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United Farm Workers

Si Se Puede!!

About Me


Welcome to the Cesar Chavez' United Farm Worker's (UFW) Myspace homepage.

Our mission is to provide farm workers and other working people with the inspiration and tools to share in society's bounty.

To check out the latest that is occuring with the UFW please visit our web page at: http://www.ufw.org

You can help farmworkers by visiting our "Take Action" page and joining in an e-mail action alert!

Check out some of our latest campaigns:

    Sign the petition for a National Cesar Chavez Holiday Immigration Reform Register to Vote Check out our "Youth Activism" page Send a FREE UFW e-card .

Sign up for the UFW E-mail list & help "La Causa"!

Take action at www.ufw.org/chavezholiday

My Interests

Coachella Valley Farm Worker Housing: July 2007
Photos From 3/31/07 Cesar Chavez Walk



Farm Worker Housing

Immigration Reform Marches

Cesar Chavez

Dolores Huerta

Arturo Rodriguez

I'd like to meet:

10th Annual Cesar Chavez Day Walk & Festival
Saturday, March 29th, 2008 - 10am

Historic Olvera Street
(near Downtown Los Angeles)
125 Paseo de la Plaza
Los Angeles, CA 90012

UFW Supports the Writers Guild of America (WGA) Strike! ..

3/31/07: More than 7,000 march to Honor Cesar Chavez at Los Angeles Chavez Walk

Taboo from Black Eyed Peas at Chavez Walk
Tony Plana from ABC's Ugly Betty at Chavez Walk

UFW President Arturo Rodriguez speaks at Chavez Walk


Cesar Chavez, Embrace the Legacy!
( 5 min. video about Cesar Chavez and the Los Angeles Cesar Chavez Walk)
Learn about the legacy of Cesar Chavez from Martin Sheen, Edward James Olmos, Edward James Olmos and others and get involved in keeping Cesar's dream alive!

Music:


I made this MySpace Music Player at MyFlashFetish .com.

Movies:

Put Your Myspace Page to Work to promote a national Cesar Chavez Holiday!
Please help make a National Cesar Chavez Holiday possible. Just paste the HTML code below in the "Interests" section of your Myspace profile to insert a clickable version of one of these three National Chavez Holiday petition banners on your page.
Si Se Puede!


Take action at www.ufw.org/chavezholiday



Take action at www.ufw.org/chavezholiday



Take action at www.ufw.org/chavezholiday

Television:



Heroes:

Cesar Chavez
Dolores Huerta
Arturo Rodriguez

My Blog

Help fight Ariz. bill to ban ethnic student groups like MEChA, Black Business Students Assoc.

Help fight Ariz. bill to ban ethnic student groups like MEChA, Black Business Students Assoc. Multiculturalism is a basic American concept. We value the beliefs, traditions, customs, arts, history an...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Wed, 23 Apr 2008 03:10:00 PST

CA Leg. threatens funding for Cesar Chavez Day. Take Action

TAKE ACTION: CA Legislature threatenes to cut funding for Cesar Chavez Day of Service and Learning I have been a member of the Chavez Service Club at my school for two years and in those two years I h...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:10:00 PST

Toxic chemicals are threatening farm worker children. We need your help.

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/toxics?source=myspace Toxic chemicals are threatening farm worker children. We need your help. Farm worker children are being put at daily risk of neurological and ...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 12:28:00 PST

Check out the UFWs new Cesar Chavez internet resource at http://www.ufw.org/cesarchavez!

Check out the UFW's new Cesar Chavez internet resource at http://www.ufw.org/cesarchavez!  This simple visual site offers an array of information on Cesar Chavez, including video, audio, photos ...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 03:41:00 PST

The EPA wants your opinion on endosulfan. Tell them to ban it!

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/endosulfan?source=myspace The EPA wants your opinion on endosulfan.Tell them to ban this toxic pesticide. Please take immediate action. The Environmental Protection A...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:39:00 PST

Working Under the Gun. Its Not Just an Expression

Working Under The GunIt's Not Just an Expression Workers of Starrh and Starrh Cotton Growers--a large cotton, hay, and almond producer in Californianeed your help. They need you to e-mail Cal OSHA im...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:04:00 PST

Help farm workers win AgJOBS. Make a phone call TODAY & ask your senator to support adding AgJO

Help farm workers win AgJOBS. Make a phone call TODAY & ask your senator to support adding AgJOBS (S.340) to the farm bill. Senators are working behind the scenes now to decide if AgJOBS will be ...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Tue, 30 Oct 2007 11:26:00 PST

Stop pregnant women, farm workers & kids from being exposed to a toxic mutagenic pesticide

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/methyl_iodide_1007?source= myspace Take Action: EPA Approves Toxic Pesticide Despite Protests of 54 Scientists Do you want to help pregnant women, farm workers, and y...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Tue, 09 Oct 2007 01:42:00 PST

Culture Clash offers UFW Supporters a special discount to see Zorro in Hell!

Culture Clash offers UFW Supporters a special discount to see Zorro in Hell!"A CALL TO REVOLUTION" - Los Angeles Times"PROMISCUOUSLY EXTRAVAGANT" - The Hollywood ReporterTo recieve your disc...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 02:15:00 PST

TAKE ACTION: A farm worker town with more pollution than LA or NY?

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/smog?source=myspace A farm worker town with more pollution than LA or NY? In past emails we've shared the conditions farm workers endure during the day--heat, abuse...
Posted by United Farm Workers on Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:29:00 PST