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  • The agreement marks a milestone in a decade-long campaign by a Florida-based farm-workers group called the Coalition of Immokalee Workers to increase pay and improve working conditions in agricultural fields.

    Business Watch 2010

  • We had met three years earlier during the Cesar Chavez March in L.A., representing the farm-workers in 2007.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • We don't use this curriculum because it got Barack Obama elected president, but because some of the most successful movements in our history -- of farm-workers, of civil rights activists -- have been rooted in this idea of people learning their story of self.

    Sarah van Gelder: Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement Is Changing the Game Sarah van Gelder 2011

  • We don't use this curriculum because it got Barack Obama elected president, but because some of the most successful movements in our history -- of farm-workers, of civil rights activists -- have been rooted in this idea of people learning their story of self.

    Sarah van Gelder: Power Shift: How the Youth Climate Movement Is Changing the Game Sarah van Gelder 2011

  • We had met three years earlier during the Cesar Chavez March in L.A., representing the farm-workers in 2007.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • The days of only smiling farm-workers looking for work has long passed since the cartels have gained power.

    Arizona senators call for stronger security on border with Mexico 2010

  • We had met three years earlier during the Cesar Chavez March in L.A., representing the farm-workers in 2007.

    Fallin’ Up Steve Dennis 2011

  • Grijalva's start in politics came when he volunteered with the farm-workers union in the early '70s, where he met legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, who is often described, in a fairly sexist way, as the female Cesar Chavez.

    Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Grijalva's start in politics came when he volunteered with the farm-workers union in the early '70s, where he met legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, who is often described, in a fairly sexist way, as the female Cesar Chavez.

    Power Struggle: Inside The Battle For The Soul Of The Democratic Party (Print Version) The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Migrant farm-workers started coming to Woodburn about 50 years ago to work the harvest.

    Winning Team Breaks Losing Streak 2010

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