Born in 1927, Chavez grew up in Yuma, Arizona before moving to California during the Great Depression to become produce pickers. Once he saw the condition of the farm workers, he decided to organize and protest the low wages and long-working hours they were subjected to....
What group of reformers did Nat Turner's Rebellion effect? Which groups participated in the Everett Massacre? What did the KKK do during the Civil Rights movement? What groups supported the Anti-Slavery Society? What group did Cesar Chavez organize?
The difference between people who attend houses of worship with a social-justice focus and people who did not attend religious services at all is even more striking. White Americans who heard such messages at religious services were almost four times more likely to protest than white A...
, the founder of Earth Uprising. “When I go out and protest, I feel like I have a say in what’s going to happen to the earth,” Villasenor told The New Yorker. And as it turns out, activism is in his blood, for his great grand-uncle was labor rights organizer Cesar Chavez....
I asked SouthCoast moms to be honest about what they really wanted on their special day, and they did not disappoint.
Anyway, here's a Facebook post I did this morning about this article: He didn't die alone: Boy carries neglected dog for half mile, stays by his side which appeared in something called the Examiner based in Denver:Animals have souls. The animals in my home. The one in this story. ...
s events and their families and lives will never be the same. That’s not what they signed up for, they are there to protect our children, to teach them and to love them but they did not sign up to put their life before your child’s life. However ask anyone of them and they ...
Privacy and individual rights are more important to this country than foreign policy, which will be run by the same lame bureaucrats that have always run it. We need a president who'll champion civil liberties and not do something stupid like Clinton did when he signed a law [the CDA] he...
Now, what did this "terrible crime" really consist of? Simply in this: William Buwalda was one of fifteen hundred people who attended a public meeting in San Francisco; and, oh, horrors, he shook hands with the speaker, Emma Goldman. A terrible crime, indeed, which the General calls "a...
Claude McKay (1889-1948) was a key writer in the Harlem Renaissance, a black man from Jamaica whose works helped define a generation of protest and skepticism about the state of race relations in America, as well as religion, belief, and socialism. A highly political figure, he was ...