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No Grapes
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
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 Farm Workers - SF Protest
Date: 11/13/1992Call Number: CV 259AFormat: Cass AProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Interviews with UFW demonstrators who are protesting pesticide use on grapes. Grape growers are selling their produce overseas since sales are down in the US. Cesar Chavez discuss his efforts to raise awareness about pesticides and their health effects among Hong Kong consumers. He also talks about how NAFTA may influence union organizing.
Cesar Chavez Interview
Cesar Chavez explains how police prevented him and his followers from organizing people to boycott grapes because of their contamination by extremely dangerous pesticides. He also describes arrests of protesters including Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.
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