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La Cucaracha speaks for the disenfranchised with humor and a cutting voice
It is no accident that farm workers have an average life span of forty-nine years of age.
The CSO nationally has taken the position of being against the further importation of labor from other countries.
Testimony on Farm Workers (1960)
The social and economic revolution of the farm workers is well under way and will not be stopped until they receive equality.
The health care of farmworkers is almost nonexistent, and the rate of tuberculosis is 200 percent above the national average.
The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)
There have been incidents of violence against the union, many of them, and it has taken all that Cesar can do and the rest of the people can do to keep workers nonviolent.
The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)
Historically, stories of revolutionary women have been minimized or even left untold.
Reflections on Revolutionary Women (2020)
The difference between 1959 and 1966 is highlighted by the peregrination, it is revolution-the farm workers have been organized.
Certainly, some responsibility should be placed back on the growers. It’s not fair that they should declare a labor shortage when they make it impossible for people to continue working for them.
Testimony on Farm Workers (1960)
The police harassment against the strikers is unbelievable. We have to say that the police departments and sheriffs departments are in most cases direct agents of the employers.
The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)
Can we live in a world of brotherhood and peace without disease and fear and oppression? Si se puede
Would our govt by any stretch of the imagination furnish imported labor to any other occupation if the working conditions were anywhere near the condition of farm workers?
Testimony on Farm Workers (1960)
I think that the one thing that we've learned in our union is that you don't wait. You just get out and you start doing things.
Now, some of you might wonder how come I have ten children, right? One of the main reasons is because I want to have my own picket line.
The complete lack of protection and vulnerability of farm workers should not be minimized
Testimony on Farm Workers (1960)
Now another great thing about our clinics is that we train farm workers as lab assistants, lab technicians, nurse's aides, we train farm workers to do the administration of the clinic.
DOD table grape purchases are a national outrage. The history of our struggle against agribusiness is punctuated by the continued violations of health and safety codes by growers, including many table grape growers.
The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)
When we try to go to the Government for any kind of help, even for the enforcement of the sanitation laws. the Government turns its head.
The Boycott is Our Major Weapon (1969)
The workers are on the rise. There will be strikes all over the state and throughout the country because Delano has shown what can be done, and the workers know now they are no longer alone.
Do you know that we were amazed to find out you can get all kinds of information about what's harmful to a pet, but you can't get any information about what's harmful to a farm worker?