.julito77: Once again, America’s farmworkers — or, better stated, America’s immigrant and Latino farmworkers — get ignored.
right now. The prospect, however, seems bleak, given how polarized and partisan Congress is.
Congress could pass farmworker protection bills right now. The prospect, however, seems bleak, given how polarized and partisan Congress is.as the Bracero Program , a 1942 agreement that allowed Mexican guest farmworkers to fill a labor shortage caused by World War II, tolerated inhumane conditions that persist today. After bringing in guest workers, exploiting undocumented workers and benefiting from cheap labor, in the 1950s, the U.S. government conducted. Such a pattern clearly demonstrated how much Americans thought of low-wage workers: You can pick our food, but you won’t ever earn the right to live a life worthy of such work.
These patterns keep repeating, and those dismissive attitudes still resonate in places like the Coachella Valley. If only there was a major high-grossing music festival with some of the world’s biggest stars that could briefly put aside its focus on mass spectacle and use its impact to shine more light on what is happening right next door to it. Maybe then things would actually change.
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