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    State must give highest consideration to the welfare of the landless farmers and farmworkers to promote social justice and to move the nation toward sound rural development and industrialization‚ and the establishment of owner cultivatorship of economic-size farms as the basis of Philippine agriculture ■ Land-to-the-tiller remains the core doctrine in the implementation of the CARP. (Farmers and regular farmworkers who directly own and collectively till the land have the right to own it). ■ Land

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    problem that needs to be understood and the barrier that should overcome in order to provide effective health care.” (153 Holmes). Holmes basically refers that the problem still is racism and the way that these farmworkers are dealt with when they go into clinics and also how these migrant farmworkers lack the language. The way people are trained in Mexico and the United States are truly very different. The ways that the migrant undocumented workers are not given the true and good health care is wrong and

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    Chavez and Nelson Mandela were Human Right fighters‚ and Cesar Chavez was also trying to make farm worker get higher wages and get payed better. Becasue they weren’t getting paid enough for being a farmworkers.You go through tough times being a farmworker and not getting payed enough money. Nelson Mandela went to prison for fighting for people’s Pro-Apartheid . Nelson Mandela was born July 18‚ 1918. Nelson Mandela was born on July 18 ‚1918 in Africa. When Nelson Mandela was born his name was Rolihlahla

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    Brief Historical Timeline Brief Historical Timeline of the Hacienda Luisita Land Dispute Spanish Period Hacienda Luisita was once owned by the “Compañía General de Tabacos de Filipinas‚” also known as “Tabacalera”‚ founded in November 1881 by Don Antonio López y López‚ a Spaniard from Santander‚ Cantabria‚ Spain. Lopez acquired the estate in 1882‚ a year before his death‚ and named it “Hacienda Luisita” after his wife‚ Luisa Bru y Lassús. Lopez was considered a financial genius and the “most

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    Based on the infamous 1942 "Sleepy Lagoon" murder mystery and the resulting "Zoot Suit Riots" in Los Angeles ‚ playwright Luis Valdez weaves fact and fiction to depict the fate of 22 young Mexican Americans brought to trial for a murder they did not commit. "Zoot Suit" brings together unforgettable characters such as the irreverent El Pachuco and the charismatic Henry Reyna‚ an unsuspecting gang leader who finds himself caught in the middle of the racially turbulent events that rocked Los Angeles

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    Research Work About Trends and Issues in Agrarian and Land Reform Submitted to: Submitted by: Dean Lourdes Sabile Alejandrino Bantilan For a long period of time‚ the agrarian system of Philippines was being controlled by the large landlords. The small farmers in Philippines were struggling for their rights to land and other natural resources. The implementation of Agrarian reforms proceeded at a very slow pace. This was due to the lack of political will. The redistribution

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    New York: J. Wiley & Sons‚ 1941. Print. Castells‚ Manuel Eyerman‚ Ron‚ and Andrew Jamison. Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach. University Park‚ PA: Pennsylvania State UP‚ 1991. Print. Freeman‚ Jo Jenkins‚ J. Craig‚ and Perrow‚ Charles. "Farmworkers ’ Movements in Changing Political Contexts." The Social Movements Reader: Cases and Concepts. Ed. Goodwin‚ Jeff‚ and Jasper‚ James M.. Chichester‚ U.K.: Wiley-Blackwell‚ 2009. 317-31. Print. Meyer‚ David S.‚ Nancy Whittier‚ and Belinda Robnett.

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    Immokalee Film Analysis

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    Intro. Oppression is when a single person or group of people are subject to unjust treatment‚ and it just so happens that the Immokalee workers have been oppressed. It has become so vigilant that abuse of the common man is common and wealth bringing. Not a single generation of people have been left unoppressed; whether it was the Homosexual community in the 1950’s or the Black community in the 1960’s. The new faces of oppression are those that have no face and hold the weakest voice. The farm worker

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    Tayler Monroy Judith Watry WRT102 April 19th‚ 2014 World renowned author and playwright‚ Luis Valdez‚ carries a rich Mexican-American historical background that gives him the ability to integrate his beautiful culture in his writings. In 1940‚ Luis Valdez was born into a family of migrant workers along with his nine brothers and sisters. According to the Encyclopedia of World Biography in an excerpt on Luis Valdez‚ he began picking crops at the age of six and was forced to travel around California’s

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    Week 6 HRM593 According to the US Department of Labor * The time employees spend in meetings‚ lectures‚ or training is considered hours worked and must be paid‚ unless attendance is outside regular working hours‚ the attendance is voluntary‚ the course‚ lecture‚ or meeting is not job related or the employee does not perform any productive work during. attendance. * If employees on their own initiative attend an independent school‚ college‚ or independent trade school after hours‚ the time

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