If you refuse, they beat you, leave you or kill you.
Journeys
I keep in mind always to never lose my story of how far I’ve come.
Journey of the Monarch Butterfly
I was 8 years old when my dad tried to explain to me that I couldn’t get a driver’s license. The subject came up when I told him “I couldn’t wait to drive!” He then proceeded to tell me why.
Beginning to Understand
If I work it is out of necessity, not because I don’t need to work, that’s why we’re working.
Fighting and Learning
What is grand is to be able to earn our bread by the sweat of our brow. Remember yes, you can.
Fighting For A Better Future
We came hoping to be better off financially, between the two of us working, we would be able to have a better life for our two daughters.
Everything Is Possible
1 I have had many trainings on pesticides and field conditions, and despite all the information that is in the media, I feel there is a great need to provide more.
To Fight Injustice
She gave me a room, bed and everything; with a blanket and everything. And then she got us a job in the strawberry fields. It was very hard. We had never worked in the fields, my husband and me. But we never chickened out. We worked.
Oppressed Heart
What I say to my children is that they be good parents to their children. We suffered a lot because we didn’t have much food; there wasn’t plenty, so we never wasted any.
I Wanted to Study
I was born in Los Angeles, CA. My mom was an undocumented immigrant. When I was one year old, she took me to Jalisco, Mexico. I grew up there.