I saw Caesar Chavez speak one time (and one time only). He was urging a table grape boycott. It was a union led boycott over medical benefits and pay.
He played it up as a pesticides issue. When concerned college students asked if they needed to also be wary of eating California raisins or drinking California wines, he said no because that was a different union.
So much for the health of the workers or the consumers. I saw him as a big fraud and typical leftist.
He was compared to MLK Jr. but I don't see the similarity (although MLK also had his movement co-opted to address economics at the end of his life).
Rush just asked who was involved in putting all these folks in the streets?
To me, it looks like Unions, activist churches, ANSWER, and the ACLU make for quite a combination. It's amazing our country has survived as long as it has with "citizens" like them working behind the scenes to under cut the laws of this nation.
A photo of Cesar Chavez is on display as Reverend Gabino Zavala conducts a service in honor of the late Cesar Chavez at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels Sunday. The service followed a march from Los Angeles and Temple in front of the Federal building protesting H.R. 4437 legislation that would toughen immigration (Hans Gutknecht/Staff Photographer)
I too heard Ceasar Chavez back in the earyly 70's.
I was moved by him and thought of him as a great leader for all concered at the time. We were working under conditions that were extremly poor. Pay was small and of course no health benefits. Actually it was no work no pay.
As I see many kids out protesting today, I wish there was someone to help cordinate or oversee this. I would like all latin kids to be able to see the big picture of where we the latin people before them have come from.