“Si se puede!”: Students host first annual farmworker symposium

After a morning of rain on Friday, dozens of student organizers gathered for Stanford’s first annual farmworker symposium.

Held at the O’Donohue Family Stanford Educational Farm, the two-day symposium highlighted the continued struggles of farmworker communities and ongoing efforts to organize California laborers.

The symposium hosted representatives from a variety of different groups, including the United Farmworkers (UFW) Foundation, Tierras Milperas and the Coalition of Immokalee Workers...