Re: Cooper on UFW

[Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1@xxxxxxx>]

On Jan 13, 2006, at 10:49 PM, Jim Devine wrote:

> Dissonance
> Rotting Legacy
> Time may have arrived for Cesar Chavez's UFW to step aside
> by MARC COOPER
>
> The L.A. Times has just finished running a bang-up four-part takedown
> on the United Farm Workers union that was directly inspired by -- if
> not in great part derived from -- our own reporting on the subject
> last summer ("Sour Grapes," August 12-18, 2005) as well as by a
> groundbreaking series in 2004 by the Bakersfield Californian.

This LA Times series is a must read!  I'd heard of various problems
of the UFW, but it's a lot worse than I imagined.  Part 3 at
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-
history10jan10,1,2415699.story?coll=la-center-rosebowl>
is the most depressing.  I didn't realize that Cesar Chavez's
anticommunism purged so many organizers from the UFW.

Yoshie Furuhashi
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