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Arts
fromColossal
2 days ago

In Cardboard and Gold, Narsiso Martinez Highlights the Workers of American Agriculture

Narsiso Martinez uses discarded produce boxes as artistic canvases to highlight the invisible labor and devalued workers sustaining American agriculture and food systems.
Agriculture
from48 hills
4 days ago

When you eat broccolini, remember the farmworkers who harvest it for you - 48 hills

A 1963 train-truck collision killed 32 bracero workers near Salinas, sparking outrage that led to the bracero program's termination two years later.
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US politics
fromLos Angeles Times
3 months ago

Hard lives in California's fields: 'The American dream eats us alive'

An American novice struggles harvesting cantaloupes alongside seasoned Mexican immigrant laborers enduring intense heat, long hours, camaraderie, and exposure to immigration enforcement.
fromIntelligencer
4 months ago

Trump's Mass-Deportation Mania May Boost Food Prices

If you want the briefest possible explanation of why Democrats lost the presidency and Congress in 2024, it was because swing voters cared a lot about inflation and the politicians running the country decided to talk about everything else. Yes, they had talking points about inflation, but they were mostly defensive (it wasn't as bad as it had been, it was due to circumstances beyond anyone's control, etc.). And they decided to try to force people to think instead about their issues, such as abortion rights and the threat Donald Trump posed to democracy. It didn't work.
US politics
Environment
fromThe Mercury News
5 months ago

Letters: Put fire safety focus on neighborhoods, not backcountry

Wildfire protection should prioritize neighborhoods, homes, and people through defensible space, ember-resistant materials, and community mitigation rather than distant forest thinning.
fromwww.cbc.ca
6 months ago

Poilievre calls for temporary foreign worker program to be scrapped | CBC News

The Liberals have to answer, 'Why is it that they are shutting our own youth out of jobs and replacing them with low-wage, temporary foreign workers from poor countries who are ultimately being exploited,'
Canada news
Agriculture
fromLos Angeles Times
6 months ago

Commentary: Can homegrown teens replace immigrant farm labor? In 1965, the U.S. tried

The A-TEAM initiative aimed to recruit high school athletes for agricultural work during a labor shortage in the 1960s.
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