Word: ortiz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When time came for me to get a few hours sleep, at around 10 or 11 each night, I would go to the home of the Ortizes, an older couple I was living with who had been farmworkers all their lives, and staunch supporters of the union for many years. During the time we had to talk, I learned of their struggle for the union; in the spring of 1973, when the hard won 3-year UFW contracts expired, the growers signed new contracts with the Teamsters. The UFW went out on strike; the reaction of Kern County was violent...
Philadelphia: Tough-Guy Style A federal grand jury last week indicted three Philadelphia policemen for violating the civil rights of Machinist Edgardo Ortiz, 26. One night last June, according to eyewitnesses, the cops rapped on Ortiz's glass front door and demanded to question him about a report of a family disturbance. When Ortiz angrily protested, they smashed through the glass and pummeled him with fists and clubs in the presence of his wife and three-year-old daughter. Next, neighbors reported, the cops tossed Ortiz through a window, handcuffed him and threw him into a police van. They...
...Ortiz case seems to be all too typical in Philadelphia. Police have also been accused of severely beating a black gas-station owner, a white college student and a British musician. In July, a cop with a previous record of assault shot and killed José Reyes, 28, a former mental patient, in the doorway of his home. The police say he was threatening the cop, but a witness told TIME Correspondent James Willwerth that Reyes had stumbled and "was goin' in the house on all fours" when the policeman, .standing over him, fired twice. The episode inflamed Reyes...
Ordinary people convey a sense of confidence that things will work out eventually, that they still have opportunities to grow. Ortiz has uncles in Chicago, parents in Añasco, friends in San Juan. "Maybe some day it will be Chicago for me," he says...
After 25 years in the States, he and his wife have simply decided that "it is time to go back." The continental connection gives people like Nelson Ortiz and Rafael Cruz-as well as Rafael Hernández and Carlos Romero-time and choices...