Coachella Unincorporated is looking for a few great student reporters to add to our already amazing team.

If you want to help us tell the stories of the Eastern Coachella Valley, we invite you to attend our next editorial meeting:

Thursday, January 16, 2014

1494 Sixth St, Coachella (Raices office)

4 to 5:30 p.m.

Participants must be:

* A high school or college student

* A resident of Coachella or the unincorporated communities of the Eastern Coachella Valley

* Interested in journalism

* A team player

* Willing to learn

* Able to meet deadlines

Experience is not required, and all student reporters will receive stipends for their work.

Please email  [email protected] with any questions.

By Jesus A. Vargas,
Coachella Unincorporated

A cacophony of voices invades your ears, ringing with tangible excitement. You manage to distinguish Australian and British English from the audible jumble, but you also hear Spanish, something that’s probably German and some other languages that you won’t even try to figure out.

There’s an eclectic mix of music blaring from rows of cars that are currently at a standstill, moving a few feet every five minutes when the car in front of them does the same. After a while, people just put their cars in neutral and push them forward rather than turn them on to move them. Everyone’s outside their cars, most with a beer in hand, and people are already mingling with complete strangers as if they’re old friends, the conversations monopolized by inquires of, “Where are you guys from?” and, “Who are you excited to see?”

It’s 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 14, 2011, and you’re in the line for car camping at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. You and your friends decide to get comfortable; this “queue” (as a nearby English girl refers to it) is going to take a while.

The festival, affectionately known as simply “Coachella,” attracts upwards of 75,000 music (and party) lovers to the modest city of Indio, California. Held annually in mid-April, the three-day music extravaganza has become the premier music festival in North America, attracting revelers from around the world. For most of these concertgoers, Coachella is a pilgrimage; a journey to a sleepy, out-of-the-way area in the scorching desert known mainly as a place to retire. They plan their trips months in advance, pack days before the festival and drive hours to get to it—but I just grab whatever I can carry on me and go.

For me, it’s always been just a 10-minute bike ride up the street. I’m 22 years old and a lifelong resident of the Coachella Valley and, now, a four-year veteran of Coachella Fest. My house is about three and half miles away from the Empire Polo Grounds, the festival venue.

Most people who frequent Coachella Fest or the nearby resorts know nothing about the real Coachella. I actually live in the city of Coachella, a small 40,000 person town that is economically depressed, mostly rural and agricultural and predominantly Hispanic. Further east of the city of Coachella are the unincorporated communities of Thermal, Mecca, and North Shore, which are home mostly to Hispanic migrant workers who work in the area’s agricultural fields. Many live in poverty and the environmental conditions there are terrible and the landscape is desolate. There are trash heaps and illegal dumps in the area. A nearby soil recycling plant emits a stink that many residents say causes them extreme discomfort. It is a stark contrast to the glitz and glamour of the Western Coachella Valley that’s only a few minutes down the I-10.

When my friends and I tell people at Coachella (the festival) that we live literally five minutes away in Coachella (the city), they are incredulous. They didn’t seem to think that anyone under the age of 40 lived here. When I tell them I’m not from La Quinta, Indio, Palm Desert or Palm Springs, they ask, “What other cities are there here?” This year we got a car camping spot, and when we told people we were locals a lot of them asked us why we were camping. We answered with a disinterested, “Why not?” or a sarcastic, “To hang out with you, of course.”

Many times we just say we’re from somewhere else to avoid the inevitable bemused looks and questioning. Why should I kill their Coachella buzz experience with tales about Mecca and Thermal and the poverty and pollution endemic to them? There are, however, a few people that are aware of the large Hispanic population just east of the festival grounds and, upon hearing of our status as locals, they ask us questions. We tell them mostly the good things and just a few of the details concerning the crime, poverty and pollution. They are appalled at the little we do tell them.

Being a local, it is kind of surreal that all these famous people and young, beautiful, and often wealthy tourists are suddenly transplanted just up the street from me. As it’s happening, as I’m there listening to the music, taking in the awesome art installations and talking effortlessly to strangers, there’s always the nagging sensation in the back of my head that none of it is real, that my mind is playing an elaborate trick on me.

