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Episode 94: Edgar Franks, Empowering Farmworkers with Familias Unidas por La Justicia


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Episode #94 Notes

:30 The political-economic context for farm workers in the US, and its exclusion from labor laws.

3:00 How does immigration policy related to farm worker rights?

6:00 Where do a lot of farm workers come from in the US?

8:30 On agriculture in the Skagit Valley in Washington State.

12:30 On recent farm worker labor unrest and organizing in Washington State.

20:00 How have farm workers been treated during COVID?

27:00 How has climate change and extreme heat impacted farm workers?

33:00 How are farm workers organizing around food soverignty?

40:00 Closing thoughts.

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