Does this handbill picture below bother you? It doesn't bother CONSERVATIVES!!

[Omaha Steve]

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Now you know why we celebrate Cesar Chavez today. This is my button.

(Link changed to make it easier to read) Her name was Maria, 17 and expecting when she died (they refused to take her to the hospital): http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=1532976




Continue Cesar's vision. Make a memorial gift to the UFW: https://secure.ufw.org/page/contribute/cesarsvision2014?source=web1

[Ohio Joe]

1. K&R for labor - nt

[Lady Freedom Returns]

2. K and R!

We all need to remember the fight of people like Chavez, MLK, Susan B. Anthony,Vic Basile, Mary Dyckman,and so many others that have been fighting to make the U.S.A. even better.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Kick and Rec.

[TomClash]

4. K&R!!

[Sancho]

5. Solidarity!

[Bluenorthwest]

6. No Uvas!

Grapes, my first and most painful boycott. I remember Reagan eating grapes on TV as Governor mocking the Farm Workers.
Si se puerde!

[Omaha Steve]

7. Governor Raygun got President Nixon to buy boycotted grapes for the armed forces

The rest of my Nixon eats grapes button story.

[Bluenorthwest]

9. I had forgotten that part!

I was but a lad!

[Lady Freedom Returns]

8. Another reason not to like him.

[Bluenorthwest]

10. The list is really endless.

A stain on the history of the United States and of California.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

11. I support all union actions. I don't care what the union wants or what tactics they use

Malcolm X said it best: "By any means necessary."

[seveneyes]

15. "By any means necessary."

That sometimes involved murder against those crossing picket lines. That would be very much unsupportable.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

16. Of course, leave it to someone to bring up the extremes.

Not surprised.

[seveneyes]

17. That's the problem with absolute support for many causes

A statement like ...
"I support all union actions. I don't care what the union wants or what tactics they use."

does not exclude the extremes. People die from extremes all the time. They must be included.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

19. fine, hairsplitter. . .i support all union actions short of murder and overt criminal behavior

now, if a scab accidentally falls into a union member's fist, poor guy. he should be more careful when he walks. those sidewalks are slippery.

[Omaha Steve]

20. I'm a strong union advocate

In general the XL pipeline is supported by labor for the good paying jobs it will bring. BIG Ed used to be in that camp. He is now against the pipeline. I'm against the pipeline too.

OS

[hollysmom]

12. I remember not eating grapes as a kid.

It was hard to talk about it with other kids in school they just didn't understand. Doesn't everyone talk to their children ab out politics? I remember not being allowed to watch cartoons because my parents said they wanted me to watch the McCarthy trials - I was 4. Daddy was at work and Mommy was cooking dinner, so they decided that I needed to watch this. I still don't know why my older sister was not forced to do this, she was probably out playing.

[Omaha Steve]

13. Me too

I got one of these flyers before going into Safeway.

[hollysmom]

14. Do you remember tryingto talk about it and other people not having heard about the boycott?

it was like it was a secret or something. I kind of feel like that today - people are so lost in imaginary America, they miss real America and what is happening around them. Especially when you have facts and they have FOX

[Sunlei]

18. Viva Cesar Chavez!

[Omaha Steve]

21. About Maria in the OP

Those that were responsible for her death got NO JAIL time!

[Mnemosyne]

22. I still don't buy grapes and donate monthly to UFW. nt