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Harvard-Radcliffe Raza, President; IOP, Student Advisory Committee; PBH Migrant Farm Workers Committee, Vice-Chair; Harvard Foundation on Race Relations and Intercultural Affairs. Horisons, Co-Founder...
...banning of grapes on campus in response to accusations that migrant workers are mistreated by California grape farmers...
...talking about migrant farm workers or roustabouts following the latest oil gusher," says University of Southern California geographer Thomas Jablonsky. "These are people with degrees, in their 30s or 40s, with some money and property, in midcareer with professional ambitions -- the very people who would have flocked to L.A. in the past." With them the state loses the economic value of their skills and the social value of their activism in the communities where they would be raising families. "They will be missed, absolutely," Jablonsky adds. "Southern California seems to be losing some of the leading talent of the 21st...
...pageant of American history has always looked rather different to the descendants of slaves than it does to descendants of slave owners. Not surprisingly, it also appears less than festive to the descendants of conquered natives, exploited migrant workers or Chinese railroad coolies. To them the vital history lesson is not the myth embodied in the Statue of Liberty but the reality of immigration laws that sharply restricted the chances of Hispanic and Asians. They value less the dazzling engineering feat of the transcontinental railroad than the abuse of laborers. They see the culture that shaped America...
...addition to the lectures, the conference includes a traditional Thanksgiving dinner, a Mexican dinner, a talent show, three parties, a Migrant Farm Worker Committee meeting and a Gay/Lesbian meeting...