![]() ![]() This picture shows the Filipino farm workers picketing the Safeway during the Grape strikes during the 70’s. Meanwhile back in Delano, Cesar Chavez and the Farm Workers Movement were faced with yet with another obstacle, the Teamsters.įilipino Farm workers picketing at a Safeway Look at these goons attacking peaceful picket lines. Medina, a son of a farm worker, would take up the challenge that Cesar gave him to find and organize supporters to boycott and picket grocery stores such as Safeway and Jewels supermarkets that were selling DiGiorgio grape produces. Jerry Cohen, house counsel for the UFW, came down to LA in 1974 with photos of Teamster goons who had violently attacked pickets in Coachella and other places to disrupt picketing. After a while, the movement started traveling outside of the San Joaquin Valley and onto the streets of Chicago Illinois and New York City by a young enthusiastic twenty years old by the name of Eliseo Medina. The words “Huelga”, “Viva la Causa” and “Si Se Puede” were coined by the farm workers in the strikes and boycotts throughout California. Support began to come from church organizations, Politicians, and other everyday citizens that wanted join the cause to stop the brutality of the farm workers. Although strikes on the growers were unwelcomed and many of the strikers were beaten and placed in jail, Cesar continued fighting and the movement began to grow. With little money and few supporters at the start of the strikes, Cesar Chavez went out into the grape vineyards and began talking and recruiting farm workers to join him in his causa, the cause. He was accompanied by such people as Dolores Huerta co-founder of the UFW, Jessica Govea UFW legal Secretary, Eliseo Medina Boycott organizer and Director of Operations, Jerry Cohen UFW Attorney, and Chris Hartmire UFW California Migrant Ministry. He would take on this endeavor with the help of others that wanted to take up the fight with him. There in 1962, Cesar Chavez would single-handedly challenge California’s most powerful industry, the grape vineyard farm growers (The Union of their Dreams). ![]() ![]() The Farm Workers Movement began in the small quite town of Delano California out in the vast grape vine fields in the San Joaquin Valley.
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