| Last additions - > JON LEWIS: "1966 CESAR CHAVEZ AND HIS NFWA" |
06A GRAPE WORKER DRESSED FOR THE HARVEST WORK IN THE HUNDRED DEGREE SUMMER HEAT. THE CLOTHING IS NEEDED TO PROTECT THE WORKER FROM WASPS AND BEES, FROM THE PENETRATING DUST OF THE FIELDS, AND FROM THE RESIDUES OF PESTICIDES AND FUMIGANTS THAT HAVE BEEN USED ON THE VINES DURING THE GROWING SEASON. THIS WORKER COULD BE A MAN OR WOMAN.Jan 31, 2008
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07CESAR CHAVEZ FOUNDED HIS NFWA (National Farm Workers Association) IN 1962. HE WAS A MASTERFUL ORGANIZER - SOFT-SPOKEN, AN INTENTIONAL AND FOCUSED LISTENER - HE WAS AT HIS BEST WHEN ORGANIZING ONE-ON-ONE, AND HE MADE A LASTING IMPRESSION ON PEOPLE.Jan 31, 2008
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08THE NFWA WAS BUILT ON SERVICE TO ITS MEMBERSHIP. COUNTLESS HOURS WERE SPENT ONE-ON-ONE WITH MEMBERS HELPING THEM NAVIGATE SOCIAL SERVICE AND GOVERNMENT AGENCIES, AND SERVED AS AN ADVOCATE. MEMBERS WERE ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THE FARMWORKER CREDIT UNION, THE FUNERAL BURIAL PROGRAM, AND IN THE DREAM OF CESAR CHAVEZ TO CREATE A UNION FOR FARMWORKERS.Jan 31, 2008
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09LARRY ITLIONG WAS AN ORGANIZER WITH THE AFL-CIO-SPONSORED AWOC (Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee). IT WAS LARRY WHO ORGANIZED THE FILIPINO WORKERS TO GO ON STRIKE IN THE MIDDLE OF SEPTEMBER 1965 DURING THE HARVEST OF DELANO AREA TABLE GRAPES.Jan 31, 2008
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10AWOC WAS COMPOSED MOSTLY OF FILIPINO WORKERS WHO WERE FIRST IMPORTED BY CALIFORNIA AGRIBUSINESS IN THE 1920'S AND 1930'S TO WORK IN THE AGRICULTURAL FIELDS. IMPORTED AS YOUNG, UNMARRIED MALE-ONLY WORKERS, IT WAS NOT UNTIL AFTER WORLD WAR II THAT THEY WERE PERMITTED TO MARRY OR OWN PROPERTY, AS A RESULT, MOST OF THE FILIPINO FARMWORKERS WERE BACHELORS - BUT NOT BY CHOICE. IN 1965, EVERYONE ASSOCIATED WITH THE FARMWORKER MOVEMENT, AFFECTIONATELY REFERRED TO THESE AWOC MEMBERS AS THE FILIPINO BROTHERS.Jan 31, 2008
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