September 2007
KQED proudly celebrates the richness and diversity of the greater San Francisco Bay Area by commemorating Latino Heritage Month. KQED Public Radio proudly celebrates the diversity of our community with a special lineup in September.
KQED Public Radio celebra orgullosamente la diversidad de nuestra comunidad con
un arreglo de programas especiales en septiembre.
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Thursday, September 6, 8pm
Pastures a Plenty: A History of California's Farmworkers
"1900s to the Present: The Future of Farm Labor"
This four-part series explores the lives of farmworkers in California from statehood to the present. Through oral histories of workers and their descendants, historians and archival audio, we hear about how lives were built and sometimes broken in the fields of California.
What does it mean that the vast majority of California farm workers are illegal immigrants? As border control efforts close off the pipeline for workers, who grows the crops? Will a guest worker program be any different from the Bracero program? Is California's growing organic industry any more just to its workers? Where are the unions in all of this?
In this episode we hear from berry pickers and flower workers about border crossings, unions, immigration and living beneath the radar. Jim Hightower speaks about American farmworker policy, and we meet a farmer Delphina Corcoles, who has moved from being a farmworker to owning her own organic farm. We also hear from a college graduate who chose to go back to berry picking rather than leave the land and work in an office.
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