedented participation of young people demanding a future of peace and social justice with stable employment.” labornotes.org/2025/10/mill...

Millions of Italians Join General Strike for Gaza

More than 2 million people filled public squares across Italy on October 3 during a one-day general strike in support of the people of Gaza and against the ongoing genocide there. The strike, called b...

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Farmworker Association of Florida @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social · 1d

“If wages drop even more, it won’t be worth it to pick apples.”
The DoL sets the Adverse Effect Wage Rate for H2A workers every year to be above min. wage so that local workers paid min. wage aren't displaced. Today it's $19.94 in CA. Trump will cut it to $13.90. ⬇️
www.thenation.com/article/econ...

Trump Drops the Hammer on Farmworkers

At the end of the season, he cuts wages of 400,000 workers by a third.

www.thenation.com

Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 1d

“Even if people aren’t (immediately) deportable, they are subjecting them to such harsh conditions that they’re hoping that they will just choose to leave,” said Jessica Maxwell, executive director of the Workers' Center of Central New York. “It’s a tactic."

New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC) @thenyic.bsky.social · 1d

According to Albany-based immigration lawyer Matthew Geiling and New York Immigration Coalition Legal Director Rosanna Eugenio, the overlap in law enforcement agencies involved in immigration now often makes it difficult to even determine who has custody of a person.
www.syracuse.com/state/2025/1...

Inside ICE’s New York detention sites: Days on concrete floors, no showers, no calls

Migrants from Cato factory raid spent up to a week in cramped Border Patrol stations with no beds or showers as detention times lengthen under Trump administration.

www.syracuse.com

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 2d

"The Trump administration’s attacks on birthright citizenship do not just threaten immigrant communities. They strike at the very heart of Indigenous sovereignty. They threaten to bring back an era of termination and removal." #IndigenousPeoplesDay
truthout.org/articles/nat...

Native Survival Depends on Protecting Both Tribal and US Citizenship Rights

Trump’s attacks on Native sovereignty and citizenship are a deliberate effort to undermine the rights of tribal nations.

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 7d

The government gave immigration enforcement a $170 BILLION budget increase so they could do exactly what we're seeing in Chicago: drop from helicopters to drag children out of their beds and zip tie them, tear gas crowds, shoot people (two so far), and detain an alderperson for asking questions.

In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 7d

Even in a government shutdown, the 13th largest army in the world wages war in Chicago. ICE’s militarized raids & abductions are terrorizing communities—while billions are poured into their hands.

@sarahlazare.bsky.social & @lindsaykosh.bsky.social report:
inthesetimes.com/article/ice-...

A group of uniformed SWAT officers, wearing tactical gear and masks, stand alert on a street. Parked police vehicles and trees are visible behind them.

A large crowd of protesters gather around a white van on a sunny day. People raise their fists and signs, including one reading “No Kings,” expressing defiance.

A group of Illinois State Police officers, in uniform with protective gear and helmets, stand in formation holding batons, facing a crowd. The officers appear focused and tense, with sunlight casting strong shadows.

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Farmworker Association of Florida @floridafarmworkers.bsky.social · 7d

H-2A employers legally must post their jobs in the US before offering them abroad. Foreign workers here legally to work are being detained, now there's nobody to work the fields. If US doesn't want the job & won't let H-2A do it, it won't get done. "The fear is here"
www.tampabay.com/news/florida...

Florida farmers struggle as legal foreign workers worry about immigration crackdown

Even agriculture workers who enter the U.S. legally, doing jobs Americans find undesirable, are fearful of being targeted by federal enforcement.

www.tampabay.com

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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 8d

Gaza is facing its darkest phase: starvation, isolation, and relentless attacks. Families are losing everything, children are at extreme risk, and aid is blocked. We cannot look away.

Yousef Aljamal reports from July of this year.

