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Articles Below are written June, July, August, September and October by Edna Collins. It is difficult to write, pay and fight with people in this community who are selfish and keep hurting me! Not good behavior by those attacking me. There is enough room for ALL of US! Stop your BS!
Everyone across America heard our President ask Congress for money to remove - deport Criminal migrants who have entered without HBI visa or temporary workers permit. Our farmworkers community citizens are very nervous, especially moms with children. Most Farmworkers are non violent they just want to feed their families!
Edition 3 touched on current federal, state & local laws are not written to accept any immigrant/foreigners as equals. Therefore, although immigrants follow laws, pay tax, work in the fields or with their sponsoring employer as they wait for citizenship all will not achieve total acceptance of the American dream.
Why?
Only elimination or legal language conformation to neutralize and to incorporate Human Rights decree for the world which our first lady Elenore Roosevelt helped to pass in 1948. Another reason is us! Many folks use the gossip system not ever getting the real facts.
I would encourage those of you who have never experienced the migrant life to please go to the library read, or watch a video to know, understand what your neighbor, school friend, co-worker or fellow business person is worried about first before throwing stones at them!
Other root irritations are by those younger uninformed folks who use these societal moments to act out in a physically hateful or abusive manner toward those of us who are unable to defend ourselves physically nor engage in fighting or name calling.
Bullying.
As a daughter to a strawberry picker my classmate knew mother was a farmworker. On the playground, in class or walking down the hall my fellow students gave me my first experience of discrimination, hurt of not being accepted. Fortunate or Unfortunately those same children grew up to be adults!
Guess what those same behaviors will continue until they are educated/informed of the reason why certain folks are being targeted by ICE. Children's boundaries are not that wide, therefore, parents must guide and share knowledge. The child must understand unwanted touching is a crime. I never told Mother students on the playground played meanly.
Bullying is a team sport. Mothers please inform your children to not pick on children smaller than themselves. Next please, talk, remind or at best inform them as to to some of their classmates may have to move. Teach your children not to lie, or hit other people.
Children easily accept change! Avoid trauma for all the children...its not easy to remove hurt feelings and especially physical abuse. I barely survived the 70's...hate was strong! Adapt to the moment in time. Please be receptive and kind to those different looking people...they love you too!
Jesus LOVES all the little children of the world just as you were born!
Different People Can Do Great Things!
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Roosevelt presented the declaration to the Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Switzerland in November 1948.
She convinced the United States State Department to accept a definition of human rights that included economic, social, and cultural rights.
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She convinced the General Assembly to adopt the Declaration.
How Roosevelt was involved:
Eleanor Roosevelt chaired the UN Commission on Human Rights that drafted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The UDHR was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 10, 1948. How Roosevelt was involved, she recruited Monsenior Higgins with Nixon's blessing.
Significance of the UDHR
The UDHR is a foundational document in the history of human rights. It's made up of 30 articles that outline the basic rights and freedoms of all people. The UDHR is considered a milestone document because it's written in universalist language.
Roosevelt's views
Roosevelt called the UDHR a "Magna Carta" for people everywhere. She urged all countries to accept it as a standard of conduct.
Note: Elenore was Franklin's cousin, her mom told Elenore you will be an old maid. Marry Franklin, his family is positioning him to be President. Your time will come! Elenore grew up in a Roosevelt family known American political family from New York whose members have included two United States presidents, a First Lady, and various merchants, bankers, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites. where she was viewed as an odd Person...Not pretty, shy & awkward. Very Squeaky voice. Different!
Elenore also championed as First Lady (poverty alleviation, access to education, conflict resolution, and civil rights) as well as the issues she addressed as a delegate to the General Assembly (refugee concerns, humanitarian relief, and the reconstruction of war-torn Europe). Excerpts -article was prepared by Allida Black, the Eleanor Roosevelt Papers Project at George Washington University for the National Park Service.
Let's Start to Live Elenore's Dream...Be Accepting! Change!
This WWII battle wasn't against Nazis. It was between
Black and white GIs in England
Responding to a wave of pressure from President Truman and Secretary of State George C. Marshall to launch a moral offensive against the USSR, she agreed to deliver a keynote address at the Sorbonne in Paris in September 1948. She titled her remarks, “The Struggle for Human Rights.”
By the time ER assumed the podium that fall, domestic politics and international tensions combined forces to hinder the Declaration’s adoption.
The subcommittee had distributed its draft of the Declaration (which the Soviet bloc had not endorsed) for member nations’ review in the spring. Over the summer, the Soviets blockaded Berlin, communist-supported unions struck in Italy and France, the Arab-Israeli conflict escalated, Mao tse Tung battled nationalist forces in China, and American political parties splintered. Calling “the preservation of human freedom” “one of the greatest issues of our time,” ER told the overflow audience the world still struggled to rebound from the violence and coercion of wartime totalitarian governments and that only the Declaration had the “moral force” to shift the discussion away from the “reaction, retreat, and retrogression” of the past.”
