In this video, Larry Kleinman, of the Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United (PCUN), talks about immigration, permanent Latino population growth in Oregon and the history of human migration. It’s an inexorable river that flows toward freedom, opportunity, and survival.
What kind of nation does America want to be? What cultural values do we wish to preserve as an essential part of how we would define the American character? How do we look upon people less fortunate, and those whose religion, native country, ethnicity, may be different from our own? Are we a nation that becomes galvanized to act— out of fear, or out of hope?
Additional Videos in this series:
- Focus on the Worker: The Union
- Focus on the Worker: Seeking Opportunity
- Focus on the Farm Worker: The Seasonal Worker
- Focus on the Worker: Take Our Jobs
- Focus on the Worker: Unions Are Necessary
- Focus on the Worker: Toward a Sustainable World
Most of the videos featured on Cooking Up a Story were produced, filmed, and edited by Rebecca Gerendasy. Fred Gerendasy contributed as a writer to many of the posts and occasionally as the interviewer. Visit Rebecca Gerendasy Clay – Art and Fred Gerendasy Photography to see their current work.