Delano History Twitter facebook YouTube Emailshare link The fight continues! Show your support comment #SiSePuede!!! It’s up to us all to make sure it doesn’t happen. Let continue fighting for equality. Join us!! -> http://www.delanograpestrike.org/ One social change begins it cannot be reversed!!!! “All Hispanics are connected to the farm workers’ experience.” What is freedom to you…how do you fight for? “You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore!” “Farm workers are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded” – Cesar Chavez “The boycott is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change.” Comment your thoughts!! What’s your motivation for change!? The choice is whether or not we’re going to keep fighting through the unpleasantness to achieve the change we want, or to give up and run away from it. – Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano God knows that we are not beasts of burden… – Cesar Chavez, Letter from Delano Mostly Filipino grape pickers belonging to the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee led by Larry Itliong, Pete Velasco and PhilipVera Cruz begin the Delano Grape Strike in September 1965 and ask Cesar Chavez�s largely Latino union to join their picket lines. “The UFWs survival sent out a signal to all Latinos that we were fighting for our dignity, that we were challenging and overcoming injustice, that we were empowering the least educated among us, the poorest among us. �The message was clear: If it could happen in the fields, it could happen anywhere, in the cities, in the courts, in the city councils, in the state legislatures.” – Cesar Chavez “Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.” Cesar Chavez “You cannot un-educate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore.” -Cesar Chavez “We attacked that historical source of shame and infamy that our people in this country lived with. We attacked that injustice, not by complaining, not by seeking handouts, not by becoming soldiers in the War on Poverty. We organized!” – Cesar Chavez “Freedom is best experienced through participation and self-determination, and free men and women instinctively prefer democratic change to any other means.” – #CesarChavez #Motivation Stanford University Libraries: Bob Fitch Photography Archive Duke University online exhibit: Long Live the Strike: Activism for Farmworkers’ Rights Walter P. Reuther Library Newsletter Fall 1998: La Causa P 1 Historical Posters: Walter P. Reuther Library, Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University. « Previous12
