As we continue to work toward being an anti-racist/pro-reconciling church, we have turned our attention to our Latinx siblings. On October 13th, we will discuss the documentary “Fruits of Labor”. This film is available to watch on PBS.org at https://www.pbs.org/pov/watch/fruitsoflabor/.

Fruits of Labor follows Ashley Solis, a Mexican-American teenager living in an agricultural town on the central coast of California. Ashley dreams of graduating high school and going to college, but when ICE raids in her community threaten to separate her family, Ashley is forced to become the breadwinner of her family, working days in the strawberry fields and the night shift at a food processing company.

Tracing the tensions between family bonds and the systems that work to sever them, Fruits of Labor explores how Ashley navigates her own dreams and aspirations with her obligations to her mother and siblings. This coming-of-age story is a meditation on growing up, the seen and unseen forces that trap families in poverty, and coming into one’s own as a working woman in the wealthiest nation in the world. Filming the struggle of the laborers who feed America to feed themselves, Fruits of Labor offers a new narrative about women workers that highlights how the global food system intersects with gender and family life.

If you have not been participating in previous movie discussions, we want to welcome you to this conversation. Please email Meg Sumowiec or Pastor Leslie so we can send you the discussion questions.

We will be meeting using the same Zoom link we use for Sunday morning worship.