WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16.
PROGRAM # 7610 12:00 PM PT
Huelga! Fifty Years.
On Mexican Independence Day, fifty years ago, hundreds of mostly Mexican American farm workers voted in Delano to join the strike launched by Filipino grape workers the week before. The great grape strike lasted more than five years, setting in motion a number of historic changes in the nation. Leading figures of the farm worker movement of the 1960s join this program to remember the epic moment.
Guests: Luis Valdez, Playwright, Filmmaker, Co-Founder of El Teatro Campesino, San Juan Bautista, CA; Eliseo Medina, Former Board Member of the United Farm Workers, Former Secretary-Treasurer of the Service Employees International Union, Participant in the 1965 Delano Strike, Washington, DC.
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