Category: The Migrant Child Farmworkers Film
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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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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…
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Congressman Raul Ruiz and Congresswoman Norma Torres were ILLEGALLY DENIED entry into the Adelanto ICE Facility. He explains: Under federal law, Members of Congress have the right to access any DHS facility used to detain immigrants, no notice required. Out of courtesy we still gave them notice. This isn’t just a door being closed. It’s…
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California State Senator Anna Caballero, one of the ten professionals featured in the documentary short film The Migrant Child Farmworkers – Now High-Profile Professionals©, narrated by Xolo Maridueña (star of Blue Beetle and Cobra Kai), supports the farm workers and agricultural economy of our state as she explains here: I proudly joined my colleagues in the California…
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By: Esteban Burchard, MD, MPH In June of 1995, I began my medical internship at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. I was one of the top medical students in my class at Stanford. As a result, I was selected as one of 42 interns nationwide to begin residency at Harvard’s BWH, which was…
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Arguments rarely change opinions; stories sometimes can. Maureen Dowd, in her New York Times piece, “Donald Trump, Our Foundering Father“, describes how she and her Trump-loving brother recently visited the “Founding Friends, Founding Foes” tour at Monticello where people could explore their divergent, fraught political relationships as Jefferson and Adams did back in the day.…
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By: Joshua Pitney As an autistic person growing up, I was told many times, in many ways, that I couldn’t. I thought I couldn’t make friends. It was challenging for me to make friends due to my introverted nature and reliance on special interests to strike up conversations. Eventually, I learned to integrate my interests…
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BY: John J. Pitney, Jr., Roy P. Crocker Professor of American Politics at Claremont McKenna College. On January 2, 1855, New York Mayor Fernando Wood wrote to President Franklin Pierce: The disease and pauperism arriving here almost daily is, of itself, a sufficient evil; but when to it is added crime, we must be permitted…
