Category Archives: Farmworkers

In Guatemala, Ethnic Cleansing Moves from the Village to the Courtroom

Posted on 11/04/2022 by Janice Jayes

If you want to see what ethnic cleansing looks like in the 21st century, take a trip to Guatemala. Don’t just stay at the charming eco-lodge by the lake under the volcanoes, however, because you might fly home with a … Continue reading →

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On the Front Lines of the Climate Crisis: Our Farmworkers Face Heat’s Deadly Dangers

Posted on 09/23/2021 by Pat Simpson

Heat kills, and it kills farmworkers with distressing regularity. The list of the dead includes migrants like 17-year-old Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez in the grape fields of California; 38-year-old Francisco Perez working in a tree nursery outside Portland; Miguel Angel … Continue reading →

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