Posts Tagged ‘immigration’

Photo of NC DREAM Team – La Conexión

Local Spanish newspaper La Conexión published a photo I took on the front page of their Feb. 27 issue. The accompanying article discusses the attack on DACA-approved youth who, at the time, were being denied their drivers licenses. I took the photo at a rally outside of the NCDOT in January organized by Mayra Torres [...]

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Restaurant workers find respite in late-night soccer tournament – Big Bite: Independent Weekly

Burlington, Mebane and 11 other towns are located in Alamance County, an area notorious for harsh immigration laws and practices. “You coexist with people that may not understand you,” says restaurant worker and soccer player Cesar Arturo Flores Valadez. But on a day of a soccer game, he adds, “nothing bothers you. You wake up [...]

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Migrant labor affects what’s on your plate

The food on our tables– sweet potatoes, tomatoes, cucumbers, lettuce, chicken, pork and more — come from hands tied to a cycle of repression and injustice. Supporting that is a variety of indirectly connected societal behaviors. Among them: consumer choices, discriminatory legal policies and community prejudice.

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Who’s picking your food? – Independent Weekly

For this week’s INDY, I wrote an article exploring North Carolina’s hidden labor force: children working the fields. Almost half a million children are working in the fields in the United States. This week is also National Farmworker Awareness Week. Due to lack of space in the paper, a few excerpts didn’t make the edit. I’ve [...]

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Hungry for a D.R.E.A.M.

When it comes to food, my friends share my obsession. My fondest recent food memories include moments with my friends in Carrboro, or La Banda, as we’ve dubbed ourselves, gathered around an oven adding spices and herbs (and our “two cents”) onto a leg of lamb,  standing at a kitchen table spreading cookies with dulce [...]

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