Word: california
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...corps of assistant coaches that hail from as far away as southern California and as close to home as Norwood, Mass, the Crimson cagers draw from a wealth of basketball experience...
...have a small student population that has been extremely supportive," Stuebner remarked. "I'd like to thank those kids that have been with us the whole way. We've even been getting phone calls at the office from people who want tickets for the game out in California this week...
Today, more than 15 campus groups are coming together to sponsor a talk concerning the working conditions of strawberry farm workers in California. Speakers will include Professors Cornel West and John Womack, long-time activist Sister Tess Browne and two worker activists. The talk is meant to raise awareness on campus of the attempts to unionize strawberry workers by the United Farm Workers...
...past several years, the UFW has been trying to unionize the 20,000 strawberry workers in California. Every effort to do so has been met with vicious resistance by the strawberry growers. Initially, attempts were made to organize single farms. Each time a farm was successfully unionized, however, the growers used tactics such as plowing under fields to prevent the union from becoming established...
...this date, four of the seven largest supermarket chains in the country have endorsed the UFW pledge. The shift of the UFW campaign from a local struggle to a national attempt to generate pressure on the growers makes our role as students, located far from the strawberry fields of California, important...