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The [F]law: California Farmers are Hoarding the State’s Water Resources

April 22, 2023

Agricultural interests dominate California’s political scene and the state’s water supply. Meanwhile, many farmworker communities in the Central Valley go without water. Without reform soon, California is headed into a dire water catastrophe.

Read Isa Badia Bellinger‘s compelling article on The [F]law:  “California Farmers are Hoarding the State’s Water Resources.”

Related Systemic Justice Project Resources

From The [F]law:

  • Reem Hindi Hussein, The Modern American Slavery: Temporary Worker Exploitation and the Human Supply Chain.
  • Amelia Keyes, Seeking Environmental Justice in the U.S. Virgin Islands: St. Croix’s Battle with an Oil Refinery that Refuses to Die.
  • Liz Turner, Land is a bank account: A journey into the polluted heart(land) of American agriculture.
  • Jeremiah Scanlan, Secrets of the Heartland: The Battle To See Inside Iowa’s Factory Farms.

 

From The Systemic Justice Journal:

  • HLS Student, Of Humans, for Humans, and by Smithfield: How corporate law helps enable us to eat pigs comfortably.
  • Elizabeth MeLampy, Fowl Play: Corporate Law and the Chicken Industry.
  • Tala Doumani, From the Public Charter to Private Power: Corporations, Slavery, and the Cotton Industry in the 19th Century.

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In Categories: Agriculture Blog Capture Climate Corporate Power Economic Injustice Environmental Injustice Food The [F]law Water
In Tags: agricultural capitalism agriculture capture corporate power water
In Subject Areas: Agriculture Climate Change Economic Injustice Environment Food Water
In Content Types: Student Papers
In Intersections: Climate Justice Immigration Justice Wealth / Income Justice

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