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Originally La Cansa received much of its energy from the farm worker movement led by Cesar Chavez, but it has grown to engulf the struggle of nearly all seven-and-a-half million Chicanos, eighty per cent of whom live in cities. It is a monumental struggle-social, economic, political, educational, and psychological in nature-which has the no less ambitious goal of providing full self-determination for the Chicano people. It is a struggle which, though it wants to attain a fairly universal goal, will have to develop new forms and means to achieve it. It is not like...
...Industrial Areas Foundation Training Institute-among them Black Panthers, Catholic priests, middle-class community workers, militant Indians, and student radicals-has been less successful than he hoped when he opened the school. He has had more success in organizing than in training organizers. His most famous student, Cesar Chavez, seems to be an exception to the rule. As for Alinsky's tactics: they are at times notoriously unorthodox. He once forced the city administration of Chicago to live up to its commitments to the Woodlawn ghetto community organization by threatening to have his people occupy all the toilets and urinals...
There will be an inspirational rally" on Sunday, May 2, led by Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers, George Wiley from National Welfare Rights Organization, Ralph Abernathy of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and Jane Fonda, who has been one of the most successful fund raisers the anti-war movement has ever...
Aside from the obvious candidates-such as Albert M. Sacks, acting dean of the Law School-the list includes less likely deans such as Cesar Chavez, William Kunstler and Ralph Nader. There are no women on the list, which is made up of 34 professors, three judges and seven "outsiders...
...moratorium on the boycott was announced by Cesar Chavez, leader of the UFWOC, after George Meany, president of the AFL-CIO, and Frank E. Fitzsimmons, president of the Teamsters, agreed to submit disputes between the two national unions to binding arbitration. The UFWOC, a member of the AFL-CIO, has been challenging the jurisdiction of the Teamsters to represent lettuce pickers...