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...many members of the Harvard community, the most significant outcome of the controversy surrounding the grape referendum has nothing to do with the bite-size fruit...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grapes Bring Activism Back | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

Adam R. Kovacevich '99, whose family owns a grape farm in Bakersfield, Calif., has been a leader of the pro-grape faction...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grapes Bring Activism Back | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

...founded the Grape Coalition, an ad hoc committee, to inform students about labor conditions and environmental standards in grape cultivation, issues which have been attacked by boycott supporters...

Author: By Jacqueline A. Newmyer, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Grapes Bring Activism Back | 12/4/1997 | See Source »

...Grape Workers and Farmers Coalition (GFWC) is founded by a Republican-affiliated consulting group. Its purpose is to oppose UFW boycotts. The UFW protests the use of methyl bromide, phosdrin, dinoseb, parathion and captan as pesticides in the fields...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UFW Efforts Since '65 | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

Chavez passes away in April. Critics reviewing his life say he lost touch with the workers as he grew older. Arturo Rodriguez succeeds him as UFW President and organizes a march through grape country to reconnect the UFW with the workers. The grape boycott is no longer actively pursued...

Author: By Gregory S. Krauss, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: UFW Efforts Since '65 | 12/3/1997 | See Source »

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