Out of work sleeping in fields the people in central valley in California TRUTHOUT
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Transnational working communities
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People migrating between the U.S. and Mexico and Guatemala belong to transnational communities - they retain ties to their communities of origin, and establish new communities in new areas as they migrate in search of work. Those ties are often so strong, and the movement of people back and forth is so great, that in some sense people belong to a single community which exists in different locations, on both sides of the border.
US courts against education
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U.S. COURTS – ENEMIES OF EDUCATION?
By David Bacon
TruthOut Perspective, 5/8/09

SACRAMENTO, CA

Is there a “constitutional right to education”?

Legal scholar and civil rights advocate Erwin Chemerinsky says there is. “There has to be a right to education in the Constitution,” he declares, “and equal protection is a Constitutional imperative.”