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Delano Manongs, a film by Marissa Aroy
The Delano Manongs tells the story of farm labor organizer Larry Itliong and a group of Filipino farm workers who instigated one of the American farm labor movement’s finest hours – The Delano Grape...
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Home again in Mexico: Illegal immigration hits net zero
Tiny Tamaula is the new face of rural Mexico: Villagers are home again as the illegal immigration boom drops to net zero By Sara Miller Llana, Christian Science Monitor Staff writer / April 8, 2012...
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Libya is a lure for migrants, where exploitation waits, from the Los Angeles...
African immigrants lie in a makeshift detention center in Gharyan, Libya, south of the capital, Tripoli. (Mahmud Turkia, AFP/Getty Images) Libya’s relative wealth draws many Africans seeking a better...
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Deported to Mexico, a father hopes for custody
Felipe and Marie Montes hold one of their three boys; their youngest was born after Felipe was deported to Mexico. (AP) His three boys are back in North Carolina, where foster parents want to adopt...
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Immigrant Teens Dare Authorities To Deport Them, from Bloomberg Businessweekly
Mexican migrant workers harvest organic parsley at Grant Family Farms in Wellington, Colorado By Elizabeth Dwoskin on April 16, 2012 from...
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Fair Food: Field to Table
The Project “Fair Food: Field to Table” is a multimedia presentation promoting a more socially just food system in the U.S. It was created by California Institute for Rural Studies and Rick Nahmias...
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COMMON GROUND ON THE KILL FLOOR – ORGANIZING SMITHFIELD by David Bacon
Interviews and Photos by David Bacon Labornote website http://labornotes.org/blogs/2012/04/common-ground-kill-floor-organizing-smithfield Keith Ludlum and Terry Slaughter are two slaughterhouse workers...
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Homeland: Immigration in America, PBS Video
http://www.pbs.org/programs/homeland-immigration-america/ http://video.pbs.org/video/2260883032 http://video.pbs.org/video/2258259814 HOMELAND: IMMIGRATION IN AMERICA presents the story of new...
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Thinking about Jeff Tagami (1954 – 2012)
at the end of the video, by the bowl of steaming cauliflower, she takes the lid off the pot of rice— This is from the memorial website about Jeff, with posts by writers who knew him better than I did,...
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Oaxacalifornia (1994) directed by Sylvia Stevens
REVIEWS : Walking Between Two Worlds in ‘Oaxacalifornia’ January 03, 1995|ROBERT KOEHLER | SPECIAL TO THE TIMES Go to Oaxaca, in the heart of Mexico, and you’ll hear about Monte Alban, one of the...
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Bus Stop Dreaming at MOCA-Tucson, Saturday Sept. 29
Saturday, September 29 Bus Stop Dreaming (excerpts) as part of INDEBTED / ENDUEDADO Museum of Contemporary Art – Tucson 7:30 pm – 9:30 pm Museum of Contemporary Art 265 South Church Avenue Tucson, AZ...
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Deportees to Mexico’s Tamaulipas preyed upon by gangs
Not even a church-run shelter is safe for migrants sent back to a dangerous region of Mexico by the United States. Viewed as rich targets, the deportees are vulnerable to kidnapping — and worse....
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Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
Juan Gonzalez, Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America (New York:Viking Penguin, 2000), 346 pp., $27.95 cloth, $15 paper. Immigrant labor has always been critical to the Market’s...
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Happy Birthday, Joe Hill
see also http://www.pbs.org/wnet/getupstandup/music_preacher2.html and the Wobblies:
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“Homeland: Immigration in America” 2012 video on PBS
http://video.pbs.org/program/homeland-immigration-america/ America has always been a nation of immigrants. Throughout our history, there have been times where immigration has been perceived as a...
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Domestic Workers Bill Of Rights In California, AB889, Vetoed By Gov. Jerry Brown
SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Gov. Jerry Brown on Sunday announced that he had vetoed legislation that would have provided overtime pay, meal breaks and other labor protections to an estimated 200,000...
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Chicano! a 4 part PBS Documentary (1996)
Part 1, “Quest for a Homeland,” examines the beginnings of the movement by profiling Reies Lopez Tijerina and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1966 and 1967. It shows how Tijerina’s fight to...
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