On this episode, the LMC speaks with Maximillian Alvarez and Clara Longo de Freitas to spotlight Baltimore’s Latino community following the Key Bridge collapse that killed six migrant construction workers.
Maximillian Alvarez is the Editor-in-Chief of the Real News Network in Baltimore, MD.
Clara Longo de Freitas is a community reporter for the Baltimore Banner.
While the UAW leads a historic labor strike on behalf of American auto workers, the LMC examines the challenges faced by their Mexican counterparts by speaking with Dan DiMaggio, an assistant editor for Labor Notes, and Mexico-based labor activist Charlie Saperstein.
On a special May Day 2020 episode, the LMC speaks with Angela Stuesse about the challenges facing immigrant workers in the meat-processing and farming industry regarding safer working conditions and human rights during the Coronavirus pandemic. Angela Stuesse is a Cultural Anthropologist @ the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. She is also the author of, “Scratching Out a Living: Latinos, Race, and Work in the Deep South.”
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