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DESCRIPTION:Lettuce Wars: Social justice in the California food system, with Bruce 
 Neuburger and Ann Lopez\nTuesday, November 12, 7 - 9 PM\nUCSC Kresge 
 Seminar Room 159\n\nPolitical activist and former farm worker Bruce 
 Neuburger will be speaking at the UCSC Common Ground Center on November 12 
 about social justice in the California food system. Neuburger is the author 
 of Lettuce Wars: Ten Years of Work and Struggle in the Fields of 
 California, a memoir about his experiences as a farm worker in California 
 and a commentary on the political economy of agriculture, the U.S. labor 
 movement, and farm labor. Bruce will be joined by Dr. Ann Lopez founder and 
 director of Center for Farmworker Families and author of The Farmworkers’ 
 Journey.\n\nBruce Neuburger became a farm worker in 1971, right around the 
 time that the United Farmworkers Union was created. In the following years, 
 workers became more organized and vocal in their work for better wages and 
 working conditions. Neuburger participated in the organizing, boycotts, and 
 strikes along with other farmworkers, many of who were immigrants. 
 \n\nLettuce Wars is part memoir and part history, an effort to bring to 
 life some of the workers and activists with whom he shared those years, as 
 well as to place that struggle in the broader social and political context 
 in which it emerged and unfolded. Neuburger describes what it was like to 
 work in the fields in harsh conditions and he portrays the people he 
 encountered—immigrant workers, fellow radicals, company bosses, cops and 
 goons—vividly and indelibly, lending a human aspect to the conflict 
 between capital and labor as it played out in the fields of California. It 
 aims to reveal the mainsprings of a movement whose influence is still 
 present today, 40 years later, and some of what is going on in the fields 
 today and what that might tell us about the limits of reform.\n\nAnn Lopez, 
 in addition to her important book, leads the Center for Farmworker families 
 which works with farmworkers both in the Watsonville area and in Mexico. 
 The Center among other things brings together people outside the fields 
 through social reality tours with farmworkers in a program that has become 
 increasingly popular. Dr. Lopez has a deep grasp of the economic and social 
 conditions of farmworkers and a searing analysis of the way in which NAFTA 
 has devastated Mexico’s small farmers leaving them with no options but to 
 seek survival north of the border. \n\nThe event is sponsored by UCSC's 
 Common Ground Center at Kresge College. The mission of the Common Ground 
 Center is to “create cultural change for social justice, environmental 
 regeneration and economic viability”. The Center hosts a series of public 
 lectures and workshops based on this mission, as well as undergraduate 
 courses, two themed residence halls, and a range of student-led activities. 
 A list of subsequent talks, and more information, can be found at 
 kresge.ucsc.edu/commonground. \n\nStudents from the UCSC “Cultivating a 
 Daily Revolution” seminar, organized by the Friends of the Community 
 Agroecology Network (FoCAN), will join the night as part of their course. 
 Their seminar focuses on the injustices existing in industrial food 
 practices, and what the efforts are to alleviate these issues in the Santa 
 Cruz community. \n\n“Lettuce Wars: Social justice in the California food 
 system, with Bruce Neuburger and Dr. Ann Lopez” is Tuesday, November 12, 
 2013, from 7 – 9 PM, in the UCSC Kresge Seminar Room. It is free and open 
 to the public. \n\nParking is $3 in the Core West Parking Garage. More 
 parking information is online at 
 kresge.ucsc.edu/commonground/about/parking.html \n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/09/18746165.php
SUMMARY:Lettuce Wars: Social justice in the California food system
LOCATION:UCSC Kresge Seminar Room 159
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2013/11/09/18746165.php
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