The world must take the time “to think carefully and clearly on the subject of human rights, because in the acceptance and observance of these rights lies the root, I believe, of our chance for peace in the future, and for the strengthening of the United Nations organization to the point where it can maintain peace in the future. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/21/1183045605/black-army-soldiers-england-wwii-battle
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Hi, Edna, founder of Yo Soy Media Inc., has been on a family self-discovery journey upon my 2014 return home. Yes, in the 70’s the advice given to my parents was to assimilate their children to the new owners of their land. I, being the oldest, interested in reading and learning became the chosen-one who was not taught Spanish at home, never heard most of the family stories.
Unfortunately this led me to not knowing, understanding my indigenous family. The custom was to not share the sad stories of being exposed to typical attacking, outward discrimination Mother encountered, by those who identified her as native. I watched from the car, she just endured the outward bigotry at its finest, walking away.
All I did know is that my family is of Mexican descent. This what, how we are defined:
Wikipedia: Californios (singular Californio) are Hispanic Californians, especially descended from Spanish and Mexican settlers of the 17th through 19th centuries before California was annexed by the United States. California's Spanish-speaking community has resided there since 1683 and is made up of varying Spanish and Mexican origins, including criollos, Mestizos, Indigenous Californian
Mama Chepa wearing her camp dress in front of her yearly crop
Growing up Mother ran me around with her all around the County. Our friends from school were not allowed home ever only Older close relatives. The eldest in our family was assigned to help out, ME, standing flipping tortillas at 4 am, or sitting according to direction or watching my brothers and sisters as they were added to the family.
Mother, was always teaching or training us as was done since before the 16th century. I started working in the fields at nine and was very familiar with the people at the grape field. I got to know the Japanese family at the grape field, off Valentine and Clinton. At my G-ma’s Sunnyside, work I met the Armenian granny and her family, in Chinatown I sat up front by the candy case at Chihuahua tortilla factory helping my step cousins who were more formal Spaniards.
My step- cousins' parents were involved with other businesses at their business I would occasionally see a delivery white guy or a couple of business people from across the tracks. My dad would always introduce me to the Hacienda, his work and Chinatown merchants.
HISTORIC REFERENCE: https://www.fresnostatenews.com/2014/03/28/ufw-supporter-villegas-to-receive-chicano-alumni-legacy-award/
With his older brother Fidel and family, the Villegas’ established Chihuahua Tortilleria in 1947 and built it into the second largest tortilla manufacturing and distribution plant in Central and Northern California with more than 300 employees at its peak. They moved from a plant on F Street just north of Ventura Street to a new builidng known as the Chihuhua Plaza on Fresno and E streets, next to Highway 99, that was part of an effort to spruce up Chinatown.
Following the Gold Rush of the 1850s, the San Joaquin Valley became a major center for dry-farmed wheat, leading to it being called the "breadbasket of America" through the 1890s. The development of large-scale, labor-saving technologies, such as the first commercially successful combined grain harvesters in the early 1880s, solidified this status. By 1890, California was the second largest wheat-producing state in the U.S., which further reinforced the "bread basket" moniker.
Historical Note: California is known as the "breadbasket of America" because its fertile Central Valley produces a huge portion of the nation's fruits, nuts, and vegetables, though this region primarily grows produce rather than grains. The term "breadbasket" refers to a highly productive agricultural region, and the Central Valley is also called the "food basket of the world" for its significant output, despite its grain production being relatively small compared to the Midwest.
I met his Jewish, Cuban, Filipino, Chinese, Irish, Greek orthodox and Black friends. As a pre-teen I learned my privileges, as a light-skinned native, I joined clubs at the library. I mingled with more Caucasians and Armenians, never did see many Asian, Black or Brown people like my family members, circa 1966 Fresno, CA.
Over 30+ years, from 1981, visually I could see Fresno’s society had many more different faces. I, now a visitor-traveler, watched Fresno’s population change into today an International center! Returning home to live in Fresno, I never gave a second thought of what I might encounter as a City or County, or what people’s beliefs or how business had developed or how 1969 -1975 major non-violent farmworker liberation and unionization protests may have affected how this Ag community would be overtaken, managed governmentally to this grand scale of Corporate Farming.
Yes. It amazes me that those rich ego power wielding politicians will make major changes as to how people live or die to get more taxpayer money. Land! Management of water in one direction, continued marginalization of small farmers to bankruptcy key to Corporate purchases. All this to increase use of mineral and synthetic nitrogen fertilizers, between 1964-1976 yields increased from 1.6 to 6 billion.
Ref. https://calmatters.org/environment/water/2025/01/trump-orders-central-valley-water-la-fires/
Yes. Central Cali still holds the tag “Bread Basket” of the world since early 1810 or so, but at what environmental cost:
National Stats: Expenditures nationally totaled $230.0 billion .
