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...disagreement between two students over the grape boycott escalated into an e-mail exchange between two campus organizations early Saturday afternoon...
...mail exchange began after anti-grape supporter Edgar Saldivar '99, who is Mexican-American, was verbally accosted Saturday morning by a pro-grape advocate, who is white, while copying anti-grape posters at Gnomon Copy...
Saldivar said that the student claimed he was a Republican and had read an e-mail from a Republican organization that said that the grape boycott...
...told me [in reference to the anti-grape posters Saldivar was copying], 'I don't want to read that crap,"' Saldivar said. "I replied, 'you don't have to'....He just continued to verbally assault me using curse words...
...boycott that is effective today, however, the international table grape boycott, was issued by the UFW in 1984 to continue to fight for humane working conditions. But little has changed since the first and second boycot. Nearly one-third of the workforce is under 16 years old, and many of these workers paid less than minimum wage. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that the average income of a farm worker's family is less than $5,000 a year. Farmworkers are seldom supplied with toilets or even drinking water while working...