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"Across the San Joaquin valley, across California,  across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields...there you will see our flags, with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain."</center>
<center>"Across the San Joaquin valley, across California,  across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields...there you will see our flags, with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain." [http://ufw.org]</center>






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=='''Before the UFW'''==


In the twentieth century, large growers have dominated the agricultural industry in many parts of the United States. They own thousands of acres of land and rely upon large numbers of seasonal laborers to plant, tend and harvest their crops. Most farm workers have been immigrants from such places as China, Japan, India, the Philippines and Mexico. Since World War II, the majority of seasonal farm workers in America have been Mexican and Mexican American.
===<center><u>Prayer of the Farm Workers' Struggle [http://www.colapublib.org/chavez/prayer.htm]</u></center>===
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<center>César E. Chávez, UFW Founder (1927-1993)</center>


Many attempts have been made to organize farm laborers in the United States.  Early in this century, the Industrial Workers of the World organized hundreds of workers in the fields of California, Arizona and the Great Plains. In 1934, during the Great Depression, the Southern Tenants Farmers' Union was formed.  Over the years, land owners defeated most organizing attempts by importing other immigrant workers, firing union sympathizers and engaging in vigilantism.  By 1960, only a few small farm worker unions were active.


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=='''About UFW'''==
'''So I will know my people's plight.'''  


The United Farmworkers Union (UFW) has a special place in the history of farm labor organizing.  It is the only successful union ever established to defend the rights of those who grow and harvest the crops.
'''Free me to pray for others;'''


The dominant force behind attempts to unionize much of the agricultural labor force concentrated in California and spinning off of smaller-scale efforts in Arizona, Texas, Florida, Washington, Ohio, and Michigan has been the United Farm Workers Union (UFW), headed since its inception in 1962 by Cesar Chavez until his death in April 1993.  Though its strength has diminished sinec the early 1980s, the UFW continues to be the largest agrictultural labor union in California.
'''For you are present in every person.'''


===Vision===
'''Help me take responsibility for my own life;'''


To provide farm workers and other working people with the inspiration and tools to share in society's bounty.
'''So that I can be free at last.'''


'''Grant me courage to serve others;'''


Core Values:
'''For in service there is true life.'''
*Integrity
*Si Se Puede Attitude
*Innovation
*Non-Violence
*Empowerment


'''Give me honesty and patience;'''


== Stuff ==
'''So that the Spirit will be alive among us.'''


'''Let the Spirit flourish and grow;'''


[[United Farm Workers|Bibliography]]
'''So that we will never tire of the struggle.'''


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'''Let us remember those who have died for justice;'''
 
'''For they have given us life.'''
 
'''Help us love even those who hate us;'''
 
'''So we can change the world'''
 
'''Amen'''</center>
 
 
==UFW Site Contents==
 
The circumstances of farmers and farm workers are absent from the consciousness of most Americans.  Yet, there is a rich tradition of efforts by both groups to act collectively to improve their common conditions.  It seems that social movements with predominantly urban constituencies have received the most attention by scholars as well as the general public.  Agrarian movements have, at times, embodied the progressive ideals that are at the heart of the American identity.  In their best moments, agrarian movements have sought to further the empowerment and self-determination of their constituencies, to transform social and institutional arrangements into more egalitarian ones, to challenge the dominance of powerful organizations that lack accountablity to those whose lives they affect, and to create institutional avenues that facilitate greater participation by ordinary people.  There is a historical and intellectual need to study the legacy of agrarian movements if only because, as Wendell Berry stated, "Eating is an agricultural act" (Mooney xi).
 
 
'''[[Before the UFW]]'''
 
'''[[About the UFW]]'''
 
'''[[UFW Today]]'''
 
'''[[Workers' Voices]]'''
 
 
 
 
 
 
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"Across the San Joaquin valley, across California, across the entire nation, wherever there are injustices against men and women and children who work in the fields...there you will see our flags, with the black eagle with the white and red background, flying. Our movement is spreading like flames across a dry plain." [1]


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Prayer of the Farm Workers' Struggle [2]

by
César E. Chávez, UFW Founder (1927-1993)


Show me the suffering of the most miserable;

So I will know my people's plight.

Free me to pray for others;

For you are present in every person.

Help me take responsibility for my own life;

So that I can be free at last.

Grant me courage to serve others;

For in service there is true life.

Give me honesty and patience;

So that the Spirit will be alive among us.

Let the Spirit flourish and grow;

So that we will never tire of the struggle.

Let us remember those who have died for justice;

For they have given us life.

Help us love even those who hate us;

So we can change the world

Amen


UFW Site Contents

The circumstances of farmers and farm workers are absent from the consciousness of most Americans. Yet, there is a rich tradition of efforts by both groups to act collectively to improve their common conditions. It seems that social movements with predominantly urban constituencies have received the most attention by scholars as well as the general public. Agrarian movements have, at times, embodied the progressive ideals that are at the heart of the American identity. In their best moments, agrarian movements have sought to further the empowerment and self-determination of their constituencies, to transform social and institutional arrangements into more egalitarian ones, to challenge the dominance of powerful organizations that lack accountablity to those whose lives they affect, and to create institutional avenues that facilitate greater participation by ordinary people. There is a historical and intellectual need to study the legacy of agrarian movements if only because, as Wendell Berry stated, "Eating is an agricultural act" (Mooney xi).


Before the UFW

About the UFW

UFW Today

Workers' Voices




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