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"Every year there are more than 400,000 American children who are torn away from their friends, schools, and homes to pick the food we all eat. Zulema, Perla, and Victor labor as migrant farm workers, sacrificing their own childhoods to help their families survive. Follow these three as they journey from the scorching heat of Texas' onion fields to the winter snows of the Michigan apple orchards and back south to the humidity of Florida's tomato fields...
5) Food chains
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A powerful true story of one small group of workers overcoming corporate greed to end slavery and abuse in America's fields.
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Presents a brief biography of Cesar Chavez, describing the life and accomplishments of the Mexican American labor leader who founded the United Farm Workers union to promote better wages and working conditions for migrants and other farm workers. Includes photographs.
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A farmworker sneaks across the border from Mexico into California in an effort to make money to send to his family back home. It is a story that happens every day, told here in an uncompromising, groundbreaking work of realism from American independent filmmaker Robert M. Young. Vivid and spare where other films about illegal immigration might sentimentalize, Young's take on the subject is equal parts intimate character study and gripping road movie,...