Tag Archives: UFW
The Emergency Committee to Aid Farm Workers
The Emergency Committee to Aid Farm Workers lobbied Congress to end the Bracero Program in the early 1960s. Its leaders went on to promote the United Farm Workers’ grape boycott. Continue reading
Whitman’s Nannygate vs. Brown’s Record
Immigration and candidates’ attitudes toward Latinos became a central issue in the California governor’s race after Republican Meg Whitman was discovered to have hired an undocumented housekeeper after promising to get tough on employers who hire the undocumented. A look at the historical relationship between Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman and the Latino community. Continue reading
Ernesto Galarza as Farm Worker Organizer
Mean Things Happening in This Land sheds important light on Ernesto Galarza, farm labor organizing, and the tension between Socialists and Communists with the CIO’s United Cannery, Agricultural, and Packing Allied Workers of America (UCAPAWA), of which Southern Tenant Farmers Union was briefly part. Continue reading
