Photography Exhibits
Photo from "Rebellion on the Border," photographs by David BaconExhibit at U.C. Berkeley Institute of Industrial Relations 9/1/2002-1/15/2003, photo 11 of 16
Mexicali, 1996
Mari sits on a chair by the window in her family's
new one-room house, with walls of mud and timber and
a concrete
floor. Her sister Cecilia and her mother sit on the bed. Mari's
parents don't have enough money
to send them to school. They live
in the heart of the green onion district of the Mexicali Valley,
where $50 million
of green onions are grown and exported to the
U.S. every year.