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...gaijin home- run king with the Tokyo Giants. The transformation of baseball to fit Japanese cultural norms is familiar terrain for anyone who has read Robert Whiting's You Gotta Have Wa. With Whiting as his co-author, Cromartie illustrates the insidious ways the Japanese both honor and humiliate migrant American ballplayers. "We were constantly being watched," Cromartie complains. "We had to submit ourselves to incessant badgering and nitpicking, which began in camp and continued all year long. That was Japanese-style quality control...
...backs two nines. He pulls a third nine, but his opponent gets a third queen. Television crews have filmed almost every hand he has played. Now he's gone. Dewey Tomko, who came in second here a few years ago, used to be a kindergarten teacher for migrant workers' children in Florida. He would stay up all night playing poker, he admits shyly, and when his class took its nap, he would take one too, on his very own mat, sometimes waking up long after the mammas had collected the kids. Tomko quit teaching and became a world-class poker...
...world has a profound impact on almost every American's life. From foreign ownership of manufacturing plants to migrant labor to the state of the global environment, Americans--even the worker in Kansas--are part of a larger system than the U.S.A. We let ordinary people in other countries have that knowledge, why can't we give it to the worker in Kansas...
Joel Rubinstein, a regional director of Amnesty International, will describe broadly the extent of human rights abuses in Hispanic societies worldwide, and Iris S. Gomez, a lecturer in law at Boston University, will discuss the plight of migrant workers in the Mexican border area...
...Sometimes we forget what it's like for many of us who were left behind and didn't get to come to this university, whether [they] be political prisoners in Cuba or Chile or migrant workers living in spider holes in Southern California," he said...