Ann Aurelia Lopez grew up in San Bernardino California, with a father from Mexico and a mother from the deep South in the United States. According to California law her parents’ marriage could have been considered illegal, and Ann suffered all the struggles of a child of an interracial marriage in the United States. She became a scientist, a biologist and a Ph.d in Agro-ecology. Ann chose to do research in Mexico and the United States, following the lives of migrant and mostly undocumented farm workers. She chronicled their lives in her book The Farmworkers’ Journey. Ann founded the Center For Farm Worker Families in Watsonville California, in the heart of the food belt for the United States. She is an activist for farm worker rights, and for humane immigration policy in the US and in Mexico.
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- A Sri Lankan Tamil Refugee Builds New Worlds By Papri Sri Raman
- Farming amidst Landmines: Amputated Lives in Fazilka By Tripti Nath
- Life In Salabila: No Relief From Relief Camps By Ratna Bharali Talukdar
- La Via Campesina: Supporting Voices
- Four Essays by Indian Women Writers, ed. Ritu Menon
- Trash the TPP: Why It’s Time to Revolt Against the Worst “Trade Agreement” in History
- The Un-American Way: On the Anti-Democratic ‘Trans-Pacific Partnership’
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- A PIVOT ON THE PEACE ISLAND BY KATHY KELLY
- MEDIA DISTORT THE REALITY OF SYRIAN WOMEN BY KATTY ALHAYEK
- MAHIENOUR, EGYPTIAN WOMEN, AND A REVOLUTION…BY NOHA RADWAN
- ANN LOPEZ: CORN AND CAMPESINOS
- SAVING MEXICAN CORN – ADELITA SAN VICENTE TELLO
- ESSAY ON MARRIAGE EQUALITY by LYNN FEINERMAN
- ANN LOPEZ ON DEPORTATIONS
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