On the March 30th edition of Your Call, we will mark Cesar Chavez Day by talking about the plight of farmers in the US and Mexico. Over 50,000 workers in the Mexican border state of Baja, California are striking over low pay and poor conditions. What are their demands and how can we support them? Join the conversation on the next Your Call, with Rose Aguilar and you.
Guests:
Bruce Neuburger, former farmworker and author of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of California
Fritz Conle, organizer for Teamsters Local 890 in Salinas
Seth Holmes, assistant professor of medical anthropology & public health at UC Berkeley, and author of Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States
Web Resources:
WLRN: What's it like to be a migrant farmworker? One anthropologist lived and worked alongside them
The Daily Gazette: Photographer reveals farm workers' struggle in modern Dust Bowl
Think Progress: Labor Unions Move To Protect Immigrants, Regardless Of Legal Status
LA Times: Harvesting solutions: How to address the plight of farmworkers in Mexico
LA Times: Baja farm workers push for more pay
Mother Jones: The People Who Pick Your Organic Strawberries Have Had It With Rat-Infested Camps