THEA 11000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Community Service Organization, Chicano Movement, United Farm Workers
3 Aug 2016
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Chicano theatre: chicano, cuban american, puerto rican. Farm workers living conditions, long labor hours, low wages, toxic pesticide. Cesar chavez- community service organization: encourages voter registration to increase voice. Delores juerta- single mother of 7 children. James drake- california migrant minister: united farmworkers, coordinator f national boycott of table grapes, local union and faced based community orgs based on housing. Quits cso in san jose 1962: refuse to comit to organizing farmworkers. Organize 300 delegate convention at an abandoned theatre in fresno to formalize org frame of fwa (ufw: aztec eagle emblem unveiled. Hunger strike to support worker getting /hr. July 29, 1970- union hall at ufw headquarters to sign union contract. Migrant farmers tell story through song and actos (short plays) No saco nada de la escuela- criticize molingual culturally insensitive school system. Los dos caras del paroncito- depicts public ignorance of farmworkers. El teatro campesino moves away from initial goal of chicano theatre.
