Communities Without Borders

by Bacon, David

• ISBN13: 9780801444999
• ISBN10: 0801444993
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-01
• Publisher: Ilr Pr

Summary

"When we finally arrived at my brother's house in the United States, I thought about how far I was from home in Mexico. I looked back, saw the sun setting, and thought about my father and what he might be doing. I thought, 'Why did I come so far, and how

Table of Contents

Foreword on the Text	p. ix
Foreword on the Photography	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Globalizing Farm Labor: Oaxacans Create a New Kind of Cross-Border Community	p. 1
	p. 37
Fausto Lopez: The man in the reeds	p. 38
Lorenzo Oropeza: A community organizer	p. 40
	p. 41
Rufino Dominguez: Organizing across the border	p. 43
Raul Dominguez: A grape worker	p. 46
Irma Luna: Keeping Mixteco alive	p. 47
Oralia Maceda: Changing the way Mixtecos see women and young people	p. 49
Jorge Giron Cortez and Margarita de Giron: Sacrificing for your family	p. 52
	p. 54
Florentina Sandoval-Garcia: Why my father went to prison	p. 56
Salomon Luis Alvarado-Juarez: The law student	p. 57
Raul Ramirez Baena: The human rights prosecutor	p. 59
	p. 61
Paola Angela Galindo: Her daughter died in the desert	p. 62
Centolia Maldonado: How I became conscious	p. 63
Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez: Running for office and getting arrested	p. 65
Transforming Nebraska: Guatemalan and Mexican Meatpacking Workers-Indigenous Culture and Social Movements in a Cross-Border Community	p. 69
	p. 105
Sergio Sosa: An immigrant organizer	p. 106
Concepcion Vargas: A meatpacking worker	p. 109
Manuel Flores: Chased from work by the migra	p. 111
Marcela Cervantes: Organizing women in the meatpacking plants	p. 113
	p. 115
Tiberio Chavez: Always look for something better	p. 116
Olga Espinoza: I say I can do everything	p. 118
Eleuterio Valadez: Twenty-five years on the skin line	p. 120
Gustavo: The story of a raid	p. 122
Jose Guzman: Hiding in the air-conditioning duct	p. 123
Antonio Hernandez: The struggle to get papers	p. 124
	p. 127
Jesus Martinez: We must not forget the people of Guatemala	p. 128
Domingo Cristobal Diego: We are citizens of the world	p. 129
Francisco Gaspar: Bringing marimbas to Nebraska	p. 130
	p. 132
Juan Mateo Juandiego: The marimba maker	p. 133
Mateo Juandiego: The son who didn't make marimbas	p. 134
Omar: The story of a coyote	p. 137
Nicolas Francisco: The hotel owner	p. 139
Alonso de Alonso Pedro and Octavio Andres Esteban: Two brothers	p. 140
Emilia Juanantonio: Women are worth more than men	p. 141
Lorenzo Francisco: My children need my presence	p. 143
	p. 145
Mateo Pedro Bartolo: The church council president	p. 146
Bishop Rodolfo Bobadilla: The bishop of Huehuetenango	p. 147
Miners and Mayos: Gold and Copper Mining Towns and Indigenous Mayo Communities in Northern Sonora	p. 149
	p. 173
Antonio Rivera Murrieta: I am transnational	p. 174
Alfredo Figueroa: Forming a Chicano identity	p. 176
	p. 179
Juan Gonzales: A blacklisted miner	p. 180
Javier Canizares: A Cananea striker	p. 181
Gabriel Parra Cortez: A miners' union leader	p. 183
Jerry Acosta: Bringing food across the border to help the strikers	p. 184
Genaro Sanchez Camacho: I was there when the caravan arrived	p. 186
Moises Espinoza Valenzuela: Mining families worked on both sides of the border	p. 186
Jesus Morales Tapia: A mountain of tailings	p. 188
	p. 190
Hector Moroyoqui Juzcameya: A Mayo high school teacher	p. 191
Marina Moroyoqui Ramirez: The delegate of a Mayo community	p. 193
Clemente Lopez Valenzuela: The president of the fiestas	p. 194
Ismael Cupicio Cota: Mexico is not poor	p. 195
Pamfilo Lopez Ozuna: The deer dancer	p. 197
Braceros and Guest Workers: A Hard Past, A Harder Future	p. 201
	p. 219
Agustin Ramirez: A union organizer	p. 220
Rigoberto Garcia Perez: A bracero	p. 224
Celestino and Amelia Garcia: A bracero and his wife	p. 226
Eusebio Melero: From bracero to undocumented	p. 228
	p. 229
Edilberto Morales: A survivor of a terrible accident	p. 231
Florinda Sanchez Perez and Natividad Maldonado Domingo: Two women widowed by an accident	p. 232
Esteban: A modern-day bracero	p. 234
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