He makes that pledge not just for himself but to the thousands of Mexican immigrants toiling in the heat and fields of America’s agricultural heartland. Jose Ramirez is vowing ‘to fight not only my heart out but beyond human limits’‘This is for them,’ says the California-born son of Mexican parents who worked as an American picker himself. ‘There is virtually no investment from government in the infrastructure needed to store water,’ says Ramirez. But it is still the fight for farmers rights which comes first in the Ramirez priorities. As he says: ‘No water, no life.’TV: streaming on FITE TV for £9.99, fight approx 4am (Sunday)


Source:   The Nation
May 20, 2021 21:56 UTC