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‘Sí Se Puede’ without Chavez: Central Valley Latinas reclaim a movement, continue to champion farmworkers
The recent accusations of sexual abuse committed by late United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez has forced a painful reckoning for the women who grew up carrying the organization’s red and white flag. Many of their mothers and grandmothers did backbreaking work in the agricultural breadbasket of the San Joaquin…
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