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My Mexican father reminds me a lot of my own father in Dillingham, Alaska born and raised in a small fishing community and always eager to share information about that land. They are both small, non-white men with no formal education past high school. Men in another time would play a much different role in life. However because of the circumstances of today, my Dad skates through random jobs and mi padre en Parras works at one of the local denim factories - Dickies. (In one of my classes we discussed that if you are consuming something that you cannot produce and are relying on other people to do that for you, this is enslavement. We toured the factories here; no one should have to spend their day with the constant drone of machinery, cotton so thick in the air you can taste it and no natural light, creating jeans that after a month's wages you still can't afford to buy.)
It will be weeks or maybe years before I can fully take in all the new experiences from this trip. Being here where white people are the minority, where I have left many comforts from home, where people have taken me in so warmly even though I was a stranger, has given me the drive to travel to other lands. I will never forget this place.
The following is a website that could be used as a resource for information about appropriate technology and also has a link called “gallery” that will take you to a site filled with pictures from this program-- http://www.pequals.com/at/.
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