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Discussing "Milked: How an American Crisis Brought Together Midwestern Dairy Farmers and Mexican Workers," new book, with Norman Stockwell, on the patio. Click through for livestream options.

Isthmus Picks for July 18-21 includes "The Planets & Ho-Chunk" at Concerts on the Square, a Peace Corps 60th anniversary event.

Ruth Conniff’s Milked explores the bonds between Midwest dairy farmers and their Mexican workers.

In her new book, Ruth Conniff looks deeply into the lives of people on both sides of the U.S./Mexico border who, as she puts it, “have been thrown together by global economic forces beyond their control.”

In Milked, journalist Ruth Conniff explores how American reliance on Mexican labor has bonded two seemingly opposed groups.