Chicano! The Struggle in the Fields

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5 жыл бұрын

Documentary of the Chicano civil rights movement in the US
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@SAMANTHALOPEZ-of7sq 3 жыл бұрын

In 2021 most of the Grape companies that I have called to ask basic questions like what is the age range of your workers or what benefits are they being provided with? Refuse to answer these questions, which is weird since it is just a basic question. One company did answer my questions which amazed me. the company gives shade, insurance, provide restrooms and water for their field workers. Age range is 17+ at a $14 start up. UFW Association has made an incredible impact!

@mariozermeno2649 Жыл бұрын

i myself grew up working in the fields along with my father , i have seen the worst of farmers and the best of them . I'm 60 yrs old know and I still will not touch a table grape out of respect, and to honor what my parents went thru as migrant workers . I'm very grateful to Cesar Chavez and his organizers who fought endlessly for the farm workers rights and QUE VIVA LA HUELGA ! QUE VIVA CESAR CHAVES!!

@_vionat 2 жыл бұрын

thank you for sharing!!!

@stevencampbell365 Ай бұрын

Viva la raza💪💪🙏

@acortez1004 Жыл бұрын

We worked in the fields since we were little kids till we went to college....we even hoed sugar beets in Ohio with the small hoes. You couldn’t even stand up after working all day bent. Picked Cotten in west Texas with rattlesnakes before the machines took over. Worst was picking pickles in Wisconsin. Lived in shackles so full of holes that the rain and cold air blew in .....labor camp in weslaco Texas so full of diseases that many little babies were dying. My little sister asked me once if white people used the toilet and I told her of course they are human beings.......she so so why don’t their houses have outhouses? We were not immigrants....we are Mexican Americans.

@GR8APE69 10 ай бұрын

Wow. Your experience is incredibly powerful to read. It's people like you whom us younger workers now stand on the shoulders of. I hope you're well.

@elcalifornioelcalimex8547 4 жыл бұрын

Good job Cesar and Kennedy you guys did it thanks 🙏 to god .

@ALG_Entertainment 6 ай бұрын

🗣️Si Se Puede

@kialbonetti1997 2 жыл бұрын

It was a “Farmworker movement” not a Chicano movement. Chicanos participated.

@uchihadabba699 Жыл бұрын

True that

@agustingarcia3361 Жыл бұрын

Such an easy assignment 🤓

@MReynaArte 2 жыл бұрын

most field workers are imigrants ...not to many chicanos working , harvesting the fields...its true..I worked in the tomato fields and sorting oranges , voltiando cantalop melons when I was 14...just saying

@GR8APE69 10 ай бұрын

Cesar Chavez was Chicano

@GR8APE69 10 ай бұрын

And many of the people there were Chicano. All Chicano is is someone of Mexican descent who was born in America. So even if their parents were immigrants, but they were born here in America and grew up to work in those fields, then they would be Chicanos in those fields. Cesar Chaves and Dolores Huerta are BOTH Chicano. Chavez was born in Arizona, and Huerta was born in New Mexico.

@GR8APE69 10 ай бұрын

That has changed now, but this was also almost 80 years ago.

@Queefersareass Жыл бұрын

#brownpride❤

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

18:00 National Consumer Boycott. timestamp for future reference

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

3:45 farmworker conditions Pesticides, 49 yrs life expectancy 2-3yrs school

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

Kids pulled out of school=bad education

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

5:50 1964 end bracero program, no more labor from Mexico

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

This meant labor has better chance at union. Filipino coachella strike works because grapes ripe quick.

@ethererebusbw Жыл бұрын

6:30 pete velasco "the strike was one in one week because coachella is a hot land and grapes ripen in one second"

@josefonseca6144 4 ай бұрын

At that time my grandfather was in self exile in South America because he was treated like shit after WW2 even though he fought in the pacific. Yeah this country hasn’t been kind to chicanos