Viva la Causa!
What a blockbuster summer for politically correct videos! First Heidi Beirich's smash debut exposed the eeeevil motives of border security activists. Now, the Southern Poverty Law Center will release yet another video epic, this time on Cesar Chavez, who worked to better the working conditions and pay of Mexican farmworkers:
In September, SPLC's Teaching Tolerance program will unveil a new documentary film and teaching kit, Viva la Causa!, that focuses on one of the seminal events in the march for human rights — the grape strike and boycott led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta in the 1960s. ...
The new documentary film will chronicle how Chavez, Huerta and their colleagues, inspired by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., created a mass movement to improve the lives of some of the most exploited people in the country — farmworkers who labored for meager wages under appalling conditions in the fields of California. Chavez and Huerta guided a non-violent strike for fair wages that became a movement for social justice.
No doubt Cesar Chavez did indeed improve the lot of Mexican-American farm laborers. But how did he do it? Brace yourselves -- he improved their wages and working conditions by stopping the flow of cheap labor from illegal immigration. As VDARE has noted:
Cesar Chavez, a labor leader intent on protecting union membership, was as effective a surrogate for the INS as ever existed. Indeed, Chavez and the United Farm Workers Union he headed routinely reported, to the INS, for deportation, suspected illegal immigrants who served as strikebreakers or refused to unionize.
Another fine mess! Up to now, the SPLC party line was that illegal immigration does not lower wage levels for native-born Americans. Double oopsies!
SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FROM THE SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER:
Oh, and if you act now, donors who give $100.00 or more to this project celebrating the most famous Mexican-American immigration restrictionist will get their names listed in the credits.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Saturday, July 12, 2008
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Not only that, Chavez utilized tactics against illegal immigrants that went beyond those used by the "racist" Minuteman Project. From the San Diego Union’s Ruben Navarette:
Despite the fact that Chavez is these days revered among Mexican-American activists, the labor leader in his day was no more tolerant of illegal immigration than the Arizona Minutemen are now. Worried that the hiring of illegal immigrants drove down wages, Chavez — according to numerous historical accounts — instructed union members to call the Immigration and Naturalization Service to report the presence of illegal immigrants in the fields and demand that the agency deport them. UFW officials were even known to picket INS offices to demand a crackdown on illegal immigrants.
And in 1973, in one of the most disgraceful chapters in UFW history, the union set up a “wet line” to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States. Under the guidance of Chavez’s cousin, Manuel, UFW members tried at first to convince the immigrants not to cross. When that didn’t work, they physically attacked the immigrants and left some bloody in the process. It happened in the same place that the Minutemen are now planning to gather: the Arizona-Mexico border.
At the time, The Village Voice newspaper said that the UFW conducted a “campaign of random terror against anyone hapless enough to fall into its net.” In their book, “The Fight in the Fields,” Susan Ferris and Ricardo Sandoval recall the border incident and write that the issue of how to deal with the undocumented was “particularly vexing” for Chavez.
Indeed. Illegal Mexican and Central American immigrants have effectively destroyed his union.
Previous post by Snaggle-Tooth Jones, the Colorado Confederatarian
Snaggle-Tooth Jones,
Wow. Just imagine what would've happened if the Minutemen HAD resorted to violence like that.
Makes you wonder if typical SPLC donors would want their names associated with such activities.
Don't worry, they're not going to say anything about Chavez being against illegal immigration. This is just another agitprop piece to win over the coming Latino majority to the SPLC. Brown is the new black.
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