{"id":470,"date":"2006-03-31T16:57:36","date_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hostkabob.com\/vote\/?p=470"},"modified":"2006-03-31T16:57:36","modified_gmt":"2006-03-31T16:57:36","slug":"33106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/?p=470","title":{"rendered":"3\/31\/06"},"content":{"rendered":"

In honor of Cezar Chavez Day <\/strong>today, I worked on a position paper about farm worker issues this morning. One of the points I make in the paper is that our administration would push to make this a National Holiday because of the social justice importance of what Chavez accomplished… I also interviewed Jennifer and Ruben De Anda today. They live on the Monterey Penninsula in California. Jennifer was born in America. Ruben comes from Lago de Moreno in the State of Jalisco, Mexico. (He is now an American citizen.)… Ruben proposes a fascinating concept. He pointed to the coming together of countries to form the European Union and wondered why we couldn’t form, say, an “Americas’ Union,” <\/em><\/strong>involving as many countries as possible in North and South America. With this Union would come a unified monetary system (like the Euro), open borders, more idea and investment exchanges… In other words, undertaking things together might well create more of a common bond, more conduits for mutual aid, and better camaraderie in general between nations… The De Andas have three young children. The children are learning to speak both English and Spanish. Jennifer explained they get the children bilingual books, attend bilingual church services and are also taught a lot about their father’s country and culture. “Just learning the language doesn’t tell you how people think, or about their customs and social standards,” said Ruben… The couple is also quite concerned about the recent immigration policy debate in the U.S. They said some of the extended family is legal, some not. If the policies enacted are quite stringent, the De Andas are worried about deportation and the havoc that could cause in splitting some of their extended family, and so on… Note:<\/strong> We came across a group of some 50 Hispanic men congregated around a 7-Eleven store parking lot in Seaside, California, yesterday. They were trying to hawk their services. One of the men, Oscar Domingus, said he had arrived at 5 a.m. (it was now 10:30 a.m. and he still hadn’t been hired). Domingus, who moved here from El Salvador four years ago, told me the men gather here every day early in hopes of being hired to do day land scaping, or mechanical work, or contruction work, or farm work. Some get hired. Some don’t. These guys live in quiet desperation on the margins of society, day in and day out. How many of us (spiritually) turn our backs because, well, we’re already ‘hired?’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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