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Every day in the hot fields of California, hundreds of thousands of farmworkers toil for long hours at low pay to provide fruit and vegetables to feed our nation. Most Americans never see the faces of these hard-working men and women, and know little or nothing about the harsh conditions they endure. The Migrant Project has done an extraordinary job documenting these workers lives. Rick Nahmiass powerful photographs and the beautiful essays of dedicated advocates tell an inspiring story of the farmworkers historic struggle for the respect, the dignity, and the justice they so obviously deserve.
-U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy
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Los Angeles, 2002
Nahmias' images starkly capture both the humanity of the farm workers who literally feed our country, and the inhumanity of a system which has kept them and their predecessors prisoners to poverty for decades. This book is a testament to the flesh-and-blood cost of feeding America.
-Arianna Huffington, author, editor-in-chief of The Huffington Post, and nationally syndicated columnist.
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