José G. Villagrán

Postdoctoral Fellow in Dept. of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Sexuality Studies @ UTSA researching farmworkers/Latinx labor

[Eduardo Martinez @PharrFromHeaven]

Esteban Jordan in "Born in East L.A."

[Jay Root @byjayroot]

This is a photo of a baby being passed through concertina wire near Eagle Pass, Texas yesterday. 1/4

[Tropics of Meta @TropicsM]

Great new oral history of soccer in the Hmong community from Claremont Graduate U historian Enrique Salas-Limon @cgunews #oralhistory #football #hmong https://t.co/CfdD9lWqWV

[Councilwoman Teri Castillo @TeriCastilloD5]

Solidarity with @Teamsters Local 657! Your hard work led to record profits for UPS and you deserve a fair and just contract. Time for @UPS to #PayUp

[Sara DiNatale @sara_dinatale]

Josh’s best friend died from a heat stroke at a construction job. He wants to know why it seems no one is learning from his friend’s death — and the dozens of similar heat deaths in TX.

“He didn’t even get to see his first paycheck.” @ExpressNews
https://t.co/EPCFjJF30r

[Ethnic Studies Network of Texas @esntx2]

A fabulous week of learning, sharing, and engaging in mutual support. Against all odds, Ethnic Studies is alive and well in Texas. No turning back. Adelante!

[Jonathan Rosa @DrJonathanRosa]

Note that a racialized US labor structure predicated on Mexican expulsion is offered as a key example here while in neoliberal US diversity discourse it has become commonplace to assert that “Mexican is not a race,” which is true yet fundamentally misses the point

[Democratizing Racial Justice @DemocratizingRJ]

“Big business is powerful, but not as powerful as working families and communities. We always hit back!”@TeriCastilloD5 was a speaker at our ‘Workers on the Rise: State of Labor in San Antonio’ panel last year, moderated by post-doc fellow @JoseV956. You can now watch on YouTube!

[Refusing to Forget @Refusing2Forget]

#OTD on June 9-10, 1969, the Subcommittee on Migratory Labor met in Washington DC to examine labor abuses on migrant workers. The post meeting report, "Migrant and Seasonal Worker Powerlessness" exposed Ranger abuse of striking workers in Starr County. /1

[✨needabortion(dot)org✨-💄🥔 @taco_fartz]

when I die, spread some of my ashes over the sunflowers in that stretch of road between Premont & Alice

[Refusing to Forget @Refusing2Forget]

#OTD in 1974 the US Supreme Court decided against the #TexasRangers in Allee v Medrano, upholding a lower court’s ruling that the Rangers injured strikers’ constitutional rights during the 1966-67 Starr County melon strikes. /1

[Valerie Gonzalez @ValOnTheBorder]

Breaking update:

Mother of Panamanian girl who died in BP custody on Wednesday said they were detained over a week and that requests for an ambulance were denied repeatedly, including on the day her daughter, Anadith, died.

https://t.co/mnByxQtmFO

[Valerie Gonzalez @ValOnTheBorder]

“They killed my daughter, because she was nearly a day and a half without being able to breathe,” Mabel Alvarez Benedicks, Anadith’s mother, said Friday.

The 8 year-old had congenital heart disease and sickle cell anemia, conditions the mother communicated to officers, she said.

[Álvaro Corral @alvarojcorral]

This story is heartbreaking!
Please join my family in donating to help Anadith’s family: https://t.co/TEl2fI5ZT2

[Gene Morales @gtmorals]

Let's go!!!!

Go SPURS GO!

[José G. Villagrán @JoseV956]

This is some vile, racist garbage.

[Memo Torres 🌮 @el_tragon_de_LA]

“Without the people of America …Mexico would be eating cat food out of a can in a tent behind an outback.”

These racists fucks really believe Mexico depends on America? Nah bitch, it’s the other way around. 🖕🏽

[José G. Villagrán @JoseV956]

"Overall, I have learned so much about the systems that continue to work against us but I have also learned just how powerful our people are when we unionize."

- Student from my Mexican American labor class

😭😭

[wendy trevino @prolpo]

truly heartbroken by what happened in brownsville today