A specific focus on the organizing efforts of the independent farmworker union Familias Unidas por la Justicia, this film visits their struggle to earn a union contract with their employer, Sakuma Farms. Their struggle reintroduces immigrant rights and labor organizing back into the movement for a just food system.This historic narrative connects the decades of immigrants’ struggle to survive and thrive in the increasingly globalized and neoliberal economy that is displacing families across the continent.
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. . . La Fuerza Interna has screened at several festivals across the country, earned funding for traveling to its NY premiere, and continues to be used for educational and organizing purposes in the greater Seattle area . . .
José Chalit Hernandez 