This Is the Worst Phase of the Gaza Genocide

With aid deliveries being limited severely since March, Palestinians are facing extreme levels of starvation, isolation and murder by Israel.

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Civil Eats @civileats.com · 8d

Trump Administration Eases Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers

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Trump Administration Eases Application Process and Lowers Wages for Guest Farmworkers

The Department of Labor and the Department of Homeland Security made two changes last week to the federal farm guestworker program that will make it easier for farms to bring seasonal workers in from other countries and allow them to pay those workers less.

The first change, posted by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Oct. 2, adjusts the H-2A paperwork process to speed up applications with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS).

The changes are part of a larger collaborative effort with the Department of Labor (DOL), the DHS said, to streamline the program “in light of an urgent demand for an authorized agricultural labor force and requests from the regulated community and members of Congress to make the H-2A program easier to use and more efficient for U.S. agricultural producers.”

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 22d

🫵 The Food Chain Workers Alliance is looking for an organizer to join our small, remote staff team! Are you an experienced grassroots organizer with a passion for workers' rights? Learn more at the #LinkInBio and send inquiries to: [email protected]

Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 14d

"One of the most devastating aspects of the ongoing Israeli campaign has been the phenomenon of what locals call the use of remote-controlled “robots” rigged with explosives and sent into dense built-up areas to be detonated, causing widespread destruction."

Truthout @truthout.org · 14d

The Israeli army just announced that it won’t allow Palestinians in central and southern Gaza to travel north to Gaza City, saying that anyone who remains will be considered “terrorists.” An estimated 500,000 Palestinians remain in Gaza City, who are now officially cut off from any provisions.

Israeli Official: Palestinians Who Don’t Evacuate Gaza City Deemed “Terrorists”

About 500,000 remain, cut off from any provisions coming from the south, including food, water, fuel, and medicine.

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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 14d

Italy's largest union, with over 5.5 million workers, has called a general strike for Friday in solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

And smaller Italian unions have said they will join CGIL's general strike.

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 21d

Just yesterday, Sens. Ossoff and Warnock released a letter stating that the death rate for ICE detainees between Jan-June is the highest in the first six months of any year publicly available:
www.npr.org/2025/09/23/n...

Georgia senators demand answers on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 21d

Three ICE detainees were shot this morning. One has died, bringing the 2025 death toll of ICE detainees to at least 16.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Three people shot at Texas Ice building as suspected gunman dies

Ice spokesperson reportedly said that all three people shot were detainees at the immigration facility located in Dallas

www.theguardian.com

Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 22d

Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 23d

"Since the inauguration, Migrant Justice has documented nearly three dozen ICE and Border Patrol actions in VT, resulting in the detentions of 77 people. These are only the cases where the org has been directly involved...a fraction of the overall detentions." More at #LinkInBio

1/25 Ecuadorian asylum seeker detained by ICE in Burlington
2/7 Ecuadorian construction worker detained by ICE on his way to work
2/9 Venezuelan family detained by CBP after mistakenly driving to the Canadian border
2/22 Mexican man detained in the street while looking for work
2/24 Ecuadorian construction worker detained by ICE at a gas station in Burlington
3/10 Mexican farmworker detained by CBP in Derby
4/4 3 workers detained outside the DMV in S. Burlington by ICE
4/9 Arbey Lopez, a Mexican father, detained in Enosburg while delivering food to farmworkers
4/14 Mohsen Mahdawi detained by ICE at an immigration appointment in Colchester
4/21 8 Mexican farmworkers detained in their homes at a dairy in Berkshire
4/22 Two Haitians detained by CBP while trying to request asylum in Canada
5/15 Four Peruvian landscapers detained while driving home from work
5/19 Ecuadorian father detained on his way to work
5/22 Two Mexican farmworkers detained on their way to their milking shift
5/24 Two Guatemalan sisters detained by ICE while leaving their home in Colchester
5/28 11 construction workers detained at a worksite in Newport
6/1 Honduran man detained by ICE
6/8 Ecuadorian asylum seeker detained by ICE in Burlington on his way to work
6/14 Migrant Justice leaders Nacho and Heidi detained in Richford while delivering food to farmworkers
7/26 Mexican father of three, in US for over 30 years, pulled over and detained by CBP while on vacation in VT
7/2 Ecuadorian roofer detained by ICE while driving home from the store
7/30 4 Ecuadorian construction workers detained by CBP coming off the Lake Champlain ferry on their way to a worksite
8/2 3 Mexican workers detained at a lumber yard in Essex
8/4 Mexican farmworker pulled off a tractor and detained by CBP in Berkshire
8/8 Nicaraguan asylum seeker pulled over and detained by ICE
8/12 3 men detained by ICE at a bus station in Colchester
8/19 9 Ecuadorian construction workers detained by CBP leaving a worksite in Barton
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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · 23d

