Workers unload beets from wagons at a factory in Oxnard, California. The Japanese-Mexican Labor Association (JMLA), formed in 1903, united both Japanese and Mexican sugar beet thinners to organize together for better work protections.
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The Asian American Studies Center acknowledges the Gabrielino/Tongva peoples as the traditional land caretakers of Tovaangar (Los Angeles basin, So. Channel Islands) and pay our respects to the honuukvetam (ancestors), ‘ahiihirom (elders), and ‘eyoohiinkem (relatives/relations) past, present, and emerging.
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