WEDNESDAY, MAY 24
PROGRAM # 8073 12:00 PM PST.
“Chasing the Harvest.”
A new book of oral histories captures the rarely heard voice of farmworkers, the workers who are at the bottom of the US labor ladder. They tell stories of hardship, survival and triumph in the daily life of fieldworkers; they share their dreams, anxieties, and struggles. This is a conversation with the independent journalist and author who gathered the compelling stories for the book “Chasing the Harvest: Migrant Workers in California Agriculture.”
Guest: Gabriel Thompson, Editor, “Chasing the Harvest,” Oakland, CA; Heraclio Aspete, Former Sheepherder, Narrator in the Book, Bakersfield, CA.
“In the Fields of the North.” In his new book, photojournalist David Bacon combines photos and oral histories to document the experience of migrant farmworkers who live and work in California and Washington State. Fieldworkers who follow jobs from harvest to harvest give a vivid portrait of what it’s like to live as a migrant on the road, under tarps, near fields contaminated with hazardous pesticides, and with an uncertain future.
Guest: David Bacon, Author, In the Fields of the North, Oakland, CA.
Photo: voiceofwitness.org
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