Guadalupe & Emanuel Diaz are farmworkers and organizers with @migrantjustice.bsky.social, imprisoned in an immigration detention center after being pulled off the street by ICE while they were apparently looking for someone else.

📝Sign the petition to free them: migrantjustice.net/news/free-fa...

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · Sep 11

Our fall 2025 cohort of worker leaders is underway! 16 food workers are connecting across sectors and regions of North America to build their organizing skills with the FCWA organizing team. Because when frontline workers are empowered to organize, they can win! More at #LinkInBio

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Screenshot of a zoom call shows seven windows, with six people smiling and/or holding their fists up (with one person holding their baby's fist up!).

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · Sep 9

📢 WE'RE HIRING: Are you an experienced grassroots organizer with a passion for workers' rights? You might be the next FCWA Organizer! Check out the job description on our website: foodchainworkers.org/2025/09/hiri...

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Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · Sep 8

📢 The Workers' Center of Central NY and allies are calling on the community to demand that CBP give detainees access to phone calls and lawyers!!

☎️ Call @governor.ny.gov and @kirstengillibrand.bsky.social to add your voice today:

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1. Governor Kathy Hochul: 518-474-8390
Call on Governor Kathy Hochul to help us locate workers and prevent any further deportations, as many people have pending court dates!!

2. Kirsten Gillibrand: Syracuse 315-448-0470, North Country 315-376-6118, NYC 212-688-6262
Call on Kirsten Gillibrand to inspect conditions at Oswego and Wellesley Island CBP stations ASAP!

Food Chain Workers Alliance @foodchainworkers.bsky.social · Sep 8

One of the largest workplace raids of 2025 was last week in Cato, NY when ICE took ~70 people from a protein bar factory. Detainees are currently in Border Patrol stations in Oswego, where they're "not allowed to see or speak to anyone outside...not even a lawyer."
www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours

More than 40 workers detained in a massive CNY immigration said have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

www.syracuse.com

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Worker Justice Center of New York @wjcny.bsky.social · Sep 8

We are outraged by the recent raid in Cato, NY. Shame on the Cayuga & Oswego county sheriffs for collaborating with ICE to tear families apart and wreak havoc on their own communities. We need #NY4All to end this disgraceful use of our tax dollars.

www.syracuse.com/news/2025/09...

Speed, confusion, no courts: ICE ships Upstate NY factory workers to Central America in 72 hours

More than 40 workers detained in a massive CNY immigration said have been quickly shuttled to the Texas-Mexico border

www.syracuse.com

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Truthout @truthout.org · Sep 4

Israel has taken massive steps toward annexation of the West Bank in recent months, escalating violent raids in the region, leading to record death tolls, while accelerating illegal settlement expansion. MSF warned in a new report that its field teams are already seeing evidence of ethnic cleansing.

Israel’s Smotrich Vows to Annex West Bank: “Maximum Land, Minimum Population”

“The goal of sovereignty is to, once and for all, remove the Palestinian state from the agenda,” Smotrich said.

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