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spazzmann

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Sat Aug 24, 2013, 11:44 AM Aug 2013

Today in Peace and Justice history on August 24, 1970


United Farm Workers Organizing Committee (UFWOC) leader Cesar Chavez called for a consumer boycott of lettuce to support the strike against lettuce growers who would not negotiate contracts with the farm workers for decent wages and working conditions. http://bit.ly/19RcJNe

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