Word: causa
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hero, but he's a gifted survivor and a natural-born fink. In return for forgetting what he knows of an assassination attempt by a company thug on the union leader, Leroy is promoted to foreman, and he loses touch with his worker friends in La Causa as quickly as he lost his accent...
...United Farm Workers union is on the move, still powerful, still convinced of eventual victory, but a victory which will be hard-won. La Causa continues the good fight, in the fields where a massive organizing effort is underway, on the picket lines, over the conference table with intransigent growers, and in the day-to-day scramble to survive. Yet those of us who assumed the strike had been won are needed again. The great majority of people who pick the food for our tables are still unprotected by a union contract, still subjected to brutal work conditions in order...
...want to thank the Crimson for reviewing my book, Cesar Chavez: Autobiography of La Causa. It's nice to be noted...
Unfortunately, Levy in Autobiography of La Causa has failed to bring out many of the latent elements in Chavez's personality. Levy's sympathy for Chavez and his cause (La Causa) has kept him from either asking Chavez the hard questions that would develop these themes or developing them on his own in a critical perspective...
...Viva La Causa! Flora Haas