Come eat food and listen to a panel of farmworkers and organizers involved with the #NOT1MORE deportation campaign.

The 2014-15 School of Public Health Common Book is Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States by Seth Holmes.

Seth Holmes is a medical anthropologist and physician who lived and traveled for several years with undocumented, indigenous Triqui migrant farmworkers and families. This book is an ethnographic witness to the everyday lives and suffering of Mexican migrants. Holmes uncovers how market forces, econonic policy, anti-immigrant sentiment, and racism undermine health and access to quality health care, housing and jobs. 

The Common Book Series will invite you to dialogue and engage with peers from across the health science schools, with the author, and most importantly with farmworkers and community members who are working together to create alternative and humanizing systems.  This is an opportunity for you to identify how you can contribute to ongoing struggles toward justice, dignity, and health for farmworker families and communities.

Copies of the book are available on reserve through the Health Sciences Library and the main UW Library, or you can purchase from your favorite bookseller.