{"id":11398,"date":"2025-05-07T15:27:45","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/?p=11398"},"modified":"2025-05-07T15:27:45","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T15:27:45","slug":"farm-labor-organizing-committee-march-rally-for-immigration-reform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/farm-labor-organizing-committee-march-rally-for-immigration-reform\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Labor Organizing Committee March &#038; Rally for Immigration Reform"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_11399\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11399\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mary-Jane-Flores-Jose-Trevino-and-Judy-Kehrle-copy.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11399\" src=\"http:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mary-Jane-Flores-Jose-Trevino-and-Judy-Kehrle-copy-300x204.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"204\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mary-Jane-Flores-Jose-Trevino-and-Judy-Kehrle-copy-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Mary-Jane-Flores-Jose-Trevino-and-Judy-Kehrle-copy.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-11399\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mary Jane Flores, Jose Trevino, and Judy Kehrle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, May 3, 2025, people from Northwest Ohio and the University of Michigan gathered for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee\u2019s (FLOC) peaceful March &amp; Rally for Immigration Reform in South Toledo. The group gathered with their poster boards, waving their red FLOC flags, and chanting in support of immigration reform and immigrants. President of FLOC, Baldemar Velasquez lead the march and Father Notter prayed over the gathering as he has many times in the past. President Velasquez shared with me that Father Notter has been involved with the Latinx community and this movement since he (Velasquez) was first arrested during the Campbell Soup Company boycott of the late 1970s and early 1980s.<\/p>\n<p><em>El s\u00e1bado 3 de mayo de 2025, personas del noroeste de Ohio y de la Universidad de Michigan se reunieron en el sur de Toledo para una Marcha pac\u00edfica por la Reforma Migratoria del Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC)<\/em><em>. El grupo se reuni\u00f3 con sus p\u00f3sters, sus banderas rojas del FLOC, y coreando en apoyo a la reforma migratoria y a los inmigrantes. El presidente del FLOC, Baldemar Vel\u00e1squez, estaba al frente de la marcha y el Padre Notter or\u00f3 por la reuni\u00f3n, como lo ha hecho en muchas ocasiones. El presidente Vel\u00e1squez me cont\u00f3 que el Padre Notter ha estado involucrado con la comunidad latina y este movimiento desde que \u00e9l (Vel\u00e1squez) fue arrestado por primera vez durante el boicot de la Compa\u00f1\u00eda Campbell Soup en los a\u00f1os setenta y ochentas.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-11398 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-medium'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/farm-labor-organizing-committee-march-rally-for-immigration-reform\/baldemar-and-father-notter-copy\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"206\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-300x206.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" aria-describedby=\"gallery-1-11400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-300x206.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"Baldemar and Father Notter copy\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-11400'>\n\t\t\t\tBaldemar and Father Notter copy\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/07\/farm-labor-organizing-committee-march-rally-for-immigration-reform\/floc\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" src=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/floc-300x197.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium size-medium\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/floc-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/floc.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" title=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce On Saturday, May 3, 2025, people from Northwest Ohio and the University of Michigan gathered for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee\u2019s (FLOC) peaceful March &amp; Rally for Immigration Reform in South Toledo. The group gathered with their poster boards, waving their red FLOC flags, and chanting in support of immigration reform<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11400,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_rtcl_gb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"wf_post_folders":[256],"class_list":["post-11398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"aioseo_notices":[],"rttpg_featured_image_url":{"full":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",700,480,false],"landscape":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",700,480,false],"portraits":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",700,480,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-300x206.jpg",300,206,true],"large":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",640,439,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",700,480,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",700,480,false],"rtcl-gallery":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-700x462.jpg",700,462,true],"rtcl-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-320x240.jpg",320,240,true],"rtcl-gallery-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-150x105.jpg",150,105,true],"psacp-medium":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy.jpg",500,343,false],"rpwe-thumbnail":["https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/Baldemar-and-Father-Notter-copy-45x45.jpg",45,45,true]},"rttpg_author":{"display_name":"LaPrensa Newspaper","author_link":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/author\/laprensa\/"},"rttpg_comment":0,"rttpg_category":"<a href=\"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/category\/articles\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Articles<\/a>","rttpg_excerpt":"By Dr. Linda Alvarado-Arce On Saturday, May 3, 2025, people from Northwest Ohio and the University of Michigan gathered for the Farm Labor Organizing Committee\u2019s (FLOC) peaceful March &amp; Rally for Immigration Reform in South Toledo. The group gathered with their poster boards, waving their red FLOC flags, and chanting in support of immigration reform","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11402,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11398\/revisions\/11402"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11398"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laprensanewspaper.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/wf_post_folders?post=11398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}