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'March for Water' takes a page from Cesar Chavez

How low can you go? It's amazing that these farmers who "care" so much for their workers that they have no provisions for worker health care, no provisions for worker child care, make no effort to establish a legal guest worker program, provide no adequate housing, provide only rudimentary safety devices on equipment, and ask these people to work in many cases under the most brutal conditions, are now so concerned about their 12 weeks of employment as field hands. Our governor  who desperately wants a canal for his legacy, and the local businessmen who stand to profit from the sales of necessities to these same people are also "deeply" concerned about the workers, not their own welfare.

This unholy coalition has conned these people into, "marching" for water. What is infinitely sad about the situation is that if these farmers extort allocations of water through this sham, many have proven that they will turn around and sell it to a municipality further south, making 3800% profit while leaving their fields dry and the same workers they've rallied to their cause abandoned. Ed.
 
By E.J. Schultz eschultz@fresnobee.com
Monday, Apr. 13, 2009 - They have rallied and lobbied, pleading for more water to revive the San Joaquin Valley.
 
Now, hoping to bring national attention to their cause, members of the Latino Water Coalition will lead a four-day "California March for Water," scheduled to begin Tuesday in Mendota and end near Los Banos...(Continued on-Line at the Sacramento Bee)