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Chinese Farmers Battle for Wages Amid Glamour of Silicon Valley
by Jamilah King on February 28 2013, 9:15AM
When most people think about Silicon Valley, they don’t think about farmers. Agricultural work seems almost like the antithesis of the Googles and Apples of the world. But a new piece published by Hyphen Magazine exposes the hardships faced by…
Topics: /NOW Blog
The New and Improved ‘God Made a Farmer’ Ads
by Jorge Rivas on February 6 2013, 3:32PM
“We saw Dodge’s ‘God Made A Farmer’ ad and we thought it didn’t reflect the whole picture. So we gave it a bit of a fix,” reads the description for the video uploaded to the Brave New Foundation’s YouTube channel. The video…
Topics: Immigration, /NOW Blog
Latino Farmers Breaking Barriers in Midwest
by Jorge Rivas on February 5 2013, 1:22PM
PRI’s “The World” reporter Anna Boiko-Weyrauch reports on a new U.S. government project is supporting immigrant farmers.
Here’s What the Super Bowl Farmer Ad Left Out
by Jorge Rivas on February 4 2013, 11:16AM
There is growing ethnic and racial diversity among farm operators nationwide, and the percentage of women operators is up.
‘The Garden’ Sows Seeds of Struggle
by Debayani Kar on December 26 2009, 12:22PM
The Garden is a warmly portrayed moving documentary film that follows the real-life story of the South Central Farmers Cooperative in Los Angeles. The well-publicized fight of the farmers to maintain control of their land lent itself as an ideal…
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