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How U.S. Exploitation of Farmworkers Helped Built its Food Systems
Hundreds of farmworkers and supporters march in protest in support of farmworkers’ rights. They hold signs saying "boycott Wendy's" and "Publix harvested with forced labor?"

How U.S. Exploitation of Farmworkers Helped Built its Food Systems

The irony of National Farmworker Awareness Week is that it is celebrated in a country that denies agricultural workers the legal and human rights offered to every other worker.

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1888 1082 Andrew Lee
How Anti-Filipino Hate Led to the Watsonville Riots
Two sepia-tone photographs of Filipino farm workers tending a field. On the left, workers put crop inside crates. One the right, a farm worker stands in a field of cauliflower.

How Anti-Filipino Hate Led to the Watsonville Riots

The Watsonville Riots was a violent attack on Filipino farmworkers by a mob of white residents in the city of Watsonville, California, between January 19 and January 30, 1930.

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2244 1172 Nicole Cardoza
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