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...group of students supporting the United Farm Workers Union (UFW) boycott of grapes met Thursday night to discuss ways of encouraging other students to join the protest...
...There are really good things going on [with the boycott]," said Sue M. Johnson '91-'92, the group's other co-chair. "If consumers could cut into sales 9 percent, the growers will have to listen," said Johnson, who spent the summer in California working for UFW...
Chavez, the leader of the United Farm Workers (UFW), said the University should join such schools as the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and Mount Holyoke to ban the grapes, which are treated with pesticides harmful to farm laborers...
Chavez said a consumer boycott was the only effective way for the UFW to force grape growers to stop using what it considers carcinogenic pesticides. "The boycott works," Chavez said repeatedly...
...UFW were] the first ones to ban the use of pesticides...such as DDT...anywhere in the whole, wide world," the activist leader said...