United Farm Workers
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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: 670 __ |a Oxford bibliographies, United Farm Workers Union, April 4, 2016 |b (United Farm Workers (UFW) formed in 1965 under the leadership of Cesar Chavez; In 1962, two organizations, the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), composed mainly of Filipinos, and the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), composed mainly of Mexicans, formed in separate locations in rural California; In 1965, the two organizations merged to create the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee; When the organization became affiliated with the AFL-CIO in 1972, the national executive board changed their name to the United Farm Workers of America (UFWA); popular name in press and with the public remains "UFW")
670 __ |a United Farm Workers website, April 6, 2016 |b UFW chronology page (September 1965, the mostly Filipino American members AFL-CIO-affiliated Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC), walk out on strike against Delano-area grape growers on Sept. 8, and ask Cesar Chavez’s largely Latino (National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) to join the walkouts; 1966, NFWA and AWOC merge to form the United Farm Workers and the union affiliates with the AFL-CIO, the national labor federation; 1972, UFW is chartered as an independent affiliate by the AFL-CIO; it becomes the United Farm Workers of America; still referred to as UFW) UFW history page (On August 22, 1966, the two organizations, NFWA and AWOC, merged to became the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, AFL-CIO (UFWOC); the new union received organizing funds from the AFL-CIO, as well as strike support from other unions) |u http://www.ufw.org/
Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
El Obrero Rebelde (vol. 2, no. 2), 1979-05
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"¿No Importa la Salud de los Campesinos?"; "Como Sacaron al Miedo de Aacozari"; "Luchamos Para Rescatar Neustro Hospital"; "En la lechuga: 'No tenemos nada que perder'"; "Niegan Servicio Médico a Indocumentados Guatamala: "El Pueblo Quiere Organización"; "¿Que pasa en el Hospital si uno no Habla Ingles?"; "Proclama del Frente Democrático"; "Historia de la Clase Obrera Norte-Americana: Gente Obrera De California: Los Mexicanos"; "Para Clase Obrera, No Hay Frontera"Issue also...
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Issued: 1979-05
Prensa Popular (vol. 1, no. 2), 1973-11-26
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"Chicanos and Arabs... Victims of Aggression"; "Pete Wilson Blind To Deportations, Seeks Political Power Instead" [police Chief Ray Hoobler and mass deportations; profile of Mayor Pete Wilson's rise to power in San Diego and actions against Chicano community]; "UC-MECHA Conference" [discord at conference at UC-Riverside for state-wide U.C. Mechas, included in article are the majority position and minority position from conference regarding the ideology of U.C. Mecha, and a critique by the...
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Publication: 1973-11-26
Prensa Popular (vol. 1, no. 4), 1974-03-05
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"Chicano Community Fights Deportations" [Interview with Herman Baca, Chicano activist, includes photographs]; "Boycott Demonstrators Picket Gallo H.Q." [mass picket at Gallo Headquarters in Los Angeles; contains photographs]; "Black Nationalism: 'Counter-Revolutionary and Proud'"; "Hero Worship: A Form of Oppression"; "Class Struggle Main Theme of Chicano Conference" [16th Annual High School Chicano Conference, San Diego State University. Keynote speaker was Bert Corona]; "Middle East Issue...
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Publication: 1974-03-05
Prensa Popular (vol. 1, no. 9), 1974-08
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"Working conditions in S.D. flower field As related by a worker / Condiciones de trabajo en los campos de flores Relatado por un trabajadar"; "Lawton and Gardner Trials" [Zurebu Gardner and Gary Lawton, charged in the killings of Riverside, California, police officers]; "In Eden Gardens: Community Responds To Police Threat" [police harassment of residents of Eden Gardens, Solana Beach]; "Capitalism and the Worker / Capitalismo y el Obrero"; "Alaskan Native Workers Protest" [against...
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Publication: 1974-08
San Diego Door to Liberation (vol. 1, no. 28), 1969-06-05
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"Escaped Marine Desperados Terrorize San Diego" [interview with Pvt. Timothy Eckman, Pvt. James Sanford, and Pvt. Larry Deardorff, escapees from the Maine Corps Recruit Depot Brig]; "Bag of beads" [Subersive Progress Report, Encounter, The Generation Chasm]; "Letters to Editor"; "Love Is A Four Letter Word: Shit"; "Large Class Size Spoils School Program" [Mangelson School]; "New Left, Old Left, What's Left?"; "Hippocrates" [effects of tear gas]; "Co-ops are coming" [grocery co-op in...
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1969-06-05
The Door (Vol. 3, No. 1), 1971-06-09
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[Comics: V-8 Hijinks, Fourth Estate Funnies, Weird Romances, Studly, Little Ingrid]; "Reader's Soapbox: Hippies & Colour"; [Letters to the Editor]; "The Black and White Experience"; "Short Notes: PRG [Provisionary Revolutionary Government of South Vietnam] & FBI; Stawberry UFWOC [United Farm Worker Organizing Committee]; Military; Bobby Seale & Ericka Huggins; Witches [Anne Steward, teacher retiring after being accused of being a witch]; "Harpoon Man" [Hawaii Harpoon undergound...
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Publication: 1971-06-09
The Door (Vol. 3, No. 15), 1971-12-23
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"Newton Freed" [Huey P. Newton, founder of the Black Panther Party]; "Coalition Prepares for Republican Convention" [presidential convention, originally slated to be held in San Diego]; "Letters to the Editor"; "Nader Raider Visits San Diego" [Dr. Joseph Highland pushing for creation of a California PIRG, Public Interest Research Group]; "Veterans Organize Union" [San Diego Veterans' Union]; "French Women March" [organizers Women's Liberation Movement and the Movement for the Freedom of...
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Publication: 1971-12-23
The Door (Vol. 5, No. 2), 1973-07-03
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"Are Drug Addicts Financing Land Development in San Diego?" [part one of a two-part series; relationship between land development and oraganized crime; Irvin Kahn; Morris Shenker; ]; "Shorts"; "police spy snagged" [alias David Ernest Bainum, tried to inflitrate local chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (VVAW); "hard times..." [local media blackout re: CREEP spy Donald Segretti; includes reprinted article from New York Times, "F.B.I Informer Is Linked to Right-Wing Violence"; Howard...
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Publication: 1973-07-03
Voz Fronteriza (vol. 3, no. 2), 1977-11
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"20,000 Demonstrate Across the Country / El Pueblo se Levanta Contra Bakke" [Supreme Court decision on Bakke]; "San Ysidro: INS - KKK Collusion 2,000 Protest"; "20 de Noviembre: Dia de Resistencia, Dia de Unidad / November 20th: Day of Resistance, Day of Unity" [1910 Mexican Revolution]; "We Salute" [Bakke decision]; "Despite Disruption: National Conference Demands Unconditional Amnesty [resistance to President Carter's amnesty; National Chicano/Latino Conference on Immigration and Public...
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Publication: 1977-11