Friday, March 27, 2015

Baja Washington

http://agr.wa.gov/pestfert/natresources/aglanduse.aspx

"Starting in the 1970s many of Baja California’s workers began to cross the U.S. border through California into the Central Valley, and even to states like Washington. 'These are all connected communities,' maintained Bacon, which is why the San Quintín strike is big news among farmworker communities in the U.S. such as Washington’s Skagit County.

Sadly, it is not very big news elsewhere in the U.S. When the strike began last week, the Los Angeles Times was the only English-language media outlet in the country to initially cover it. (Since then, a week later, The Associated Press and others have begun to report on the strike.)"

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/why_mexicos_farmworkers_who_harvest_our_food_are_on_strike_20150326

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