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...work dealing with the enormous problems with the environment caused by these pesticides must continue. We believe that the only place that can be done is at the marketplace," Chavez said...
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, the leader of the United Farm Workers (UFW), said the University should join such schools as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Mount Holyoke to ban the grapes, which are treated with pesticides harmful to farm laborers...
...marketplace where we make legislation," Chavez said. "It is at the marketplace where the union was born, it is there that the union will continue to be," Chavez told the audience of more than 100 students and members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW...
...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...