March 7, 2022The Oregon Legislative 2022 session has come to an end with the successful passage of the high-profile Farmworker Overtime Bill,…
September 3, 2020Teams from Beyond Toxics and the NAACP Eugene/Springfield came together in 2018 to start the process of organizing an Environmental…
December 5, 2017More than 1 billion pounds of poisonous pesticides are applied on farms annually in the United States, resulting in as…
November 9, 2017I remember, and you might too, feeling virtuous when my family took part in the California grape boycott in the…
May 24, 2017Oregon has over 300 registered farm worker housing camps and another 200 unregistered camps. Most of these camps are located…
December 15, 2016The Register Guard published a Nov. 30 guest viewpoint written by former Lane County Commissioner, Anna Morrison, who no longer…
June 30, 2016Recently, I had lunch in the employee cafeteria of an international corporation based in Lane County. I was somewhat amazed,…
February 18, 2016This is Part III of a three-part series on the working conditions and treatment of Oregon's immigrant forestry workers.
October 17, 2015Two years ago, there was little public awareness about the common industrial practice of using helicopters to spray thousands of…
October 5, 2015Highly toxics pesticides should not be sprayed on workers, but the Oregon Department of Agriculture concluded that is what Oregon-based…
