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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, once again, the UFW' is back in town, and is asking consumers to boycott yet another brand name: Red Coach Lettuce. Why are the farm workers asking their friends to answer yet another call for support? "Because what began as a traditional economic dispute between labor and management has turned into another attempt by growers to crush the union." UFW President Cesar Chavez says. "Because agribusiness has not really accepted the idea of free collective bargaining. Because many growers still hope to destroy...

Author: By Julie Mondaca, | Title: Stop the Red Coach | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...succeeded where others failed because, Chavez says, "We told the growers, 'OK, if you bring in strikebreakers, we'll boycott you.' So the farm workers have turned to what Chavez calls "our court of last resort, the American people," with an international boycott of Red Coach iceberg lettuce...

Author: By Julie Mondaca, | Title: Stop the Red Coach | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...Stop the Red Coach" is now the UFW slogan being publicized in 11 boycott cities across the nation. Critics of the union claim that Chavez is going to have quite a struggle this time around convincing the American public to make any type of sacrifice (however minimal). After all, this is the "Age of Apathy," and the "Me Generation." These critics however, are silenced by proof that a consumer boycott can be successful in 1979. In the Boston area alone, five out of six super-markets agreed to honor the boycott of Red Coach lettuce. Purity Supreme, Demulas, Fernandez, Capital...

Author: By Julie Mondaca, | Title: Stop the Red Coach | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

Unfortunately for coach Pappy Hunt and the women's cross country team Foram didn't get much of a chance to show her heels in Ivy League competition that first Fall. Halfway through the season she developed a severe case of achilles tendonitis...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Versatile Runner Recovers to Pace Harriers | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

...junior year, the sopt-spoken Falmouth native takes no unnecessary risks with her natural gifts. Her practice sessions, like those of several other teammates, are carefully tailored by assistant coach John Babbington to avoid the unnatural stress that so often causes problems in runners...

Author: By Michelle D. Healy, | Title: Versatile Runner Recovers to Pace Harriers | 11/7/1979 | See Source »

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