Word: chicano
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Members of women's organizations from the Medical School and the School of Education, in addition to Chicano un-dergraduates and women from Lowell House, attended the meeting to voice suggestions about the merger...
...scenes are straight out of the great grape strike of the late 1960s. In Southern California's Coachella Valley, Chicano laborers again cry "Viva la Huelga" (long live the strike) at flashy sedans roaring through vineyard gates, and priests who join them are arrested for illegal picketing. Cesar Chavez again summons his workers to talk up a grape boycott. But this time, his opposition is not confined to the growers whom he signed to contracts three years ago. Now Chavez's still tiny United Farm Workers Union (28,000 members at the end of 1972) is locked...
...course, is the passionate loyalty of many of its members. Some migrants, however, have complained about the union's inefficient management. Hiring halls, for instance, have sometimes broken up family work teams. The Teamsters do have some support among field hands, largely from Filipinos who resent the Chicano-dominated U.F.W. Chavez believes that a heavy majority of workers would choose the U.F.W. in a free vote, but he has no way of forcing...
...Hallet's crime was merely to forge the travelers checks of a dead man--no great loss. What would have made for a much more horrifying film would have been a story of Dr. Hallet--vis a vis 1973--conducting his research with hundreds of black or Chicano subjects. The film credits would have read: "This is a true story although the names of the characters have been changed to protect the innocent and the not-so innocent...
...then there was the doctor investigating the side effects of the pill. In his zeal to prove that the side effects were largely psychosomatic, he prescribed a sugar placebo to unknowing Chicano women who had approached him for the contraceptive. The game ended when, nine months later, they all gave birth to unwanted babies...