But then I feel the rays of the burning sun hit my skin, get sprayed by a heavenly cool stream of water or “accidentally” bump into a cute girl I see, and this tactility reassures me that it’s all real, that it’s all happening now and to make the most of it. No one knows who I am (except my friends and other locals who I run into), and aesthetically I fit right in with this crowd of indie twentysomethings just trying to have a good time. I’ll admit it—the problems of my community don’t seem exist to me when I’m there.

There, water bottle in hand, desperately trying to find shade in an afternoon set at the outdoor stage. There, in the dark and pulsating lights of the Sahara Tent, packed chest-to-back with other electronic music lovers, dancing the night away. There, listening to the Chemical Brothers, watching their elaborate light spectacle, time seemingly is at a halt as the melodic electronic harmonies ring out on full blast. Suddenly, there’s a lull in the music and an ethereal voice begins repeating the line, “You should feel, what I feel” over and over. You turn your head to take in your surroundings and everyone around you is swaying gently to and fro with their eyes closed and gratified smiles. You see that everyone is feeling, what everyone is feeling and you join them and think to yourself how glad you are that this incredible event is right in your back yard. You also wonder how next year’s “Coachella” can possibly top this.

Yet you know from experience that every Coachella Fest is better than the last, always managing to find a way to improve from one year to the next. That’s something I wish Coachella the city had in common with Coachella the festival.

This article was originally published on this website April 22, 2011.

By Ivan Delgado
Coachella Unincorporated

Those wanting to make Coachella better will have a voice on Thursday, February 9, from 6-8:30 p.m. when Fiesta de la Salud #2 takes place in the Bobby Duke Middle School Multipurpose Room, which is spacious enough to accommodate a community meeting.

Fiesta de la Salud #2 is the second of three meetings to update the General Plan for Coachella. The General Plan includes multiple issues the city faces that range from the community’s vision for housing to jobs. One of the goals is to ensure things like keeping parks and shopping closer to the community.

“The overall goal of the Health and Wellness Development is to improve access to food, parks, healthcare, and transit,” said Linda Guillis, Development Services Director.

Food will be provided, and both Spanish and English will be spoken, so there will be no language barrier holding people back.

There will also be childcare, so parents need not worry about leaving their children at home.

“It’s important for families with children, so we can create a better community that will provide better services to their kids,” Guillis said. “We want to get input from our residents to make sure what we do is what they want us to do.”

People in attendance at the meeting will be able to decide what is important and what will be beneficial to residents over time.

A gathering like Fiesta de la Salud #2 is beneficial to not only the people of Coachella, but for neighboring towns like Mecca and Thermal. Transit is a major issue for families trying to get shopping done, medical aid, or commuting to work. Residents will have the opportunity to discuss this issue and find the best possible solution.

Angelina De La Hoya, a Coachella resident for the past 12 years, wants to see an improvement in transportation.

“I want to see less buses being cut, because not everyone has the same transportation as others,” De La Hoya said.

Another issue that is brought up frequently in Coachella is immigration.

“I also want to see an improvement in services to illegal immigrants,” she said.

According to Guillis, the actual document that is the General Plan for the city of Coachella is predicted to be completed within 18 months to two years.

“This is a very large process,” Guillis said. “Think of it like a funnel, the information comes in at the top, then it’s narrowed down after we hear from the residents, and the General Plan comes out of the end.”

By Santos Reyes
Coachella Unincorporated

In October, television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz launched the HealthCorps initiative at Coachella Valley High School. Three months later, Coachella Unincorporated is checking in to see just how the initiative is being implemented at the school.

HealthCorps is a movement to get American students and communities across the country to take charge of their health to empower and educate youth and faculty about their bodies, their environments and their abilities to affect them.

One way this initiative is being carried out is through the “Fit for Life” program at Coachella Valley High School.

The program teaches students different ways to stay active and healthy. All students from C.V. High are invited to participate in this program. The group meets Mondays and Thursdays to learn
how to work out but also to learn ways to spread their active lifestyles to their family and friends.

HealthCorps coordinators empower teens in underserved populations to make simple lifestyle changes to enhance their well-being and resilience and take the message to friends, families and neighbors. The coordinator at C.V. High is Naomi Soto. She has joined forces with “ASES,” an after-school program for students to participate in activities, to create a program for students to live and maintain a healthy, active, lifestyle.