Accounting for 48.2% of total farm production expenditures in 2024.
Includes: feed at 15.3%, farm services: 11.6%, labor: 10.8%
Purchase/leasing: livestock and poultry at 10.4%.
What about our Earth? Farming causes: deforestation, water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and soil degradation. Deforestation results from economic development damages soil and makes areas more prone to drought.
Loss of biodiversity. Economic growth leads to resource depletion and loss of biodiversity. This could harm future 'carrying capacity of ecological systems' for the economy. Direct government farm program payments from July 2024 to July 2025, $42.4 billion in direct government payments to farmers and ranchers. This marks a significant increase from the $9.3 billion forecast for 2024. Check reference: according to the USDA. https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2023-2024_california_agricultural_statistics_review.pdf
Land Management Losses 2025 per vote:
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) estimates that between 500,000 and 1 million acres of farmland in California's Central Valley (San Joaquin Valley) will need to be fallowed (taken out of production) by 2040 to meet groundwater sustainability goals. This reduction is necessary due to ongoing groundwater overdraft, with some areas projecting as much as 20% of the valley's agricultural land being taken out of cultivation.
The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) was enacted in order to halt overdraft and bring basins into balanced levels of pumping and recharge. Aug 2, 2024
After Fresno County, the remaining top-10 California counties for ag production are: Tulare, Monterey, Kern, Merced, Imperial, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Santa Barbara, and Kings. See USDA Feb 13, 2024 Interestingly the level of discrimination has moved up to an unreasonable point of senior Californios like myself being mistreated, physically hurt all because of a false level of discontent toward migrants or native groups. Reported anti-Black, anti-Latino, and anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 156% overall from 2019 to 2022
After Fresno County, the remaining top-10 California counties for ag production are: Tulare, Monterey, Kern, Merced, Imperial, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Santa Barbara, and Kings. See USDA Feb 13, 2024 Interestingly the level of discrimination has moved up to an unreasonable point of senior Californios like myself being mistreated, physically hurt all because of a false level of discontent toward migrants or native groups. Reported anti-Black, anti-Latino, and anti-Asian hate crimes increased by 156% overall from 2019 to 2022
On the upside, I discovered Fresno now has sister cities and a cadre of multicultural events from Hindi color celebrations to Indigenous dance of the Nuu Yuku Danza de los Diablos of mid- Central to the mid- coastal Mexico.
Central Cali is now a buffet of languages that represent 130 of 7,000 languages spoken around the world today.
According to: Ancestries of Californians Per Wikipedia Net domestic migration, California[30] Demographics of California - Wikipedia Central Cali has 70 distinct ethnic groups, of which 105 additional languages are spoken. California has more than 1,270 new ethnic groups across the State. Central Cali’s native-indigenous is home to a diverse Native American people of which 135 distinct dialects are spoken by inhabitants, Spanish and English still are the majority languages spoken.
Houses of Worship have gained a few more diverse Worldly forms of praying, yet the same higher power. As of 2024 the majority are still Protestant @ 26%, Catholic @ 25% Non-Religion @ 33%.according to Religion in California Report [133]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles_California_Temple
BAPS Shri Swaminarayan Mandir in Chino Hills
Local indigenous Californian bands include: Yokuts, (seen here Miwok, Maidu, and Mono. Our major ethnic groups, according to the last census: Hispanic/Latino, White, Asian/Pacific Islander, Black/African. Others, according to the Language Network, are ancestry groups originating Yokuts Poling Tule Boats is a photograph by Underwood Archives Onia which was uploaded on January 12th, 2015.
Mono people are a Native American tribe from the central Sierra Nevada and Eastern Sierra regions of California, traditionally speaking a Numic Uto-Aztecan language and living in the San Joaquin Valley and Mono Basin. They are divided into the Western Mono (or Monache) on the western slopes of the Sierras and the Eastern Mono (or Owens Valley Paiute) in the Owens River Valley.
From diverse regions worldwide, like Mexicans, Chinese, Vietnamese, Koreans, Indians, Filipinos, Armenians, Salvadorans, and Iranians, to name a few, Language Network.
Yearly - Fresno’s Kwanzaa Celebration
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Pancho/Frank-Lipan Apache Bird Dance
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Join us for a joyous Kwanzaa Celebration hosted by the Divine 9 at the African American Historical and Cultural Museum of the San Joaquin Valley.
This event is free and open to the public, offering an opportunity to come together as a community to celebrate the rich cultural heritage of African American traditions. Kwanzaa is a time to reflect on the Seven Principles (Nguzo Saba) of unity, self-determination, collective work and responsibility, cooperative economics, purpose, creativity, and faith.
Through music, dance, storytelling, and fellowship, we will honor these principles and celebrate the strength and resilience of our community. visit the African American Museum of the San Joaquin Valley (AAM)
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