Their journey began near the vineyards where a 17-year-old undocumented farmworker died of heat exhaustion last month.
Twenty years ago, he hopped a border fence from Mexico into the United States and became a migrant farmworker.
Before that time, she coordinated SAF's summer internship program and was a SAF intern with the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry.
The driver of the Nova, Dylan Peters Williams, a 21-year-old farmworker, said he saw the BMW sliding into his path.
He also announced that the California labor commissioner was initiating proceedings to revoke Merced Farm Labor's license as a farmworker contractor.
When his cousin told him he would be a farmworker for the rest of his life, he realized it was time to move on.
"The life of a farmworker isn't important to people, " says Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers union, which organized the march.
Even the chorus joins in the action, at one point taking on the dual roles of farmworker and police who beat them during a demonstration.
Gregory Schell, a labour lawyer with the Migrant Farmworker Justice Project, tells of his efforts over the years to help migrant workers at both firms.
Melinda has taken the lead in creating and developing two key statewide immigrant and farmworker coalitions: The Adelante Education Coalition and the Farmworker Advocacy Network (FAN).
"We're not seeing a dramatic escalation in wages so I discount the worker shortage a bit, " said Rob Williams, director of the Florida Migrant Farmworker Justice Project.
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