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LA Times: Looking back 50 years after Delano farm workers' grape strike
Polly Cardona Pasillas, 88, a striker from 1965 to 1970, wears the color of the United Farm Workers at the 50th anniversary of the grape strike in Delano. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)
http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-0927-delano-strike-20150927-story.html
Danny Flores carried his two young sons to the car at 5 a.m. and drove from Long Beach to Delano.
Maybe the brothers would be too young to understand the speeches at the 50th anniversary of the Delano grape strike, but when Flores, 53, was a 12-year-old carrying a United Farm Workers flag during later protests, he didn't understand the speeches.
"I just knew that my older brothers and sisters followed the crops and lived in our car and sometimes they got really sick and they didn't have medicine," he said.
"I was skinny and I'd hold that sign all day Saturdays and the wind would blow and my hands would hurt so bad. But I wouldn't let go.
FULL story at link.
I was handed this flyer outside a Safeway store. It really had an effect on me.
https://libraries.ucsd.edu/farmworkermovement/ufwarchives/DebbieMillerArchive/UFW%20Church%20Boycott%20Support/Flyer%207.pdf