What Chavez did to young women has a lot to do with the power of men, and the system of male supremacy embedded in our labor movement and society. We have to confront this directly, and not assume that being able to vote for leaders will care of it.
Chavez was the public figure, but Huerta and farmworkers across America, including in Illinois, carried the farm labor movement. Metro Chicago has more agricultural workers than other parts of Illinois — they tend nurseries and landscape or mow lawns
A lot of mobilizing is tactics in search of a strategy. There is no strategic context to it because there is no organizational venue in which that strategy is being developed.
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The workers laboring outside in this extraordinary heat are on the front lines of the climate crisis.
Commercial growers celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision in Cedar Point Nursery v Hassid, but farmworker unions say this will make it harder for them to access workers and advocate for their rights.
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