“I want to show them ways to stay active and that there is a space for them to exercise,” Soto said. Soto explained that if you’re not into sports, “Fit for Life” is the place to get a great workout. The group meets with a personal trainer to learn how to work out in the correct ways to keep from getting injured. Soto highly encourages that a gym membership doesn’t stop people from getting a great workout.

“Fit for Life” focuses on cardio and weight training. Soto is also working on getting a yoga instructor for the students to relax and get different perspectives of working out.

“Workouts are so much fun when you are with a group of people,” she said.

“Fit for Life” has many plans for the future—to continue its workout program and Soto says she is going to teach lessons on nutrition in March. The group has high hopes on impacting the lives of students at Coachella Valley High School and hopes to keep adding more new students. The goal is to spread active living and healthy nutrition not only through the students but to their loved ones as well.

“Fit for Life” is also recruiting people to join this movement. The group meets in the weight room inside the gym at the high school. Gabriel Rodriguez, a senior at Coachella Valley High School, has been participating in the group since it started.

“I like staying in shape and getting a good workout,” he said.

By Tony Aguilar
Coachella Unincorporated

As the global economy shows idle signs of recovery, some Eastern Coachella Valley residents are finding their own recovery in the most common of places—their kitchen trash bin.

Maria Aguirre, 58, and her husband Vicente, 56, of Thermal, started recycling their used household bottles and cans when their two daughters were just three years old. Now retired, Maria and Vicente collected recyclable goods from home and goods from their work place for years. Maria and Vicente put the funds they earned from recycling into a savings account, hoping it would help offset the cost of their children’s college tuition.

It paid off. By the time their oldest daughter, Viviana, graduated from high school they had saved $10,000. By the time their second daughter Maribel graduated they had saved $8,000. According to Maria and Vicente, “We saved enough to pay for nearly half of each of our daughter’s tuition. The rest we had to pay out of pocket.”

“We now have three grandchildren to save for,” Maria said. “With rising costs of tuition in every sector of higher education across the board, it is now more important than ever to save,” she said, adding that she and her husband continue to recycle bottles and cans, glass, plastic and aluminum or whatever the recycling center will offer a redemption value for.

While the story of the Aguirre family and their grandchildren is one of optimism, other Eastern Coachella Valley residents are turning to recycling as a desperate last-ditch effort to supplement their income.

Adelina Solorzano, 73, of Thermal, lives alone and says she relies heavily on recycling household goods to supplement her income.

“I’m retired and rely solely on Social Security or the help of my sons just to get by,” Solorzano said. “My costs vary from month to month so it’s always important to have that extra help.”

Solorzano said that when she gathers enough to fit into the trunk of her Ford Taurus, she jets off to the recycling center down the street. She says the amount earned is a measly $20.00, if that.

“This used to be a family effort,” she said. “We would drive down the road in the our pickup truck with one child on each side of the road and collect cans that people would toss on the side of the road from their car windows, or that the wind would blow by.”

But Solorzano says that those days are gone. “You just don’t see recyclable goods thrown on the side of the road anymore,” she said. “People have finally come to realize that there is a value in what was so long ago seen as trash.”

In these difficult economic times, recycling is not the only way Solorzano has come to supplement her income. Solorzano has taken to cooking tamales and selling them at local trailer parks or to friends from church but says that doesn’t always pay off.

“Sometimes I get lucky and sell half of what I cooked and when I don’t, well I lose out big time,” she said.

While collecting trash and turning it in for cash may sound like a win-win situation for all, you may be shocked to find that we are not all winners in the world of “trash redemption.”

Eddy Leon, of Leons Market in Mecca, says that business at the recycling center he owns and operates out of his mini mart is down compared to this time last year.

“Recently other centers have been offering higher redemption values than I can,” Leon said. “So customers automatically turn around and drive to where they can get more money.”

We have all been guilty of tossing an aluminum can in a recycling bin. It makes us feel good. It gives us reassurance that we are keeping our community and planet clean. But the next time you let that can slip your hands and into the reaches of someone else, realize that someone is making money off of what you are throwing away, enough for a tank of gas or for their children’s tuition.

By Alejandra Alarcon, Coachella Unincorporated

Following last year’s launch and successful turnout, expectations are high for the second The Hue Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for April 7, 2012.

