'American Agitators' screening in Watsonville Friday, USDA will stop publishing food insecurity data

KAZU | By Elena Neale-Sacks

Published September 23, 2025 at 5:00 AM PDT

A young man in a blue shirt carries two bags of oranges towards a food bank recipient that is wearing a hoodie with their back towards the camera holding a brown cardboard tray with green vegetables. — A Second Harvest volunteer loads oranges onto a cardboard tray for one of the nearly 90 farmworkers that came to a monthly food distribution event organized by the Center for Farmworker Families in May 2025.

In today's newscast, Indivisible Pájaro Valley and the Watsonville Film Festival are screening the documentary American Agitators this Friday. Plus, the U.S. Department of Agriculture will stop publishing data on food insecurity—a problem that affects tens of thousands of people on the Central Coast.

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Elena Neale-Sacks

Elena is an Emmy award-winning researcher, reporter, and producer. Before joining KAZU, they worked as a podcast producer at The Oregonian. Their reporting and research has been featured on NPR, KQED, Netflix, Reveal, CalMatters, and more. Elena is an alum of the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and UC Santa Cruz. You can reach them at elena@kazu.org.

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