{"id":24641,"date":"2024-07-10T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/?p=24641"},"modified":"2024-07-10T10:08:55","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T17:08:55","slug":"tule-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/tule-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Tule Lake: where Latinos are seen as workers, not people"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 696px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-24641-1\" width=\"696\" height=\"394\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kelly-Harris-Tulelake.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kelly-Harris-Tulelake.mp4\">https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/Kelly-Harris-Tulelake.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kelly Harris was born and raised in Tule Lake, a town in northern Siskiyou County, a small community of farm workers, most of them Latino, where they are seen as just that, employees, not as people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This was denounced by Harris, the organization&#039;s general director. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.teachinc.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TEACH \u2012Training, Employment, and Community Help\u2012 (Training, Employment, and Community Help) Inc.<\/a>, who over the years has seen injustices and abuses against the Spanish-speaking community in the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe Hispanic population has never been respected in this community; they are considered workers, not people,\u201d he told journalists Manuel Ortiz and Peter Schurmann, for a joint project between Peninsula 360 Press and Ethnic Media Services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The farms that fill the spaces of Tule Lake are owned by whites, who pass on their land to their children, and they in turn pass it on to theirs, perpetuating a space where there is no room for Latinos, at least not as anything other than workers.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThe people who own the farms haven\u2019t changed, they\u2019ve been passed down through generations. And these white farmers have taken their children out of the school districts here and put them in schools in Oregon, which are predominantly white. I think it\u2019s a very racist place,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>You may be interested in:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/medical-care-in-california-2\/\">Connecting farmworkers to health care in rural Northern California<\/a><\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kelly Harris naci\u00f3 y creci\u00f3 en Tule Lake, un pueblo en el norte del condado de Siskiyou, una peque\u00f1a comunidad de trabajadores agr\u00edcolas, la mayor\u00eda de ellos latinos, donde estos son solo visto como eso, empleados, no como personas. As\u00ed lo denunci\u00f3 Harris, directora general de la organizaci\u00f3n TEACH \u2012Training, Employment, and Community Help\u2012 (Capacitaci\u00f3n, [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":24647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[311],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-norcal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24641"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24648,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24641\/revisions\/24648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peninsula360press.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}