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  • WOODBURN, OR - 1SEPTEMBER21 - Farmworkers brought to the U.S. in the H-2A visa program plant and weed ornamental shrubs early in the morning in a field near Woodburn, Oregon. They work for the nursery Advanced Ornamentals. Members of this crew include Alfonso Guevara. He works with a short-handled hoe, the "cortito," that has been banned in California because repeated use causes damage to the spine. Copyright David Bacon

    The power imbalance at the root of the H-2A Farmworker Visa program

    Originally published: ACoM (American Community Media) on November 26, 2025 by Li Lovett (more by ACoM (American Community Media))  | (Posted Dec 03, 2025)

    ACoM recently reported on an immigration raid in Santa Maria, California, involving a U.S. citizen believed to be at the center of a visa fraud ring.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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