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...your liberal consciousness has been raised you check the label, see Modesto, California (most California wines don't list the winery or put a UFW seal of approval on the label), hurl the bottle at the wall and scream that Gallo cannot deveive those who are aware! All Modesto wines are produced at Ernest and Julio's family winery...
...maybe you quote, from a 1975 UFW advertisement headlined "There's blood on those grapes: This isn't a fight between two unions. It isn't even a fight between labor and management. We're fighting for our lives. Because we need our union to survive. And we think the Gallos and the other grape-growers are guilty of union-busting...
...When I first came to Harvard (in the Spring of 1970) the strong Catholic left was at its peak, there was of course the war and the UFW strike, but by the time we were fired I knew it was time for a change. I no longer wanted to be an official representative of the Catholic Church because it was so oppressive. There is must so little understanding and sympathy for public roles of women from the hierarchy of the Church...
...Yolanda Gonzalez is the assistant to the dean of student affairs. The college offers courses in Chicano history and literature, both taught by Chicano faculty members. And Yale provides its Chicanos with approximately $10,000 each year for recruitment efforts, a speakers' forum featuring prominent Chicano figures such as UFW's Dolores Huerta, and the expenses of an exclusively Chicano dormitory...
Separated from the barrios of Los Angeles and San Antonio and the strife-ridden fields of the San Joaquin Valley by 3000 miles, politicized Chicanos encounter a dilemna at Harvard--the absence of issues that directly concern their community. While some RAZA members do participate in UFW-sponsored pickets of local supermarkets, the organization has chosen to focus its energies on recruiting to expand the size of the Chicano community on campus...