{"id":1973,"date":"2024-07-22T14:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/latinoroots.uoregon.edu\/?post_type=aiovg_videos&#038;p=1973"},"modified":"2024-07-22T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2024-07-22T21:12:53","slug":"pedro-a-journey-to-activism","status":"publish","type":"aiovg_videos","link":"https:\/\/latinoroots.uoregon.edu\/aiovg_videos\/pedro-a-journey-to-activism\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedro: A Journey to Activism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Pedro: A Journey to Activism <\/em>by Liesl Cohn De Le\u00f3n<\/p>\n<p>Pedro, a 37-year-old Mayan-Chuj from Nent\u00f3n, Huehuetenango, arrived in Oregon as a teenager. He worked in nurseries and the grape and blueberry fields for several years. In 2019, there was a car accident where Pedro\u2019s cousins died and his father went into a severe coma for several months. Two years after that tragedy, in 2021, Pedro\u2019s uncle died working in the fields due to extreme heat. The organization Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (PCUN) helped Pedro to overcome these difficult times, providing him with emotional and legal support, which made him reflect on the lives of his <em>paisanos<\/em>, so he decided he wanted to help other indigenous farmworkers who experience the same difficulties for them to learn their rights. Now, Pedro works as an indigenous leader and activist at PCUN with the Guatemalan community in Woodburn.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Producer&#8217;s Bio:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 9.0pt 0in 9.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"color: black;\">Liesl Cohn De Le\u00f3n is a Cultural Anthropology doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon. Her current research is about&nbsp;how Guatemalan Maya migrants in Oregon build their identities and sense of community in this new territory as a process of construction of collective memory.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Synopsis: Pedro: A Journey to Activism by Liesl Cohn De Le\u00f3n Pedro, a 37-year-old Mayan-Chuj from Nent\u00f3n, Huehuetenango, arrived in Oregon as a teenager. He worked in nurseries and the grape and blueberry fields for several years. 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