“I don’t think you can be an activist unless you can be an organizer. I never felt comfortable talking about anything unless I’d developed an organization, and helped a lot of people say this is what it is. That’s what we did. We organized and then we spoke from that truth, that foundation. I think you need a foundation and that comes through organizing.” — Rebecca Flores
Rebecca Flores: Under the South Texas Sun is a documentary film and digital humanities website, currently in production with VoxFem. It tells the story of Texas native, Rebecca Flores, who organized some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in South Texas — farmworkers, refugees, the displaced, and the poor. Rebecca is part of the hidden legacy of Mexican-American, Indigenous, and working-class resistance to labor exploitation, dispossession, and violence in a state that prides itself on its cultural heritage. Texas claims to be the world’s 9th largest economy of nations and has less than 5% union density.
