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...Marty puts so much time into coaching us," senior Annor Ackah said. "He also coaches for the national team, and he doesn't have to do anything for us. I know there are migrant workers who get paid more than he does...
...single culture, but cultures. And so it should, since diversity is better than monotony. In any case, many ethnic Americans are still exiles within the dominant, white matrix. One painter in this show, Martin Ramirez (1885-1960), epitomized the extreme fate of the Hispanic as outsider. A migrant railroad worker from Mexico, Ramirez lost his powers of speech and became a catatonic schizophrenic in Los Angeles in 1915, was committed in 1930 and spent the last three decades of his life in a California madhouse. There, he drew all the time. One could hardly imagine a more marginal existence...
...legal-aid attorneys say simply drafting lawyers is no answer. It could lead to inadequate representation by advocates who lack the conviction or specific legal skills to defend the poor. "How much help is a divorce lawyer to a farm worker poisoned by pesticides?" asks Edward Tuddenham of the Migrant Legal Action Program in Washington...
...daughter of a poor migrant worker family in McAllen, Texas, Rodriguez will become her family's first college graduate today. Rodriguez has five natural brothers and sisters, as well as seven step-brothers and sisters. She is a perfect example of the Harvard success story--disadvantaged kid makes good in the Ivies. But the going has not always been smooth...
...Solar now runs a radio station in California which he describes as "a forum for maintaining free speech." He also studies the effectiveness of migrant education programs and has worked as a reporter in Central America...