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![No Grapes](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1992Call Number: V 050Format: VHSProducers: American Farm Workers of AmericaCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In small farming communities across California, children are dying. Birth defects--open spines and missing limbs--are common. And childhood cancer is 1200 percent above the national average. The cause: the 8 million pounds of unnecessary toxic pesticides used on table grapes each year- pesticides that the corporate growers refuse to stop using despite the rising loss of human life.
Cesar Chavez and a host of celebrities, farmworkers and parents show us, as consumers, how we can fight back against these oil based poisons.
![Dr. Marian Moses interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Dr. Marian Moses of the Pesiticide Education Center talks about the dangers of chemicals used in industrial farming pose to farmworkers and their children in California. She emphasizes the disproportionate number of deaths among migrant farmworkers' children from lukemia because of pesticide use in the fields.
![United Framer Workers: Boycott Against Safeway- 1](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/20/1989Call Number: CV 247Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Cesar Chavez, along with other organizers and community leaders demand that Safeway stop selling grapes grown with pesticides. Chavez explains that the pesticides are contributing to cancer among farm workers.
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