Episode 24: Why Don't Farmworkers' Lives Matter?
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Farmworkers are perhaps the most essential workers, responsible for providing the nation’s food supply. Yet their experience of poverty, hunger, pesticide exposure, sexual assault, and illness describes an exploited population of discardable human beings. Listen in as Dr. Ann Lopez, Executive Director of Center for Farmworker Families talks with Sac State Sociology Professor Manuel Barajas about why farmworkers’ lives don't matter.
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