Like Outlaws, Like Rustlers, Like Thieves
David Bacon writes: "'They chase us like outlaws, like rustlers, like thieves.' Those were the words Woody Guthrie used to describe the braceros of the 1940s, as he sang about the plane carrying them back to the Mexican border, which fell out of the sky over Los Gatos Canyon, killing all the nameless deportees aboard. Today Congress is creating more workers displaced like the braceros of old. Legislators would push them into the mobile global workforce, while at the same time, proposing immigration laws ensuring that they will still be the excluded outlaws and deportees of Guthrie's song."
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061307N.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Bacon
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/061307N.shtml
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=David+Bacon
rudkla - 13. Jun, 18:09
