Rose Arrieta was born and raised in Los Angeles. She has worked in print, broadcast and radio, both mainstream and community oriented — including being a former editor of the Bay Area’s independent community bilingual biweekly El Tecolote. She currently lives in San Francisco, where she is a freelance journalist writing for a variety of outlets on social justice issues.
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Protesters Arrested at $15-an-Hour Action Outside Burger King
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Hundreds of San Francisco Transit Workers Stage ‘Sickout’ to Protest Pension Cuts
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Detainees Reportedly Thrown Into Solitary Confinement as Hunger Strike Continues
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Billboards Pave the Way for a Fight for 15 in Los Angeles
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California Domestic Workers Win Long-Sought Bill of Rights
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Wal-Mart Workers Take Demands for Change to Marissa Mayer’s Penthouse
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Demanding Better Pay and Workplace Safety, BART Workers Go On Strike
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‘E-Verification’ of Mi Pueblo Workers Sparks Fear and Ire
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Native Women and Sex Trafficking: An Overlooked Crisis
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In Memoriam: Mike Welch, Organizer and Unsung Hero of Labor Movement
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San Franciscans Clash With U.K. Grocer Over Labor Practices, Job Creation
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Immokalee Workers and Allies ‘Fast for Fair Food’ in Florida
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What Alabama’s Anti-Immigrant HB56 Has Wrought
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Berkeley Workers ‘March For Dignity’ After DHS Audit Slashes Steel Plant Workforce
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As Negotiations Loom, Janitors From Across California March in LA
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Construction Work: Still Deadly, Still Badly Regulated
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Worker Unrest Returns to Foxconn Factory in China
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Trouble in Candyland: American Licorice Workers Strike Over Healthcare Benefits
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Happy Holidays? Not for 200 Pacific Steel Workers in California
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Good News on Horizon for America’s Growing In-Home Care Workforce
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Forty Verizon Workers Fired for Strike Activity
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Phil Ochs: The Forgotten Man of the ‘60s Protest Era
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Oakland General Strike Builds Solidarity With Labor
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San Francisco Union Members and Occupy Protesters ‘Foreclose’ Wells Fargo
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Verizon Workers to iPhone Lovers: Side With Us
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Rights of Tobacco Farm Workers Go Up in Smoke in North Carolina
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Labor Charges Filed in Castlewood Club Lockout
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Nurses Union to Wall St.: ‘You Got to Give Up the Dough—Pay What You Owe!’
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Labor’s Tar Sands Pipeline Dilemma
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Guatemala Labor Case: US Steps Up Pressure
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Good News for Wage-Theft Victims in San Francisco
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Giant Supervalu Grocery Chain Sues Small Workers Center
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On Sacred Ground: Native Occupation of Calif. Cove Ends After Tribes’ Victory (UPDATED)
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Domestic Workers Rights Bill Moves Forward in California
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Congresswoman and Eva Longoria Partner to Help Children in the Fields
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Mad as Hell, and Not Going to Drive Anymore: San Francisco Cabbies Hold Two-Hour Strike
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Janitors Commemorate 21st Anniversary of Justice for Janitors March
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Grocery Store Cleaners Enter Day 7 of Hunger Strike
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Card Check Bill for California Farm Workers Heads to Governor’s Desk
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‘Locked Out’ Savors Story of Rio Tinto Miners’ Hard-Fought Victory
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Chipotle Workers Under New Scrutiny by the Feds
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United Front: Labor, Immigrant Rights Movements See Converging Future
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Salvadoran Farmer Activist Resists Corporate Gold Mining Plans
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A Lawsuit, 1,000 E-mails and San Francisco’s Superfund Site
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Japan’s Disaster and the Question of Charity Work
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Mexican Grocery Chain Workers Sue for Unpaid Wages in Silicon Valley
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‘Deeper Into the Shadows’: The Aftermath of ICE’s Audits and Enforcement Strategy
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‘Silent Raids’: ICE’s New Tactic Quietly Wreaks Havoc on Immigrant Workers
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