FARM WORKERS ON STRIKE AGAINST WISH FARMS
GUADALUPE, CA – 13JUNE23 – Strawberry workers went on strike against Wish Farms, a large berry grower in Santa Maria and Lompoc, for two days. They demanded that the company stop cutting piece rates, and live up to promises of better pay.
The workers rallied in front of the company office in Guadalupe, a small farmworker town near Santa Maria on the central coast. After trying unsuccessfully to negotiate with the company manager on the phone, they went to a nearby strawberry field and called on the workers there to leave and join the strike. Some did, before the company called the sherriff.
Workers then went back to the company office where they continued meeting. The company eventually agreed to raise the wages, and workers went back to work the following day. They decided to keep organizing a union, which they called Freseros por la Justicia, or Strawberry Workers for Justice.
Most pickers are indigenous Mixtec migrants from Oaxaca and southern Mexico, but who now live in the U.S. The company also brings in contract H-2A contract workers from Mexico. The strike was supported by the Mixteco Indigenous Community Organizing Project. People who want to support the workers can contact Fernando Martinez, (805) 940-5528, fernando.martinez@mixteco.org
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PHOTO EXHIBITION / EXPOSICION DE FOTOS
Mas Que un Muro/More than a Wall
Photographs by David Bacon / Fotografias por David Bacon
International Meeting on Human Mobility 2023
Encuentro internacional sobre movilidad humana 2023
Museo Nacional de las Culturas del Mundo
Moneda 13, Centro Histórico
Centro, Cuauhtémoc
06000 Ciudad de México
CDMX, Mexico
Opening – Conversation with David Bacon and Jason De Leon
Inauguracion – Conversatorio con David Bacon y Jason De Leon
«Between the hope and the pain: narratives of migration on the Mexico/U.S. border»
«Entre la esperanza y el dolor: narrativas de la migracion en la fronter Mexico-Estados Unidos»
Tuesday/martes, July 11/11 de julio, 7PM
WHEN WE SPOKE OUT AGAINST WAR –
Unearthing the history of protest against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
Photographs © by David Bacon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/56646659@N05/52759801492/in/album-72177720306862427/
MORE THAN A WALL / MAS QUE UN MURO
More Than a
Wall / Mas que Un Muro explores the many aspects of the border region
through photographs taken by David Bacon over a period of 30 years.
These photographs trace the changes in the border wall itself, and the
social movements in border communities, factories and fields. This
bilingual book provides a reality check, to allow us to see the border
region as its people, with their own history of movements for rights and
equality, and develop an alternative vision in which the border can be a
region where people can live and work in solidarity with each other. –
Gaspar Rivera-Salgado
David Bacon has given us, through his beautiful portraits, the plight of
the American migrant worker, and the fierce spirit of those who provide
and bring to us comfort and sustenance. — Lila Downs
Published by El
Colegio de la Frontera Norte with support from the UCLA Institute for
Labor Research and Education and the Center for Mexican Studies, the
Werner Kohlstamm Family Fund, and the Green Library at Stanford
University
Price: $35 plus postage and handling
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«The «border» is just a line. It’s the people who matter.» – JoAnn Intili, director, The Werner-Kohnstamm Family Fund
IN THE FIELDS OF THE NORTH / EN LOS CAMPOS DEL NORTE
Photographs and text by David Bacon
University of California Press / Colegio de la Frontera Norte
302 photographs, 450pp, 9”x9”
paperback, $34.95 (in the U.S.)
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En Mexico se puede pedir el libro en el sitio de COLEF:
https://www.colef.mx
Los Angeles Times reviews In the Fields of the North / En los Campos del Norte – click here