Crab Workers – Where does the crab meat you use in ceviche come from? If it’s from the United States, it is probably the product of temporary migrant workers’ labor. The Mexican women who work shelling crab and crawfish in the United States are often victims of deceitful recruitment, and they work long days, do not get paid for overtime or have regular breaks, according to labor rights activists. A migrant worker hired in Mexico to shell crab in North Carolina joins a labor rights activist to discuss the problem, in a recent edition of Radio Bilingüe’s national news talk show, Línea Abierta. Marco Vinicio González prepared a report with the material. This story is part of the series Voy Contratado: Migrant Rights.
A Family United by Music – Music brings the Peña-Govea family together across generations. Decades ago, the grandmother of the family started a group that played Mexican and Latin American music in California’s Central Valley. The mother used to sing the music of the Appalachian Mountains, returning to the roots of the land of her mother. And the father sang protest music in college. The couple taught their two daughters to play accordion and trumpet from a very young age, and now everyone in the family plays cumbia, Norteña music, Tex-Mex, and a large repertoire of other traditional Latin American music. Fernando Andrés Torres has this story about these three generations of extraordinary musicians in California. Juan Santiago also contributed to this story, which is part of the series Raíces: Stories About Grassroots Artists.
