Liza GrossImagine risking everything to leave your dirt poor Mexican village to find a job in the US to help your struggling parents. You speak an #Indigenous language, very little Spanish, no English and didn't know the US depends on your cheap labor to keep food prices low but deprives you of basic benefits while hanging the threat of deportation over your head.
When disaster strikes, as it will more and more with #climatechange, #farmworkers are left struggling to survive.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072023/california-indigenous-farm-workers-climate-dispossession/
When disaster strikes, as it will more and more with #climatechange, #farmworkers are left struggling to survive.
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/23072023/california-indigenous-farm-workers-climate-dispossession/
A Catastrophic Flood on California’s Central Coast Has Plunged Already Marginalized Indigenous Farmworkers Into Crisis - Inside Climate News
PAJARO, Calif.— It was half past midnight on March 11 when a cacophony of sirens and shouting jolted Emilio Vasquez and his family from a sound sleep. “Get out of your houses immediately!” a voice barked in Spanish through a bullhorn. “The water is coming!” Vasquez and his wife, undocumented Indigenous Mexican immigrants who speak […]
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