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Title: The Fight for Water: A Farm Worker Struggle (2014)
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George Delgado | ... | Himself - Farmer |
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Joe del Bosque | ... | Himself - Farmer |
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Juan Carlos Oseguera | ... | Himself - Filmmaker |
| Paul Rodriguez | ... | Himself - Activist | |
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Patrick Cavanaugh | ... | Himself - Reporter |
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Lupita Lomeli | ... | Herself - TV Personality |
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Jim Costa | ... | Himself - Politician |
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Devin Nunes | ... | Himself - Politician (archive footage) (as Rep. Devin Nunes) |
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George Miller | ... | Himself - Politician (archive footage) |
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Ray Appleton | ... | Himself - Radio Personality (archive footage) |
| Alan Autry | ... | Himself - Former Mayor | |
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Miguel Oseguera | ... | Immigrant |
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Rosalba Oseguera-Zavala | ... | Immigrant |
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Edwin Oseguera | ... | Immigrant |
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Idalia Calderon | ... | Immigrant |
A historical documentary, set during the 2009 California Water Crisis, which documents the plight of the farmer and the farm worker as they struggled to get access to water. Two California Central Valley farmers (George Delgado and Joe Del Bosque), who came from migrant farm workers and whose life's dream had been of being a farmer, take a filmmaker (Juan Carlos Oseguera) around their impacted lands to document how water restrictions and environmental regulations, since 1992, have threatened their way of life, their American dream and their community--to the point that, in order to protect an endangered fish species, an environmental ruling--imposed by the Endangered Species Act--shut their water supply and they had to lay-off thousands of migrant farm workers, which all together, devastated their farming community. Because of that, they felt they needed to act! On April 14, 2009, farmers and farm workers, along with a coalition of Latinos (lead by Latino comedian turned activist, ... Written by Carlos Anaya III
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This documentary does a great job of shedding light on an important issue that many people aren't aware of. If you live in California, you should make it a point to watch this. It has good pacing and kept my attention, even though this particular issue doesn't directly affect me. It's always important to see both sides of every argument. This is a great example of what can happen when we don't take a close look at the consequences of political action before casting our vote. In an effort to save salmon, Californians voted to cut off the flow of critical water to many of the farmers in the central valley, creating some pretty serious problems.