FIOB Statewide meeting, 2013, Image 2 | Reunión estatal del FIOB, 2013, Imagen 2

SANTA MARIA, CA - 12/1/13 - Indigenous Mexican immigrants in California meet iin a statewide meeting of the Binational Front of Indigenous Organizations (FIOB - Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales). FIOB advocates for the rights of indigenous Mexicans, including Mixtecs, Zapotecs, Triquis, Purepechas and others, both in the United States, where they live as immigrants, and in Mexico. At the meeting delegates elected new leaders, welcomed striking farmworkers from Sakuma Berry Farms in Washington State, and signed an agreement with United Food and Commercial Workers Local 5. They raise their arms in salute when they take their oath of office. Copyright David Bacon