Near Desert Paradise, Coachella Farm Workers Live in “Favelas”

Oct. 27, 2011 / By Coachella Unincorporated
Tags: Agriculture, California, Farm Workers, Farms, Rural, Slums, United States

California Watch, Video, story: Patricia Leigh Brown, video: Carrie Ching, Posted: Oct 26, 2011

THERMAL – At one end of Avenue 54, a road slicing through some of the most fertile land in the United States, resides the California of the popular imagination: a place of Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners overlooking the infinity pool...