By Raymond Douglas Chong, AsAmNews Staff Writer
A few miles from Monterey Bay on the Central Coast of California, Watsonville is the heart of Pajaro Valley, a lush farmland. But for five days in 1930, Watsonville was engulfed by an Anti-Filipino Race Riot.
Roy Recio, son a Filipino farmworker, will present a webinar, on Saturday, January 23, 2021:
Watsonville Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots.
Please join this community Talk Story presentation and discussion to learn about the events and neglected history of the 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots, which took place from January 19 to January 24. This year will mark the 91st anniversary of this fateful event where White mobs terrorized Filipino immigrants on the Central Coast.You can register here for this free event.
Watsonville nurses ask for answers with second demonstration this month [Santa Cruz Sentinel, Calif.]
Dec. 30 WATSONVILLE California Nurses Association organizers Roseann Farris and Quiché Rubalcava were encouraged by the reaction to the first action at Watsonville Community HospitalDec. 16 to protest the idea of reducing the nurse-to-patient care ratio.
In fact, many incoming, current and outgoing Watsonville City Council members showed up in support and promised to consider a second safe staffing resolution at their first meeting of 2021 (Jan. 12). But as Farris, Rubalcava and their coworkers have learned that the hospital has elected to apply for a waiver that waived the long-established nurse-to-patient ratio, they decided Jan. 12 was not soon enough.