Jameson County Recruitment Thread

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Character Name: Ricardo "Ricky" Castanada

Area: Georgeville

Political Party: Unaffiliated (self-identifies as a Trotskyist, if you press him about it)

Religion: Atheist

Occupation: Ricky does just about everything there is to do at the local grocery store, from bagging groceries for little old ladies (and helping them to their cars) to stocking shelves and unloading trucks. All of this is secondary to what he's actually doing, of course.

Description: Ricardo Castanada is a first generation American, having immigrated to the United States with his parents shortly after his fourth birthday. His mother has spent most of her working life as a farm laborer in Georgeville; his father had likewise worked as a farm laborer before spiraling into alcoholism and passing away shortly before Ricky turned eighteen.

Ricky has also supported the family financially since he's been able to do so, working part-time for the local grocer until he enlisted in the Army upon his eighteenth birthday. After a two year tour of duty in Afghanistan (and an honorable discharge on account of an injury), Ricky has returned home to Georgeville a changed man. Radicalized by the conflict (and by more than one subversive pamphlet a fellow soldier sent his way), he's come home and gotten into contact with an old high school buddy of his, Jenny Rivera. Rivera has spent the last two years delving into the intricacies of left-wing politics and gotten into union organizing herself; she's attempting to organize farm workers in Georgeville, a herculean task that has led to more than one round of farm worker firings/deportations in the past.

Taking in everything he can from her, Ricky has decided that the best way to make sense out of a senseless world is to get involved in the struggle himself. And as such, he's going to use his now (full-time) job as a grocery store worker as a means of being a full-time union organizer, and as a way of changing the world in his very own way.