"After introducing herself to the crowd in her native Mixteco, Margarita Garcia, another farmworker, highlighted the importance of workers having access to emergency safety information in their native languages.
'What is it like to hear Mixteco and not understand what I’m saying?' she asked those gathered around. 'That’s what it feels like when they talk about our rights in languages that we don’t understand.'”
~ N. Chavez & B. Swindell
"Local labor advocates, wine industry coalition square off over farmworker safeguards" https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/local-farmworkers-share-hardships-during-rally-for-emergency-protections/
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