Philadelphia Every once in a while I run into something scary, not because it has to do with nuclear meltdowns or corrupt mortgage brokers or community-and-family killing slumlords, all of which are real things. I am also seriously concerned when there is an expropriation of the good for purposes of the evil. These are times …
Tag: UFW
Chavez, Alinsky, the UFW, and the Modern Labor Movement
New Orleans Frank Bardacke’s Trampling Out the Vintage: Cesar Chavez and the Two Souls of the United Farm Workers is a mountain of a book at 800 pages. Reportedly, it took Bardacke fifteen years to write and was edited down from twice that length. A friend said to me recently that he believed it might be …
Understanding Chavez by Understanding Alinsky?
Rock Creek I don’t know how many books I have now read about Cesar Chavez and the United Farm Workers over the years. Maybe a dozen? Maybe two dozen? In the early ones fresh from the footsteps of the marches with the banners waving, the adulation was almost so thick that it was hard for an …