Gainesville GMB Monthly Labor Film Series - "Harvest of Loneliness"

La Casita and the Gainesville IWW will screen the award winning documentary, "Harvest of Loneliness, The Bracero Program," by Gilbert Gonzalez, Adrian Salinas and Vivian Price on the guest worker program of 1942-1964. Hidden within historical accounts of US workers and immigrants is the story of millions of Mexican men and women who experienced the bracero program, a "guest worker" program designed to supply workers to agriculture and undermine farm worker unionization. The documentary features the men speaking of their experiences, and the wives and families left behind in Mexican villages emptied of men from l942-1964. Guest worker programs for non-agricultural sectors are now part of the arsenal of proposed US immigration reforms. But what are these programs and how do they actually operate? "Harvest of Loneliness" explores how the bracero program originated, how it was implemented, and its effects on unions, workers and the economy.

COST: $3 to $5 donation requested