Reblogged by technomancy@icosahedron.website ("tech? no! man, see..."):
Anarkat@hackers.town ("Anarkat, Mad Engineer‽") wrote:
I never did end up expanding on this idea, but now that I've gotten some rest, I can.
Why do I think that anti-fascists fly mexican flags in Wenatchee?
Alright, so when I was driving through Wenatchee, I noticed cars driving around with full-sized mexican flags. I took note of it. It's an interesting and weird bit of information. Central Washington is a very long way to go from mexico for a mexican immigrant community to establish itself.
After a few more hours driving west, I finally puzzled through it.
Wenatchee, and the surrounding areas, are orchard country. Wenatchee runs along the Columbia river, and the water there feeds orchards. This area is massively dependent on immigrant labor to harvest the orchards.
As I was driving through wenatchee, I noticed every single orchard with "workers needed" signs on them.
But what I noticed a conspicuous absence of? Trump flags. Not a single trump flag in the Wenatchee area.
What I think is going on in wenatchee, is the lack of immigrant labor is allowing mexican immigrant laborers to exercise labor power. The mexican flags they're flying from their cars are a sort of labor strike declaration.
What the mexican flags are saying is "you need us, and you need our labor, and we know what those trump flags mean, and if you fly those trump flags, you will have absolutely no one to harvest your crops."