![]() ( Town Hall, 1119 Eighth Ave, 7:30 pm, $5, all ages) CHARLES MUDEDE If they don't, the Mexicans will still have low-paying jobs, and the white farmers will have nothing but a Fox News that doesn't even have Tucker Carlson. If the farmers and their laborers form a political union of feeling, they have a chance. Her book Milked investigates its source, which is the increasingly social and experiential alliance between Mexican workers and their white employers, who are frequently fucked to nothingness by the banks. Can the real rural world be recovered? Ruth Conniff, the present editor-in-chief of the Wisconsin Examiner and former editor-in-chief of The Progressive magazine, sees some hope in this direction. ![]() ![]() (TALKS) My big question is: When will the rural revert to red? And I mean the old school rural red, the red of the 1930s and described in Northern Lights, a movie "about how farmers in North Dakota were radicalized by socialist activists." The rural areas were not always about MAGA and all of that self-defeating crap. Ruth Conniff with Megan Ybarra: How an American Crisis Brought Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers Together ![]()
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