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Drawing on his experiences in Mississippi, Ganz played a key role in organizing grass roots movements for the Chavez's United Farm Workers (UFW...
...Jacques Levy's Cesar Chavez, the legendary UFW founder remembers meeting Marshall Ganz...
Ganz was eventually elected to the nine-person executive committee of the UFW. And then, in 1968, at the request of presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy, Ganz helped direct a massive get-out-the-vote campaign in California...
Ganz's interest in politics led him to campaign for Jerry Brown in the late 1970s. And by 1981, he had left the UFW to work with other unions and political campaigns full time...
AGAINST ALL THESE injustices and many more, the UFW and Cesar Chavez in 1984 called their third boycott of California table grapes. In 1987, the boycott received the resources it desperately needed to get off the ground and become effective. One year later, in 1988, Chavez embarked on his third water fast since 1968, "The Fast for Life...