Extra Credit: Cesar Chavez Film Cesar Chavez was a farm worker organizer and a powerful union activist. The film showed how he did his best to exterminate the mistreatment and unfairness done to Latino farmers. The most amazing part for me was how Cesar quit his Community Service Organization job and managed to bring all the farmworkers together under one roof by first putting himself in their situation. The fact that Cesar and his wife took some days to actually be in the life of a farmer showed just how dedicated he was to creating a union. By, engaging with the farmers, interviewing them and inviting them to the church and his house for meetings, and talking to the Filipino leaders who were already on strike, Cesar was able to successfully bring together the farmworkers for a successful union.
In “The Confrontation”, despite Roberto’s humiliating statements and actions towards the workers, one brave farmer, Manuel, stands up for all the farmers with honor and pride against Roberto’s oppression and degration. For example, when Manuel is picking fruit, he falls from the dehydration because they are working in the hot sun. Roberto tells him, “Whatsamatter, cant u see straight?” This was very humiliating but Manuel was too tired to d anything about it, he couldn’t even curse. To prevent this from happening, he should’ve drunk more water before he started working, and he also could’ve worn a hat. If he
This isn’t a typical biography about a man doing his part in the world. Kidder shows how people in underdeveloped nations need all the help they can get because of how unhealthy they are through the words and deeds of Farmer. He uses his talent and interjects his opinions and ideas that can help everyone grow personally as they travel through the book. Farmer takes what he does more seriously than just any ordinary job. He made it a mission in his life to help the less fortunate in Haiti who don’t have proper medical care.
He founded with the co-founding of Dolores Huerta, the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers. Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American who became the best known Latino civil rights activist, and was strongly promoted by the American labor movement. His aggressive but nonviolent tactics made the farm workers' struggle a moral cause with nationwide support. By the late 1970s, his tactics had forced growers to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for fifty- thousand field workers in
One day while everyone in the tribe was at the market to get food and resources, a man thought that he would take extra food for his family. He was lucky that no one saw him but Divisioner is always watching. He gathered his tribe and called the thief out and made him dig a hole, right in the middle of the island. Once he had finished digging, Divisioner asked him to get in the hole, so he got
Cesar Estrada Chavez (March 31, 1927 - April 23, 1993) was a Mexican-American labor leader who used non-violent methods to fight for the rights of migrant farm workers in the southwestern USA. Migrant farm workers are people who do farm labor, moving from farm to farm and from town to town as their work is needed - it is difficult work that pays very little and can be dangerous due to the use of pesticides. Chavez founded a group that supported the rights of farm workers, acting to increase wages and improve the working conditions and safety of farm workers. He also organized strikes (when workers refuse to work until improved working conditions and salary demands are met) and nation-wide boycotts of agricultural products in order to help workers (a boycott is a protest in which the public is asked not to buy certain products). Chavez went on many hunger strikes, refusing to eat until violence against strikers ended and until legislators (law makers) voted to make laws improving the lives of farm workers.
Samuel Gompers Samuel Gompers fought for worker rights. He wanted workers to get paid fairly because they were human-beings who needed to feed a hungry family and the workers were just as important as their bosses. Samuel Gompers cared and understood the workers needed good working conditions and needed to be comfortable considering they had to be in their for 12-24 hours at a time, every single day with no breaks. Samuel Gompers didn't think it was fair for children to spend their childhood working instead of going to school or playing and enjoying life with their friends. Samuel Gompers was first elected as the President of the American Federation of Labor.
Even though Dave does earn money from plowing fields he never sees any of it because his parents demand that the money is given to them. This starts to show how Dave’s parents deprive him of love and nurturing and why he needs to break away from his current life to grow into an adult. His parents not only demand all of his wages but also not once do they comfort Dave in any way or tell him that they love him. On the contrary, there is textual detail that shows that Dave has been physically abused by his father and is afraid of it happening again. His father screams, “Yuh wan me t take a tree n beat yuh till yuh talk!” (172).
Most men do not grasp this thought until it is too late. But Okonkwo’s promise to himself to be nothing like his father has aided him to become one of the hardest workers in the tribe. His wisdom of the earth can be an analogy for his life. The wiser you are to help the seed you plant, the faster and stronger it will grow. Finally, Okonkwo expresses his wisdom through his everyday life.
The National Labor Relations Act took effect in 1936 giving most american workers the right to join unions. From 1962 to 1965 Cesar Chavez and a small group of organizers traveled up and down California’s agricultural valleys, talking to people, holding house meetings, helping with problems, and inviting farmworkers to join their new organization. They didn’t call the National Farmworkers Association a labor union, because people had such bad memories of lost strikes and unfulfilled promises. It was a slow and tedious process. A lot changed on September 8, 1965.