Farm workers blocking main highway in Baja California Norte
Farm laborers have blocked the federal highway through the San Quintin Valley in at least 5 different locations this morning, protesting over little pay, poor working conditions and abuse at the hands of the companies they work for. There have been some reports of minor violence and vandalism. It is strongly recommended that you avoid passing through until further notice.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=78097
Heh. It's the only real road down Baja. If you can't get through San Quintin/Lazaro Cardenas, you can't get down to Cabo San Lucas and La Paz. A large number of the workers in the area migrate to there from down in Oaxaca.
Good for them!
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and insensitive to, everything around them but their own rosy little universe, and then complaining about desperately poor and/or oppressed folks who are basically corporate slaves trying to make the world aware of their situation so that just maybe enough people will notice and help them
What in the fuck do you think those folks can do to help their situation?
Form a political action committee with their 50 peso per day salaries and bribe a politician to help them? Write stern leters to their congressmen?
Start an effective revolution against global multi-national corporate abuses of labor?
Pick themselves up by the bootstraps (if they could even afford boots) and become neoliberal entrepreneurs?
Do you have a clue, any clue at all, why *morons*
like Cesar Chavez and Martin Luther King, and yes, even sometimes poor or concerned white folks too, have to organize people to block traffic?
What are you going to do for them to help their situation? At least now, maybe, hopefully, because of them blocking traffic, you are aware of it.
That's a clue. Run with it.
