I feel an obligation
to post this page from El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farm Worker,” out of Delano, CA, on October 15, 1986:
“A good example is the Woodsville-Linell camp under the administration of the Tulare County Housing Authority. The camp’s single-room shacks, built in 1938, have no windows, no inside water, and no toilets.”
It is doubtful that conditions have improved enough to note since the day this was written.
These were the conditions my schoolmates, my friends, lived in.
And nobody seems to care.
Want to talk about inequality? Let’s start here. Let’s start with Linell Camp. These people are not our enemies. These people are not even our friends. We don’t consider them family. We don’t even consider them dogs. We consider them household appliances.
We make this evident in how we treat them.
[Ed. note in comments.]
Meg
| Friday, June 20, 2008 | 4:49 pmNot to belittle the importance of what you are saying, but I think the lack of results may have to do with a spelling variant. A search for “linnell camp” produces are more results.
amandaw
| Friday, June 20, 2008 | 4:56 pmYou are correct. I will update when I get home from work. Thanks for the note.
ETA: For the sake of accuracy and flow, I am going to remove the pertaining section from the post, and preserve it here:
When I go through the results for both spellings, I count 39 distinct results (a good half of the results for “Linnell camp” are the same Times-Delta article). I believe my point still stands, but I’d rather not use inaccurate info to make that point.