The Hue Festival is a youth-led, cultural event promoting a healthier community and showcasing local talented artists and musicians. For Eastern Coachella Valley residents of all ages, the festival is also an event that allows them to express themselves in a safe environment.

“The Hue Festival is about spreading health awareness to the community in a creative way without wearing a vegetable costume,” joked Esperanza Navarro, youth coordinator for Building Healthy Communities.

“The Hue itself means color; color represents different people with their own interests and tastes,” said Denise Torres, a senior at Coachella Valley High School and former participant of the festival. “They all come together in this one space swaying to the music, observing the art.”

Breaking barriers, the Hue festival is a representation of diversity. The Hue has a variety of musical genres, such as ska, metal, indie, and hip-hop and showcases many types of art.

“The most difficult part about organizing this festival is coming to agreements [about what to showcase] because we’re all so different,” Torres said. “Our interests vary and we all want the best possible turn-out.”

The Hue is hoping to have even better attendance for its second year event compared to last year’s crowd estimated at one thousand people. The event will be located at the Dateland Park in Coachella.

Event coordinators Esperanza Navarro and Carlos Gonzalez have been recruiting to engage the youth.

“My job is to stand on the side lines,” Navarro said. “We are there to provide guidance and support. For example, the students might need some kind of permit or any specific arrangements. That’s where the adults help out. There is a lot of work ahead of us but we will have an amazing event.”

The festival’s committee is currently in the process of holding auditions for bands and musicians. As a group, they will all decide who will have the chance to perform.

“This year is going to be bomb diggity,” Torres said. “There will be more art, more lights, and better food than last year.”

If you are interested in being a part of the Hue Festival’s committee or performing or displaying your art in an exhibition, contact Esperanza Navarro at (760) 574-0736 or [email protected].

By Tony Aguilar
Coachella Unincorporated

January 20, 2012–Earlier this week, former President Bill Clinton and the likes of Hollywood stars such as Goldie Hawn held the Clinton Foundation’s “Health Matters: Activating Wellness in Every Generation” conference at the posh Renaissance Esmeralda Resort & Spa in Indian Wells. The conference kicked off the prestigious Humana Challenge PGA Tour in La Quinta and according to the Clinton Foundation’s website, highlights the tournament’s commitment to improve global health and well-being.

In my opinion, and again this is just my opinion, if these star-studded philanthropists really want to improve health amongst the country’s youth then they should go to the front lines of the healthcare crisis in the Coachella Valley not to a posh resort city such as Indian Wells, which is one of the wealthiest cities in the valley, and possibly the country. If the GPS on their European luxury cars does not lead them there, then I will gladly and warm-heartedly volunteer to serve as their caddy of sorts for the day as I show them around the Eastern Coachella Valley and present them the list of its healthcare disparities comparable in length only to their catalog of Oscars.

Earlier this week, the healthcare giant and title sponsor of the Humana Challenge held a “Humana Day” event in the host city of the tournament, La Quinta. This event featured a smorgasbord of healthy activities for the whole family, including a walk down Bear Creek trail, children’s activities and vendors sampling healthy treats. The city of La Quinta is bountiful with activities for its youth and seniors. It has several parks and other locations to gather for recreational activities. Residents’ access to healthy living there is superior when compared to the communities of the Eastern Coachella Valley.

There is something fundamentally wrong when the Humana Challenge, the Clinton Foundation and the PGA say they are effectively promoting health and well being to improve people’s quality of life, yet they host their posh events and outreach activities in communities that already have access to all of these services. Just a short ride from Indian Wells are the communities and residents of the Eastern Coachella Valley that suffer from great healthcare disparities that range from open cesspools to ghastly fumes from large industrial plants that lurk over parks and elementary schools.

While the Eastern Coachella Valley does not have a five star diamond resort such as the Renaissance Esmeralda to host the likes of former Presidents and Hollywood royalty, the Eastern Coachella Valley does possess the workforce that serves the dishes at the benefit dinners for a cause that will hardly benefit those most needing the “benefit.”

In what appears to be a testament to their fear of stepping into an Eastern Coachella Valley community, volunteers from Humana, the Desert Alliance for Community Empowerment and KaBOOM! spent six hours building a park in the community of Oasis. Six hours seems a bit rushed to build a park for children, appearing as though the volunteers were in a rush to jet in and out of the Eastern Coachella Valley on their private jets.

