[Late 1960s-Early 1970s Anti-War Marches]
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thank you [Applause] [Applause] today [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] 17 members of the British Parliament send our best wishes to the American people who are demonstrating against the war in Vietnam [Applause] hello now let's go away [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] and decide to say this on their demands they issued a list of Demands the president is concerned [Applause] [Applause] thank you I've written to some people who have I vote Yes on it yes by all means last few years [Applause] where you have teachers who respect you confidence [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you little deer [Applause] September I don't know why it took until May [Applause] okay um [Applause] with Governor Reagan and have I understand his reasoning in the matter and away from this campus elsewhere and it is this unique and extraordinary thing that we must come to grips with what is unique is magazine [Music] [Applause] we are man [Applause] now we don't feel lonely nationally because we know that there are 400 colleges and universities in the country thank you [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] what about a strike thank you [Applause] [Music] to shoot the police okay [Music] [Applause] okay the next speaker to represent the word will go forth all over the country it'll go to all parts of California and Cesar Chavez with his farm labor movement is strongest in terms of numbers and National influence started his battle against California Growers three years ago then we will never stop our job will not be done until every public is organized in the larger cities under the banner of La Raza Unida they picked and boycott and marched to make their voices heard California has the largest concentration of Mexican Americans an estimated 1.7 million consisting of about 420 000 families eighty percent are native born Americans of these 350 000 families live in it on an average income of less than two thousand dollars per year average education is about eight years of schooling four years less than anglos two years less than blacks the Vicious Cycle begins all over again Cesar Chavez set out three years ago to win for California's Vineyard workers Privileges and rights that working men elsewhere had been enjoying for years or more now Elementary democracy collective bargaining and Union recognition a fair wage and decent working conditions California Farm labor makes four billion dollars with the help of an estimated 300 to 350 000 Mexican-American agricultural workers with the help of a powerful Lobby in Congress illegal alien scab labor from Mexico and a curious exemption from the National Labor Relations Act most Growers have held out against concessions what
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