Jessie Lopez de la Cruz stressed in her emotional speech that thousands of our California's fruit and vegetables farms workers find themselves subjected to long hours of backbreaking work for little pay and few benefits.
Jessie Lopez de la Cruz:"Whenever I went to speak, I told them about… how we had no benefits, no minimum wage, nothing out in the fields- no restrooms, nothing. I'd ask people how they felt about these many years they had been working out in the fields… they would say, "I was working for so-and-so, and when I complained about something that happened there, I was fired." I said, "Well! Do you think we should be putting up with this in this modern age? We can stand up! We can talk back! This country is very rich, and we want a share of the money those growers make off our sweat and our work by exploiting us and our children!"
Cesar Chavez believes that the only way to improve conditions for our farm workers is to unionize them, so they could bargain as a group for improving conditions and better treatment. Chavez and the organizers insist that California's large fruit and vegetable companies accept their union as the bargaining agent for the farm workers. However, the California's grape growers refusing to recognize the union, so Chavez launched a nationwide boycott of the companies' grapes.
Chavez believes in nonviolence to achieve our goals as a movement.
The union sending farm workers across North America to convince supermarkets and shoppers not to buy California grapes, and we should help them too.
You can help and improve our movement to better future in many ways.
We want people to be proud of our culture, and you can help us as the California farm workers do when they inspire other Latino "brown power" movement.
We are Spanish speaking Americans, and we should get our rights as everyone.
We are as the young generation call us the Chicanos which is a shortening of "Mexicanos" and it’s a pride in our ethnic heritage.
The Brown Berets organizing school walkouts in East Los Angeles high schools, you should go there and help because our children need smaller classes, better education for better future!
You also can join and contribute for our organizations- to help our family, friends and culture.
Jessie Lopez de la Cruz stressed in her emotional speech that thousands of our California's fruit and vegetables farms workers find themselves subjected to long hours of backbreaking work for little pay and few benefits.
Jessie Lopez de la Cruz: "Whenever I went to speak, I told them about… how we had no benefits, no minimum wage, nothing out in the fields- no restrooms, nothing. I'd ask people how they felt about these many years they had been working out in the fields… they would say, "I was working for so-and-so, and when I complained about something that happened there, I was fired." I said, "Well! Do you think we should be putting up with this in this modern age? We can stand up! We can talk back! This country is very rich, and we want a share of the money those growers make off our sweat and our work by exploiting us and our children!"
Cesar Chavez believes that the only way to improve conditions for our farm workers is to unionize them, so they could bargain as a group for improving conditions and better treatment.
Chavez and the organizers insist that California's large fruit and vegetable companies accept their union as the bargaining agent for the farm workers. However, the California's grape growers refusing to recognize the union, so Chavez launched a nationwide boycott of the companies' grapes.
Chavez believes in nonviolence to achieve our goals as a movement.
The union sending farm workers across North America to convince supermarkets and shoppers not to buy California grapes, and we should help them too.
You can help and improve our movement to better future in many ways.
We want people to be proud of our culture, and you can help us as the California farm workers do when they inspire other Latino "brown power" movement.
We are Spanish speaking Americans, and we should get our rights as everyone.
We are as the young generation call us the Chicanos which is a shortening of "Mexicanos" and it’s a pride in our ethnic heritage.
The Brown Berets organizing school walkouts in East Los Angeles high schools, you should go there and help because our children need smaller classes, better education for better future!
You also can join and contribute for our organizations- to help our family, friends and culture.