In February, Oregon legislators will return to Salem for their even-year short session. Reyna Lopez is ready.
Months ago, the executive director of the Woodburn-based farmworkers union Pineros Y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste had crafted a legislative strategy to press for higher wages for farmworkers and secure their collective bargaining rights.
Then more than 2,000 of her fellow Woodburn residents disappeared — abducted by masked thugs carrying guns and badges…