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WHEN Cesar Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers, spoke at Lowell and Adams House last week, he asked students to join a nationwide ban of California grapes and called on the dining halls to boycott them as well...
Harvard students should participate in a national boycott of California grapes and urge the dining halls to stop serving them, farm worker activisit Cesar Chavez said at a speech at Lowell House last night...
Chavez said a consumer boycott was the only effective way for the UFW to force grape growers to stop using what it considers carcinogenic pesticides. "The boycott works," Chavez said repeatedly...
Chavez said the purpose behind the boycott is not to eliminate the grape growers' market entirely but to cut back on grape sales by about 11 percent. Such a fall in sales would persuade grape growers to deal with the union but would not hurt the grape worker, Chavez said...
...radical group called the Marxist Party; she has poured much of her income into its causes and four times stood as a candidate for Parliament representing the Workers' Revolutionary Party. That commitment helps explain why she has endured for more than a decade an unannounced but unmistakable boycott by much of the American entertainment business...