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Title: Sal Si Puedes (Escape If You Can): Cesar Chavez and the New American Revolution by Peter Matthiessen, Ilan Stavans ISBN: 0-520-22584-8 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 06 November, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Sal Si Puedes means Escape If You Can
Comment: Am forever indebted to my mentor Bea Brickey for getting me involved with the United Farm Worker union locally, and for instilling in me the importance of getting involved and living by Christ's motto that what you do to the least of them you do to Christ.
The book begins with a reminder form Cesar Chavez himself, who said in 1992 two years before his death that "The rich have money, the poor have time". The reader is reminded that patience was his tool of success.
The book is just shy of 400 pages and is a humbling as well as an energizing read. The title Sal Si Puedes is from the San Jose barrio where Chavez' farm workers union work was birthed. The book was begun with a three year stint the author had in the late 70's with Chavez with much appreciated postscript that brings the reader up to date with the events that incurred since the 60's and 70's.
Bea would spend hours passing on the wisdom that Chavez and the other UFW activists had taught her. How she and her husband were often taunted by San Joaquin farmers and called commies and pinkos and how Chavez and the other UFW workers who simply wanted decent working conditions and a living wage were taunted like this as well. How migrant workers were/are exposed to high pesticide levels and that in one breath the farmers denounce the "slave" labour workers for wanting decent housing and wages, while bemoaning the fact that they can't find American who will do the damn stoop labour for slave wages.
This is a book I am passing on to a lot of people, since I believe it is so important that we as citizens, stand up for what is right and that sometimes people have to have their comfort levels challenged.
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Title: The Fight in the Fields: Cesar Chavez and the Farmworkers Movement by Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, Diana Hembree ISBN: 0156005980 Publisher: Harvest Books Pub. Date: April, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Words of Cesar Chavez by Cesar Chavez, Richard J. Jensen, John C. Hammerback ISBN: 1585441708 Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Remembering Cesar: The Legacy of Cesar Chavez by Ann McGregor, Cindy Wathen, George Elfie Ballis, George Ballis ISBN: 1884956114 Publisher: Quill Driver Books Pub. Date: November, 2000 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez by Frederick John Dalton ISBN: 1570754586 Publisher: Orbis Books Pub. Date: February, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Free to Die for Their Country: The Story of the Japanese American Draft Resisters in World War II by Eric L. Muller, Daniel Inouye ISBN: 0226548236 Publisher: University of Chicago Press (Trd) Pub. Date: May, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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