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COMMENTARY: How COVID-19 Stole My Life
I was just hired on for a new job that started just three months ago. I should say that it took me more time to acquire this job than the amount of time it took for COVID-19 to snatch it from my hands.
COMMENTARY: The agricultural immigrant conundrum in Europe and the U.S.
By Profe. Gonzalo Santos
The vital, indispensable, highly valuable role “guest” foreign farm workers play in the food supply of Europe has now become evident, demonstrating that their customary low status, criminalization, and stigmatization is entirely a social construction, artificially imposed on these hard workers so as to super-exploit them, keep them from asserting their labor rights, anddiscard them as a cheap, flexible, disposable “factor of production.”
COMMENTARY: To survive the Coronavirus, Americans must learn from Mexicans
BY DR. ÁLVARO HUERTA
During the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the U.S. (and beyond), it behooves Americans to learn from individuals of Mexican origin in el norte about the art of survival in a time of crisis.
COMMENTARY: Living in crisis has been people’s ‘normal’ for generations; why wait for pandemic to do something about it?
Before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of low-income, undocumented, and other marginalized communities had been living paycheck to paycheck and struggling financially to make ends meet for their families.
Quedarse en Casa lo Ayudará a Mantenerse Sano Durante la Pandemia de Covid-19
Evitemos que la Crisis de Covid-19 EmpeorePor Reyna Oláguez, South Kern Sol
La semana pasada, el gobernador Newsom emitió una directiva para restringir a los californianos a abandonar sus hogares, excepto para ir al supermercado, a la farmacia, para buscar atención médica o para ir a un trabajo que se considera esencial.
COMMENTARY: Stay Home, Stay Safe During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Last week Governor Newsom issued a directive to restrict Californians from leaving their homes except to go to the grocery store, pharmacy, to seek medical care, or to commute to a job that is considered essential.