Word: grapes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING early last week Marcos Munoz and four fellow California farmworkers stood in front of DeMoulas's Supermarket in Lawrence, Mass., asking patrons to shop elsewhere. DeMoulas had twice broken a promise to Munoz that he would stop carrying grapes for the duration of the national grape boycott, so the farmworkers decided to picket the store until DeMoulas signed a written agreement...
...evil but demands immediate action to eradicate it. An example of contemporary folk art, the Teatro has traveled the dusty roads of California's San Joachin Valley for three years, giving artistic moral support to the strike of César Chávez's Mexican-American grape pickers. The players encourage a revivalist atmosphere of hand clapping and shouting. "We like to make noise," says Director Valdez, who studied drama at San Jose State College, "because society does not allow us to make noise." Like Valdez, most of the other guerrilla players are convinced that sooner...
...Nixon for President headquarters in Boston will be picketed tomorrow by protesters demonstrating against the Republican candidate's opposition to the California grape pickers' strike...
According to Ross, Boyd J. Britton, administrative vice-president of Radcliffe, agreed yesterday to send the same statement to the Guimarra Grape Company that L. Gard Wiggins, vice-president of Harvard, authorized last Friday. The statement said "Grapes are not on the menu and will not be on the menu in the foreseeable future...
Harvard could have openly and gracefully agreed to join the grape boycott. By doing the right thing for the wrong reason, the University needlessly chose to be timid rather than responsible...