ABSTRACT
We have a system of apartheid here in the United States. Particularly in places like where you find yourselves today, where us, 70% of the population, are dominated, exploited and repressed by a minority. A minority that continues sustaining a system of apartheid where 4.2 million agricultural workers have to suffer the use of pesticides for the simple reason that the majority are Mexicans. This is to provide profits to a group of food processing corporations which show no interest in the harmful effects to the land, the water, the air and even less to the agricultural workers. (Carlos Marentes, President of the Border Agricultural Workers Union (UTAF), El Paso, Texas)
