Luis Magaña Has Spent 20 Years Advocating for Farmworkers, But He’s Never Seen Anything Like This

Every year, Luis Magaña organizes a Day of the Dead ceremony to honor farmworkers in California’s San Joaquin Valley who died on the job. This year, record wildfires and the ongoing pandemic have taken a high toll on agricultural workers, and Magaña isn’t sure how many deaths he’ll have to honor. One thing he is sure about is that farmworkers need much better protections.