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Building a Rapid-Response Network to Defend Immigrant Workers

Dan DiMaggio and Pioneer Valley Workers Center Staff Labor Notes
In Western Massachusetts, the Pioneer Valley Workers Center has created a rapid-response network it calls “Sanctuary in the Streets” (SiS). The worker center, founded in 2014, organizes restaurant workers and farmworkers in the area.

A Texas lawsuit hinges on this question: What, exactly, are “pickles”?

Baylen J. Linnekin New Food Economy
The Department of State Health Services in Texas limits the definition of “pickle” to cucumbers only, much to the chagrin of small farmers like Anita Patton-McHaney and James McHaney
One couple wants to take advantage of the state’s cottage food law by selling pickled beets, carrots, and other vegetables they grow in their market garden. But the Texas health department says that’s only legal if they want to sell pickled cucumbers