Farmworkers Journey-An Interview with author, Ann Lopez

by Christina Aanestad

Thu, Aug 30, 2007 12:41PM

Dr. Ann Lopez, author of the Farmworkers Jouney, discusses her new book and expereince researching NAFTA for teh past 10 + years. Lopez discusses, NAFTA, immigration and women farm workers, in this Labor Day special for Women's Magazine.

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Dr. Ann Lopez discusses NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement and it's impacts on farmers from West Central Mexico. Hear stories about a 60 year old grandmother who risks asphyxiation to travel across the border to visit her "illegal immigrant" farm worker son. Hear of the struggles women migrant farm workers face working and living in Santa Cruz and Monterey County and how neoliberal trade policies often force Mexican farm workers to migrate into California's corporate agricultural fields.

This 20 minute interview with Dr. Lopez will be aired September 5th for a Labor Day special on Women's Magazine 1-2pm, 94.1fm.

A full one hour interview on NAFTA's impacts on Mexican farmworker communities will be aired on KZYX, in Mendocino County, 90.7fm and 91.5fm on Labor Day, Monday September 3rd from 6-7pm. http://www.kzyx.org

§The Farmworkers' Journey

by Ann Lopez

Fri, Aug 31, 2007 10:13AM

Hi Christina,

You did a fabulous job with this interview! It's so right on in its focus on women's issues!

Thank-you so much for doing this!

Would be interested in the comments of others.

Also, will you tape the 1hr. program on 9/3? Would love to hear it. Or, will it be on IndyMedia?

Many blessings, and so much gratitude,
Dr. Ann

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§great interview

by balaam

Thu, Sep 6, 2007 5:36AM

the situations Dr Lopez describes are horrifying... and in a way unnecessary - not caused by any natural disaster or failing internal to these women's culture... just the (by)product of the organised greed that governs so much of the world.

balaam

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