Word: cesare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Munoz, New England coordinator for Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers Union, stayed well past closing time talking with a group of Puerto Ricans from the large public housing project opposite the supermarket. Speaking rapidly and easily in Spanish, he explained that DeMoulas was making lots of money on the Puerto Ricans in the neighborhood, but that there were no Puerto Ricans employed in the store, at least not in the front counters. Munoz, a disarmingly affable Mexican-American, spoke enthusiastically about the pressure the Puerto Ricans could bring against DeMoulas, urging them to help their fellow Spanish-speaking Americans...
That the union which he helped organize in 1962 has come far enough to mount an effective coordinated national effort in such a short time is a source of pride, almost awe to Munoz. He recalls first meeting Cesar Chavez in the early sixties: "He was just a bum like the rest of us. We were working down in Bakersfield picking potatoes. Chavez started talking around and we decided none of us could make it any longer on the wages we were getting. We knew we had to do something--get organized or something...
...organize migrant laborers. Illegal workers, the union charges, have been hired by union-hating farmers to break strikes. About 2,200 wetbacks have been arrested in the past six months in California's Kern County, the scene of a bitter strike against growers of table grapes organized by Cesar Chavez, leader of the farm workers. Other strikebreakers, the union alleges, have been recruited illegally from among "green-card" workers-aliens who hold U.S. residence permits but commute from Mexico. The going price for a forged green card, the union says, is a mere...
...somber and weighty too." His B Flat Major displays none of these characteristics. It is instead a pleasant, supple work, replete with gracefully phrased suggestions and intuitions, rather like prettified Wagner. Ernst Ansermet leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in an appropriately understated performance. Chausson was one of Cesar Franck's many dedicated disciples, and Les Bolides, a brief symphonic poem, shows that Franck is easily the more fluent composer...
...Unable to walk without aid, Chavez took Communion beside Bobby Kennedy, who later climbed onto a flatbed truck to address the crowd in a Codtown Castilian so tortured that he asked Chavez: "Am I ruining the language?" Finally, Kennedy settled for giving a simple cheer: "Viva la Causa! Viva Cesar Chavez,! Viva...