Even television’s Dr. Mehmet Oz took the time to meet with the people of the Eastern Valley face-to-face in October when he launched his HealthCorps initiative at Coachella Valley High School.

Next year, I challenge the Humana Challenge to descend onto Coachella Valley communities that actually need an improvement in healthcare: the entire Eastern Coachella Valley.

* Tony Aguilar
is a member of Coachella Unincorporated and a student at College of the Desert who lives in Thermal.

By Raymond P. Bondad
Coachella Unincorporated

In the heart of Coachella lies a jewel in the making, a community-driven mural depicting a timeline of Mexican-American culture dating back to the pre-Columbian era. Encompassing the Spanish conquest, Mexican independence from Spain, and Chicano history, the mural is part of the beautification and rejuvenation projects coming to the “City of Eternal Sunshine.”

Originally started by “Artistas Del Barrio” in 1979, the Shady Lane mural project lasted until 1981 and was never completed. Eventually the wall deteriorated and fell to the ground.

The city decided to level the wall and start over. In May of 2011, the mural project was revived when “Culturas,” a local organization, rallied volunteer artists from all over the Coachella Valley and enlisted volunteers such as Ruben Gonzalez, the mural project coordinator. Gonzalez is a private contractor who volunteers his time leading the project.

The mural timeline is a show of respect to the original idea and the original artists from 32 years ago, according to Gonzalez. Along with beautifying the community, the mural will also serve as an educational tool for the several local schools within walking distance as well as the rest of the youth in the Coachella Valley, and will serve to educate everyone about Mexican-American history via the timeline.

Since May of 2011, the city of Coachella has paid for all of the material and a $5,000 contribution by Goldenvoice was used to provide meals to artists as they bring the mural to life, Gonzalez said.

“Our responsibility to the artists and everyone involved is to just feed the artists,” Gonzalez said.

The mural is open to all artists in the Coachella Valley. Each artist is given a 50-foot portion of the timeline for their depiction. Once an artist creates his/her design, it must be approved by Gonzalez, John Duran, and Gabriel Perez, and then, the artist gets the green light to make his/her mark, Gonzalez said.

So far, there have been several talented artists, like Temo Aldrete of Cathedral City, whose freehand depiction of Mexican independence was done using spray paint. Gonzalez says that Frank Limas, an artist who recently enlisted into the United States Army, painted the depiction of the “Mexicano Folklore. He did Joaquin Murieta, Vasquez, and Gregorio Cortez. It took him about a month to do his but he had us out here at one or two in the morning,” Gonzalez said, with a chuckle.

Gonzalez is hoping to be able to finish the project before the summer hits this year, because of the heat. Most artists who painted in the summer, painted at night to avoid the harsh weather during the day, although the evenings aren’t much cooler. Gonzalez is reaching out to artists of all ages to help finish the wall. He is also seeking donations of money, food, and beverages for the artists.

For more information on the Shady Lane mural project and how to get involved, community members can visit “Culturas” on Facebook or at myspace.com/culturas.coachella.

By Rogelio Montaño
Coachella Unincorporated

I see it in both of my parents’ eyes. Exhaustion. Their long exasperated sighs when looking at bills that come in the mail don’t go unnoticed and I can’t help but feel utterly useless as a high school student. The financial burden that I’m sure many people in the Eastern Coachella Valley can relate to, is at times too much to bear; however, like other families in this region we try whatever we can to make ends meet. Strategies to save and earn money, as well as to be efficient with our financial decisions is a skill one must learn and become very adept at if you’re from a middle to lower class family, and especially during these times of economic struggles. My family is no exception. Our strategies to be as financially efficient as possible and to save a buck range from simply using less electrical appliances at home to buying used cars and selling them for profit.

For the last few months we’ve ventured into what could be called the underground economy. It’s a place where everything can seem shady and carries risks of its own and all as a means to avoid government scrutiny as well as to only be paid in cold, hard cash. Given the alternatives, many people decide it is better to go underground to make a quick buck and some even have full-fledged businesses. All of these factors lured my family into partaking in quick transactions that seemed to lead to a quick profit.

