A photographer or, who was a modernday rickey allying walker evans, we pulled off to the side of the road, came up over the road attracts, across this dirt road here, posthumous vineyard with hold up to shack. Basically a tar paper shack. As we walked up we could see there were rabbit furs that had been, that were hammered onto the wall. Remember knocking once, twice ive misplaced the sun still in the door creak open and there stood this black man, who looked a cute lifted out of the mrs. A 1930s. He had a stutter. Later he told us he cant bless with a stutter one state at a time. His name is james dixon. He was 95 and he was living here, happy to send the 40s. He was part of this migration . Who did something no blacks in america, kind of win against the grain of the great migration. The great migration within the south to North Industrial cities and came west to Oakland San Francisco and l. A. There was a tribe of black okies from the south and southwest, who wanted to retain the rur
A decade ago, if you drove down highway 99, that flat zipper of road down the heart of central california, and you look to the side of the road, you would see this shack standing, and i remember the first time i saw it, i thought, jeez, thats been lifted from the mississippi delta, 1930s, you know, who lived there . Well, as i was driving, you looked closer, there was puffs of smoke coming from the roof. It was not someone who lived there. Someone was still living here in the year 2002, 2003. One day, myself and matt black, a photographer who, you know, is kind of a modern day dorothy lang, evans, we pulledded off the side of the road, came over the Railroad Tracks across this little dirt road here, across from this vineyard, and we pulled up to the shack. It was in better shape then, but a tarp paper shack, and as we walked up, there were rabbit furs that had been that were hammered on to the wall. I remember knocking once, twice, and this place was on stilts. The door creeked open, a
Businesses get it and now how important it is for the vitality of america and endorsed by the aflcio, so labor understands it also. We thank both labor and Business Community for supporting the immigration bill. [applause] so, nick, youve been involved in ufcw, packing house workers and stuff, and its been my experience as i toured them, and i didnt work in them like durbin did. He was a meat cutter in packing houses, but as ive traveled around, i see more and more of the Latino Community working in our packing houses and meat cutting places you represent. Tell us about that. Im with local cw222 from northwest iowa. We have a packing house in cherokee, iowa, and dakota city, nebraska. Too together, thats roughly close to 5,000 employee, and 75 of them are latino. 75 . Yes, yes, so 75 of the membership who we represent are latino and imMigrant Workers, so, again, good morning, ladies and gentlemen, of the panel and audience, senators, im honored to be here to talk about an issue that af
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