Viva La Causa: The Story of César Chávez and a Great Movement for Social Justice
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Audio/Visual
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DVD: Nonfiction
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Publication Year
2008
Publisher
Learning for Justice, United States
Duration
39 minutes
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On a warm evening in 1965, hundreds of Mexican farmworkers packed into a church hall in the small town of Delano, California. A momentous decision lay before them: Should they join a strike against grape growers started 11 days prior by their Filipino counterparts? Could a strike improve their appalling working conditions and help them earn enough to feed their families?
The struggle of the farmworkers was about more than wages. It was about respect, justice and equality.
Viva La Causa tells the story of how the powerless stood up to the powerful and gained their victory, not by violence or weapons, but by their strong will. Led César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, a coalition of diverse people stood together for justice, proving that the mightiest walls of oppression can be toppled when people are united and their cause is just.
The struggle of the farmworkers was about more than wages. It was about respect, justice and equality.
Viva La Causa tells the story of how the powerless stood up to the powerful and gained their victory, not by violence or weapons, but by their strong will. Led César Chávez and Dolores Huerta, a coalition of diverse people stood together for justice, proving that the mightiest walls of oppression can be toppled when people are united and their cause is just.
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