We soon learned that it isn’t as easy as it seemed to be, discovering just how much the economy has deteriorated for both buyers and sellers. Our first attempt was selling and buying used cars. Both of my parents would drive all the way to Anaheim to auctions where repossessed and used cars were sold, hoping in the midst of the beat up and worn down metal machines, to find one in which they could not only buy at a fair price, but sell at a reasonable profit. There were many occasions where they just came back home with nothing to show for their effort of making the long drive. We managed to make little profit on one car.

Feeling it was not worth the trial and error in the used car business, my father decided to go on a smaller scale instead and buy toys. It was the same process, in which he would go to auctions, however, the toys would come in bulk and most were used. We had our first garage sale and I guess you could say business was booming since it was around Christmas time and people were out hunting for potential gifts for their children, nieces, nephews, etc. The jovial mood disappeared once we found out that it would be nearly impossible to return the money spent.

Needless to say, we are currently just looking for our next possible financial venture in the underground economy, hoping success could be as simple as a garage sale away.

The Diary Of Joaquín Magón Entry 9: La Nueva Cosecha

Have you ever wondered about the gap between farm workers and their children? How many layers of disconnect do they have—between generation, culture, language, etc.? I certainly don’t know. Nor does the organizer that originally posed that question. But we’ve started to find that answer.

During a meeting, we asked our farm worker members about their children and they seemed to have been asked something so obvious yet so well hidden. The question: Where in waking before dawn, going to work, working 12 hours, getting home late, tired and wanting rest; where, in the equation for a routine, do their children come in?

To understand this question one must understand the sons and daughters of farm workers and the identities they carry—brown children, poor children, children that speak no English, undocumented children having to adapt to a new society, children born here having to balance two identities, indigenous children having to balance three identities, more if they identify as queer. They are children with no time to establish roots; children of intersectionality; daughters and sons who may or may not know the struggles of their parents—why they work the way they do and why they come home as tired as they do, or why their parents visit the office with the black eagle on it.

That is how La Nueva Cosecha, a group of about 10 high school and one middle school student with the objective of helping farm workers, began. At first it was nameless, as shapeless as an idea with a potential not quite understood. I don’t do this as part of my job, not as a group led by or supported by the UFW. I donate my afternoons to them.

Meetings lasted hours and no one was sure what exactly we wanted to do. But I began to understand that there is a need for these students to express themselves; that they had been passed over by society and they didn’t even know it, that they didn’t feel connected to groups that told them that college is how they wouldn’t turn out like their parents because these students are proud of their parents. They began to see that society looked down on them and they have to reclaim the dignity that comes with being a farm worker and a farm worker’s child.

We tried a number of things in those meetings, a mix between action-based activism and a more reflective, healing-based activism. They opened wounds and analyzed them in their short minutes of speaking. I was almost ashamed because I wasn’t more prepared to deal with this as a teacher, or a counselor, or as anything other than the person that provides them this space.

I feel they appreciated me not interjecting with answers or guidance like someone older than them would. I let them figure themselves out.

“Being part of Nueva Cosecha is inspiring because I get to help farm workers and in that way I am helping my mother as well because she’s a farm worker,” said Manuel Ontiveros, a high school senior and president of La Nueva Cosecha.

Ontiveros knows the struggles of his mother who works harvesting iceberg lettuce. “Her boss keeps pushing her harder and harder even though she’s doing everything perfectly. And even if she stands up to stretch, the foreman tells her to keep working. She stays most of the day bent over and that’s what keeps making her back hurt. She’s 40-something and she keeps working there because she doesn’t have any other options.”

Now they want to learn how to write blogs so I gave them an assignment, one I completed before that helped me appreciate the struggles of my mother. The assignment: Write where you come from. I explained that our stories do not start the day we are born; they started before, when our parents made the choice to emigrate, when they made the choice to stay in X community for X reasons and we are shaped by those decisions even though they were not our own.

The past few meetings have been organized around stopping the use of Methyl Iodide, a pesticide considered to be the most dangerous chemical on earth.
I don’t know where La Nueva Cosecha will go nor do I know the form that it will take. However it is inspiring to see high school and middle school students involved. This is how I hope to answer that original question about the connection between farm workers and their children—not by investigating the actual gap through the lens of an academic but, rather, by helping bridge that gap.

* “Joaquín Magón” is a youth reporter from Coachella living in Salinas and working for the United Farm Workers. He contributes blogs regularly for Coachella Unincorporated.

Students talking to farm workers about different issues they face in the fields.