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Reading was key to saving Lisa’s life. Meet Lisa Ramirez, EdD.: Lisa was a migrant child farmworker who grew up in a small Texas town of 1,200 people. She faced brutal conditions in all aspects of her life – in her family, in the fields where she worked as a migrant child farmworker, and in…
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Brandon Guzmán is featured in the Migrant Child Farmworkers Now High-Profile Professionals© documentary. Brandon came to the U.S. from Mexico City when he was a young child. By the time he was 7 years old he worked as a migrant child farmworker in the Central Valley of California. Excelling in school, Brandon earned a law…
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We are working to expand the reach of the stories in the Migrant Child Farmworkers Now High-Profile Professionals documentary. As an important step, we now offer a Spanish language option so that many more people can learn about the film’s important and inspiring messages! Please spread the word.
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Dr. Ramon Resa is a pediatrician. He is also a former abandoned migrant child farmworker who returned to his Central Valley community to care for and be a role model for kids like he used to be. Seemingly hidden, there are many examples of former migrant child farmworkers who have succeeded beyond anyone’s imagination. The…
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With Speakers Enrique Diaz and Lisa Ramirez as well as Mgrublian Center for Human Rights’s Benjamin Simington
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We held a special private screening of The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals © on July 22nd at the Hill Center in Washington, DC where six of the ten professionals featured in the film attended: Congressman Raul Ruiz, Lisa Ramirez, Fernando Mendoza MD, Ramon Resa MD, former Congressman Tony Cárdenas and Enrique Diaz. Also in attendance…
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Bertha Tobias was an intern for The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals ©. She is a graduate of Claremont McKenna College, my alma mater. After I read her story in the alumni magazine, I contacted her immediately—I knew the documentary would resonate with her. The Migrant Child Farmworkers is much more than a film; it’s a…
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By: John K. Roth, Edward J. Sexton Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Claremont McKenna College Trump 2.0 shows that the US Constitution alone cannot prevent the United States from becoming an oligarchic autocracy, but we the people can reverse that tide. The country and the American Dream can ill-afford for the enablers of Trump 2.0 to…
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People ask me why I made The Migrant Child Farmworkers-Now High-Profile Professionals ©, a film about people of color who were homeless, hungry, abused, discriminated against, former child farm laborers and immigrants. What could I possibly have in common with them? I’ve asked myself countless times over the ten long, arduous and self-esteem-eroding years it’s…
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We all saw the video of California Senator Alex Padilla being strong-armed out of press conference room, taken out to the hallway, shoved face-down onto the floor and handcuffed behind his back. We saw how he clearly stated his name as they shoved him out the door, “I’m … Senator … Alex .. Padilla,” as…
