BEING WHO WE WANT OUR CHILDREN TO BECOME

As planting season is upon us soon, the issue of farming, work in the migrant community and social justice issues related to that life continue to haunt us as a country. Many students will study the great novel, Of Mice and Men as part of their literary education. There are several truth tellers who have a relationship to the issue of migrant workers, homelessness and poverty as well as living examples of how best and most justly to work with the farm worker.Woodie Guthrie sang and protested the rights of workers everywhere…Cesar Chavez’s fight for worker’s rights….Robert Kennedy’s fight against poverty and visit to the Appalachians….Dorothea Lange’s documentation of the poverty of her time as related to the workers’ lives…Winona LaDukeworks very hard to create a community that can grow food and thrive among the native peoples…Sister Lucy Poulin  works with homelessness and how to best combat its relentless presence in her community….Florence Reedwho is helping ensure that Central American farming is respectful of its people and the environment there….Emma Tenayuca who fought bravely for the rights of pecan workers…Diane Wilson who went to prison to fight for the shrimp boat work her family had done for generations…