Sunday, March 07, 2004

I've been reading (listening to) The Grapes of Wrath. A little more'n halfway through the book, at first it was depressing. Now however, it kinda makes me angry. I know, everything makes me angry though, so that's nothing new. The book talks about people living through the 'Hoover' years. I only know this because the book for the most part follows a group of people, mostly family, that go to California after being forced off their land, and they stay for a day in a place the people called 'Hooverville'. Even out in California though, a few people own most of the land, and there are more people to work than there is work to go around, so they don't have to pay much for labor. Sounds just like some of the shit I read about in the books by Eric Schlosser, Reefer Madness and Fast Food Nation. Back then the migrant workers were Americans. Now however, they are immigrants for the most part. That makes it more right, doesn't it?

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