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Dec. 1, 2008

Fresno Judge Draws on His Background Protesting Conditions of Farmworkers

As a farm worker, Rosendo Peña was incarcerated for picketing in protest of working conditions. Thirty-five years later he's a Fresno County judge.

Read more about Rosendo Peña Jr....
By Fiona Smith
Daily Journal Staff Writer

FRESNO - Spending close to two weeks in jail was not easy for Rosendo Peña Jr., but, like hundreds of others pushing to improve conditions for farmworkers in California, he felt he was on the right side of the law.

It was 35 years ago when Peña, now a Fresno County Superior Court judge, spent his summer between high school and college picketing Central Valley farms to demand decent working conditio... (continued)

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