Rebellion on the Border
01 Juan Jimenez
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Calexico
Juan Jimenez lives in Calexico and takes care of the old UFW hall in El Hoyo, where many of the largest and most militant strikes in California agriculture began. Workers cross the Mexican border here every morning, and are hired by labor contractors to go to the fields. Jimenez picked lemons for many years, and spent a decade as a sewing machine operator in a Los Angeles sweatshop and in the Huffy bicycle factory in Azusa.
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