Dispatch from the Border -
Anti-Immigrant Debate Nested In Capitol Hill, While Arrests and Deportations Terrorize Immigrant Communities
By Carlos Marentes, Border Agricultural Workers Project (El Paso, TX)
Excerpted from the July 2007 Food Sovereingty E-Newsletter of the National Family Farm Coalition - for a full copy of the newsletter, visit: http://www.nffc.net/
While national debate on immigration reform continues after a disasterous hault in negotiations on Capitol Hill, the US Department of Homeland Security has intensified a campaign to hunt, arrest and deport undocumented workers and their families. read more
Immigration 101 - Myth vs Reality
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Down on the Farm - Dairy Farm Workers Fight for Their Rights in Oregon
Z Magazine, Dec. 2004
By: John E. Peck
In a now infamous backroom deal hatched between the American Federation of Labor (AFL), the Farm Bureau, southern white segregationists, and new deal democrats, farm workers and domestic servants were specifically excluded from the right to engage in activities of mutual aid, protection, and collective bargaining as extended to other U.S. workers under the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Starting in WWII and through the mid 1960s the infamous “Bracero” program also facilitated the recruitment of close to four million seasonal farm workers from Mexico into the U.S. as a cheap labor option for agribusiness. This exploitable throwaway labor force persists today... read more...
