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La lucha sigue! ✊🏽 Today, we honor not only Cesar Chavez's legacy but also the hard work and resilience of the immigrant farmworkers who feed our nation 🧑🏽‍🌾

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It's Learn — or teach — about his work to promote civil rights. and improve working conditions for farmworkers:

https://t.co/8Bktdfhneb

Recommended for: Grades 6-10

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Learn the story of who helped organize farmworkers and consumers to fight exploitative working conditions, in our free, downloadable
https://t.co/8Bktdfhneb

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After 5 years of devastating in farmworkers have made their demands clear 🔥🍇

The community agrees overwhelmingly 🙌🏽

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"Holocaust scholar publishes novel about Nazi hunters. A retired protest singer who rubbed elbows with Joan Baez and campaigned for farmworkers’ rights with Cesar Chavez has published her first historical fiction novel." — on Amber Rose

➡️ https://t.co/y5L6c8DQIv

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Susan Seddon Boulet. Visionary painter. Her childhood was spent on a citrus & cattle ranch. She loved the connection to nature there and enjoyed a rich fantasy life fed by folk tales told her by her father and by the farmworkers.

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1983, Canadian Farmworkers Union founding president Raj Chouhan, Founder of the United Farm Workers of America Cesar Chavez & 350 workers marched in to demand health & safety coverage.

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Susan Seddon Boulet
1941-1997
Brazilian born
American painter

Grew up on a farm
and enjoyed the
tales of nature told
to her by her father
and farmworkers

Encouraged by her
father, began to draw...

Tutt'Art

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'Samson of a Man.' Harry Becker's great passion was to paint the life of rural Suffolk. In particular he captured farmworkers at their daily tasks ploughing, ditching, hoeing and leading horses in the first decades of the 20th century.

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At least 25% of farmworkers in the US are immigrants. Without them, we would not have food security - a critical component to our recovery from this pandemic.

Protect. Immigrants. Now.


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Honoring Dolores Huerta:
✔️labor leader, advocated for farmworkers, immigrants and women ✔️introduced new models of womanhood as energetic picket captain, persuasive lobbyist and unyielding negotiator

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Robert Russell MacNee (1866-1952) - Scottish Oil, Tattie Gatherers, Invercannie // £1,009.55

A very fine signed oil painting by listed Scottish artist Robert Russell Macnee (1866-1952). Depicts farmworkers gathering potatoes in a field.

https://t.co/DZHfNcdL08

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🎂 Today marks the 89th birthday and 1st official in California and Washington state of the labor leader and civil rights activist ✊ The trailblazer worked relentlessly to ensure civil rights and justice for farmworkers, immigrants, and women.

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