[Marxism] Fw: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] UFW response- : Puzzled by Miriam Pawel's L.A. Times series?

["John A Imani" <johnaimani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Puzzled by Miriam Pawel's L.A. Times series
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Subject: [DopeXResistance-L.A.] UFW response- : Puzzled by Miriam Pawel's L.A. 
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                  Puzzled by Miriam Pawel's L.A. Times series

                  We are grateful to the hundreds of good people who know our 
work and have contacted us expressing outrage at Miriam Pawel's recent series 
in the Los Angeles Times. For a few, the articles have raised concerns, and we 
appreciate you contacting us directly so we can answer any questions. Please 
email us at UFWofamer@xxxxxxx and we will respond.

                  Pawel's main premise--that the United Farm Workers is 
"failing to organize California farm workers"--is directly contradicted by 
reporting from no less than 22 Los Angeles Times reporters and two columnists 
between April 25, 1994 (when the current UFW organizing drive began) and Sept. 
23, 2005.  These stories chronicle substantial UFW organizing, election, strike 
and boycott activities plus new union contracts and legislative victories.

                  Either all the stories by those L.A. Times reporters are 
wrong or Pawel's stories are wrong. They both can't be right. There is a long 
list of accomplishments and facts in that L.A. Times coverage raising serious 
questions about Pawel's reporting.  Please see citations for just 48 of the 
1994-2005 news articles and columns by Times writers on UFW activities by 
subject matter with headlines, reporters' names and dates at 
http://www.ufw.org/puzzled11206.htm

                    Among other things, L.A. Times stories from 1994 to 2005 
chronicle:

                    --A string of UFW election victories and campaigns to win 
contracts, with workers at 32 companies voting for the union in secret ballot 
elections and dozens of important UFW contract successes, including the largest 
strawberry, rose, winery and mushroom firms in California and the nation.

                    --Fierce grower resistance to farm worker organizing.

                    --The UFW's major organizing campaign among Central Valley 
table grape workers last summer that produced modest pay hikes and a near win 
in the largest private-sector union election in the nation last year, at 
Giummara.

                    --New laws and regulations aiding farm workers the UFW won 
since 1999, from seat belts in farm labor vehicles and fresh protections for 
farm workers cheated by farm labor contractors to an historic binding mediation 
law and new pesticide protections for farm workers. The UFW even convinced 
Republican Gov. Schwarzenegger in 2005 to issue an emergency regulation to 
prevent further heat deaths of farm workers and all outdoor employees.

                  If Pawel was telling the full story of the UFW and the Farm 
Worker Movement, her writing would have reflected it.  You decide:

                    --Tuesday's story totaled 121 column inches.  Only 5 inches 
contained facts or perspective provided by the UFW.

                    --Monday's article was 135.5 column inches. Just 8.5 inches 
were from the Farm Worker Movement.

                    --Sunday's story was 132 column inches. Only 10 inches were 
from the Farm Worker Movement.

                  We plan to take these facts and much more to the editors of 
the L.A. Times and demand the full story of the UFW, Cesar Chavez and the Farm 
Worker Movement be told. We're never satisfied with the progress we have made. 
But we're proud of what we have accomplished and remain committed to overcoming 
the many challenges we face. We hope you will join us. Please send your letter 
to the editor of the L.A. Times if you have not already done so. (A much more 
detailed refutation is in the process of being prepared and we will share it 
with you and post it at http://www.ufw.org/puzzledLAT.htm.)   

                  If you have not yet sent you letter to the editor of the L.A. 
Times, please do so.  Sign your letter with your full name, street address and 
phone number, and send it to: letters@xxxxxxxxxxx or Letters to the Editor, 202 
West First Street, Los Angeles, CA. 90012. If you send a letter-to-the editor, 
please cc us a copy at: ufwofamer@xxxxxxxx

                   
                 


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