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...their children's lives with care, as there are those who use their money to escape the obligation of dealing with their children at all. Coles, however, is more concerned with the ways that these children respond to their maids, New Orleans mob scenes in the '60s, and the migrant farm workers employed by their fathers...
...running away from home and took vows to do something with his life which would help these people; a few years later, however, he became good friends again with his father, leaving his idealistic ambitions behind. He was taught by his parents to stop asking questions about the migrant workers, and to save his thoughts for later...
CESAR CHAVEZ and the United Farm Workers Union are among the most recognizable symbols of organized labor in the United States. Since the mid-'60s, Chavez has led a mostly uphill fight against growers and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters for the rights of migrant agricultural laborers. That movement, which has met varying degrees of success, appears to be over for the time being, following Chavez's announcement two weeks ago of the end of the decade-old boycott of non-union lettuce, grapes and table wines. To millions of UFW sympathizers, the announcement came as a surprise, since there...
...children who work in the fields and groves of the west often migrate from one corporate farm to another in search of work. They arrive when the tomatoes, oranges, or onions are ripe and they leave at the end of the harvest. Because they are constantly on the move, migrant children receive inadequate, often fragmented educations. Homeless, helpless and poor, the migrant worker provides the back-breaking labor needed to harvest much of the food on America's tables...
...safety of the unique Indian cultures, languages and people. With the abrogation of all these treaties by North American governments and the massacres of peaceful Indian nations, the reservations have become concentration camps surrounded by armed guards. Indian people are new fed surplus army rations, and live in migrant-type housing, which frequently has no running water or plumbing facilities. Stark tarred shacks adorn barren, dusty streets littered with bottles and soda cans...