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2. Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center - Wikipedia

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   Peter J. Pitchess Detention Center, also known as Pitchess Detention Center or simply Pitchess, is an all-male county detention center and correctional facility named in honor of Peter J. Pitchess located directly east of exit 173 off Interstate 5 in the unincorporated community of Castaic in Los Angeles County, California.

3. California agricultural strikes of 1933 - Wikipedia

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   Although California cotton growers paid marginally better than cotton growers in other states, wages for cotton pickers in California had declined significantly from $1.50 per hundred pounds in 1928 to just 40 cents per hundred pounds in 1932 (although the rate could go as high as 60 cents per hundred pounds for ground being picked over a ...

4. Tree spiking - Wikipedia

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   Tree spiking involves hammering a metal rod, nail or other material into a tree trunk, either inserting it at the base of the trunk where a logger might be expected to cut into the tree, or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood. Contact with the spike often damages saw blades, which can result in injuries, or ...

5. California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975 - Wikipedia

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   The California Agricultural Labor Relations Act (CALRA) [note 1] is a landmark [2] statute in United States labor law that was enacted by the state of California in 1975, [3] establishing the right to collective bargaining for farmworkers in that state, a first in U.S. history.

6. Meet the daring tree climbers needed to replant 1.5 million ...

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   Gov. Gavin Newsom’s Forestry and Fire Task Force found that 1.5 million acres of California forest were scorched by 70% high-severity fire during the 2019-2021 fire seasons, according to an ...

7. California closes thousands of farmworkers’ homes annually ...

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   A 2023 Sacramento Bee investigation revealed many migrants farmworkers would prefer to stay year-round in California. ... “The very nature of migrant farm work has changed so there’s an ...

8. South Central Farm - Wikipedia

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   On July 5, 2006, workers began bulldozing the farm amidst strong protest and acts of civil disobedience. The farmers disputed the validity of the sale in court and staged vigils in protest. The farm is the subject of the 2008 Academy Award-nominated documentary film The Garden and the PBS documentary, South Central Farm, Oasis in a Concrete Desert.

9. Tree trimmer dies after getting stuck 50ft up a California ...

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   Bardomiano Bautista-Perez, 39, became pinned by the fronds as he worked halfway up giant tree