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Host: Shawn Spruce
Itinerant farm work means putting in long, hard hours. It’s a job most people pass up. But it’s long been an avenue for employment for people from south of the U.S. border. Numbers are hard to come by, but one survey found the number of Indigenous farmworkers in California alone reached 140,000. On a day set aside to recognize noted farmworker advocate Cesar Chavez, we’ll get a better understanding of the role Indigenous people play in working the nation’s agricultural economy.
GUESTS
Chuy Martinez, cultural activist and a co-founder of the Recuerda a César Chávez Committee
Matt Nelson, executive director of Presente.org
Felipe Guevara, workers’ rights attorney at the New Mexico Center on Law and Poverty
Rosalinda Guillen, founder of Community to Community
BREAK MUSIC (BROADCAST ONLY)
Break 1: People of the Sun (song) Rage Against the Machine (artist) Evil Empire (album)
Break 2: 10000 Generations (song) Khu.éex’ (artist)
