Elliott Gabriel: Re: Cesar Chavez. When the workers, campesinos, - TopicsExpress



          

Elliott Gabriel: Re: Cesar Chavez. When the workers, campesinos, and youth speak about him they’re expressing a continued aspiration for rights, protections, and empowerment, i.e. mass struggle against oppression. When community misleaders – career politicians, union bureaucrats, non-profit phonies & wannabes – speak about him they want us to think the victories have already been won, we should be passive and calm, we should content ourselves worshiping the monument theyve propped up of the historic farmworkers Moses who parted the seas of oppression (turning the other cheek the whole time, of course). The historical truth, of course, is more complex...
Posted on: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 19:22:09 +0000

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