Episode 7: Peasant Feminism and Workers Organising in the US/MX Borderlands

This episode features a conversation with Rosemary Rojas, from the Border Agricultural Workers Project and The Border Women’s Project in El Paso, Texas. Since 1994, the project has supported and assisted agricultural workers crossing the US/Mexico border and their families, and is part of La Via Campesina. We speak to Rosemary about workers and feminist struggles in the region, and the efforts to ensure safe working conditions during the pandemic.

Episode Links:

• Centro de Trabajadorxs Fronterizxs – Facebook – www.facebook.com/ctaf.sinfronteras
  Donation link: goo.gl/UMHEv6
• A history of the Border Agricultural Workers project: www.farmworkers.org/centreng.html
• “The Path of Peasant and Popular Feminism in La Via Campesina”: graphic book (shorturl.at/fxDI0), report (shorturl.at/dAFM7)
• Migrant Border Health Initiative: www.migranthealth.utep.edu/
• El Paso drought problems: www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/20/1…mate-change/
• Channeling the Forces of Reproduction course: commonecologies.net/courses/forcesreproduction/

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