Farm Workers Movement Vocab

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Below the usual or required standard

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substandard

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Make arrangements for an event or activity

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organize

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Peaceful means to achieve political or social change

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nonviolence

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An organized group of workers in a trade or profession to protect their rights.

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labor union

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Serving as a symbol

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Symbolic

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abstain from all or some food/drink

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fast

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Withdraw from relations as punishment or protest

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boycott

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Movement to organize Mexican American farm workers, started in California's San Joaquin Valley in 1962.

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La Causa

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Farm workers union that became UFW

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National Farm Workers Association

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Chicano theatre company in California, founded in 1965 as part of the United Farm Workers and Chicano Movement.

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Teatro Campesino