Cesar Chavez altyazı (531633)

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I was born in Yuma, Arizona
in a ranch owned by my family

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but we lost it in the depression.

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Like many other families, we moved
to California to work in the fields.

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But when we arrived, we found out that
there was more people than jobs.

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We went from being farm owners
to farm workers in one day.

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And at the age of 11,
I started working in the fields.

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That's where I witnessed,
for the first time,

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the injustice and the indignities
suffered by the farm workers.

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You see the problem is that in 1936
the country changed,

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because the National Labor Relations Act
went into effect.

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And it gave most workers the right
to join the union and bargain collectively.

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Except the farm workers,

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they were excluded from this protection
and I was one of them.

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I wanted to do something, so I joined
the CSO, Community Services Organization.

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And that is where I learned
how to organize people.

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We were working in the cities and I
realized that, to make a difference,

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I had to get out
and start organizing the workers.

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So, in 1962, I went back
to the fields to do just that.

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Juan de la Cruz!

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I'm a friend of your cousin, Felipe.

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Are you Juan?