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![Oscar Mondragon - Frank Curil Interview](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 4/6/1988Call Number: CV 263Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Oscar Mondragon and Frank Curil discuss the UFW's third major grape boycott. Curil explains the union's stance on workers' rights, the new method of boycotting and the health risk of pesticides.
![UFW Rally](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 10/19/1988Call Number: CV 274Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Protesting the failure of the grand jury to investigate Dolores Huerta’s case against the police. Also discusses the second UFW grape boycott and nonviolent methods referencing Cesar Chavez’s 36-day hunger strike. Unions of agricultural workers outside of the US like the Jamaican Sugar Cane Workers are also discussed.
![Cesar Chavez at Seiu Hall (1988) "Grapes of Wrath"](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 1/1/1988Call Number: CV 281Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
Carol Ruth Silver a civil rights veteran and member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors speaks at a national gathering of Labor Councils. Cesar Chavez speaks detailing the “Grapes of Wrath” grape boycott that the United Farm Workers are organizing demanding that agricultural growers stop using 5 pesticides, and also demanding free elections - free of intervention and harassment. An initial pesticide ban sponsored by the growers in 1975, was reversed when Gov. George Deukmejian stopped enforcing it and opposed the expense of placing signs in the fields warning workers of active pesticide use.
![United Farm Workers at UC Berkeley](images/fileicons/nodigital.png)
Date: 9/2/1988Call Number: CV 284Format: Cass A & BProducers: Chuy VarelaCollection: Chuy Varela Collection
UFW rally held at UC Berkeley to boycott grapes. Keynote speakers include Ron Dellums and Martin Sheen. A march from the campus goes to a Safeway store to protest their selling of grapes.
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