In this discussion assignment you are become a member of the CaesarChavez organization and to write a study of his life, times,organization and successes to show that Caesar Chavez day in Californiais a well deserved tribute to this minority leader.This is the official web site of the United FarmWorkers: it gives us some excellent material on the life and work ofChavez. It shares some of his speeches and even has a movie to view: http://www.ufw.org/Links to an external site.. Links to an external site.Here are more sites on the life and times and work of Chavez: http://castle.eiu.edu/~wow/classes/fa03/cclinks.html (Links to an external site.) and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez (Links to an external site.) and http://www.gavilan.edu/library/chavez.html

Finally you are going to comment on whether youfeel that the border situation is improving today and agree or disagreewith two other students. Good luck.

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HelloEveryone, I am going to tell you about an organization that I haverecently joined; it is called the “Cesar Chavez foundation”. Thisorganization was created and led by a farmer named Caesar Chavez. Cesarwas born on March 31, 1927. He grew from immigrant parents working aspeasants. Since his childhood, he has been working for his living likehis parents. During his years of work and co-existence with his fellowworkers, he witnessed hard suffering with cheap wages from the farmowners. From his personal experience, he also witnessed the theft byfarm owners from the workers. During the 1960s, the poor in America hadmany job opportunities in California. Workers had a minimum wage of $1.25 an hour, while اis fellow farmworkers received $ 90.0 an hour.Despite the harsh agricultural work carried out by farmworkers anddegrading and dangerous working conditions plus the absence of freshwater and clean places. The workers were being paid for that low wage,living and settling in shacks constructed by the owners of the farmsthat served as farm camps. Farmworkers tried to stand up for goodworking conditions but were denied the right to vote or the right toorganize and form trade unions to demand fair wages, decent housing, andother social rights. Cesar Chavez wanted to improve the lives of theseagricultural workers. At that time, California had various working-classnationalities, but most were Hispanics. In his experience, Chavez wasaware that their civil rights were being violated and that they had beenforcibly forced by the need to work at very low wages, in unsafeworking conditions. Initially, Chavez and his comrades were not allowedto form a union that would unite and speak their community name, whileother non-Hispanic workers had the right to form unions, receive fairwages, and adequate housing as stipulated in the US Constitution. Withthe steadfastness of the workers, defamation campaigns and solidaritycampaigns with each other, Chavez and his comrades were able to form andbuild the Union of Agricultural Workers’ Union, which had greatpolitical power as thousands of Americans supported the demands ofagricultural workers. Over five years of strikes and sit-ins, theAgricultural Workers’ Union (UAW) was able to obtain the right toorganize and recognize their demands. In 1975, they were given the rightto form a union and also to vote or boycott elections for agriculturalworkers. Today, agricultural workers have the right to elect their ownrepresentatives and demand improved working conditions from within USparliamentary institutions. Chavez has never been forgotten. From 1962until his death on April 23, 1993, Cesar worked to improve the lives ofagricultural workers. The struggle of Cesar Chavez has become part of anational struggle to improve the lives of the poor, conducted voterregistration campaigns, and expanded the civil rights of people who havebeen denied their rights.

In my opinion about the border situation, I don’t think that thereare big improvements at the time but that doesn’t mean that it isimpossible. Everyone can see the big increase of the immigrant’s arrivalat the border that is trying to cross the border. They are all tryingto seek a better life here in the USA. And we can see that the newAmerican Administration doesn’t allow undocumented workers to enter thecountry. All these border situations were managed by Cesar Chavez at histime.

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By reading of the third chapter of the History of the United

States and from my reading of the information on the Wikipedia website, I

have information about Cesar Chavez: – Cesar Chavez was born in Yuma,

Arizona, from a Mexican-American family of Mexican origin on March 31,

1927, and moved with his family to Brawley. In California as a migrant

worker after his father’s farm in Colorado failed, at the beginning of

his life he worked as a manual laborer in Delano and then in 1946 Chavez

joined the U.S. Navy and was sent to the training center in San Diego,

then married for the first time in 1948 to Helen Fabella, the second

time he was a son. D married Sylvia in 1950, and the third time he

married Linda in 1951, and in this praise, Chávez befriended two social

justice activists, Fred Ross and Father Donald McDonnell, both European

Americans, whose activities were primarily in Mexican society. The

American chávez helped Fred Ross establish a branch of the Community

Service Organization in 1952 in San Jose, and McDonnell presented

Chavez’s books, where Chavez wrote the biography of Saint Francis of

Assisi as well as wrote about the American entrepreneur John Lewis as

well as Eugene Debs and also wrote in the field of independence for

Mahatma Gandhi.
He participated in a community service organization

in which he helped workers where he was an American labor leader and

Latin American civil rights activist and worked with Dolores Huerta,

then co-founded the National Farm Workers Association and after a while,

the name of this association was changed to the United Farm Workers

Union (UFW). In early 1957, he moved to Brawley, opened a branch of the

organization there, worked with Mexican farmers and established an

employment committee in the Central Control Office, through which

unemployed farmers are registered and their names signed to prove their

desire to work, in 1959 I moved Chavez to Los Angeles and became the

national director of the Organization of American Unity officially, and

so Chavez became the most famous civil rights activist in Latin America

and american workers voted for him strongly, the goal of the

organization is to help those in need solve the social and economic

problems to raise the level of Chavez has set up several branches of the

organization throughout California, and eventually became the director

general of the entire organization, in 1961, resigned from his position

as director of the organization because he failed to achieve his goal of

Helping farm workers, He began to help farm workers with all his

energy, so he refused a job in the Peace Corps since during that period

he spent most of his time traveling between workers and immigrants to

prove the foundation and laws of the organization. Six months after his

strike, he staged a strike among rose farmers in McFarland, California,

against grape growers in the Delano area. The Philippine-American Union

and the Mexican-American Union united together and formed the organizing

committee for united farmworkers.
In 1966, Chavez and all those who

supported him made the pilgrimage 300 miles to Sacramento, their motto

was “Pilgrimage, Repentance, and Revolution”, and Chavez fasted for 25

days, during which he lost thirty-five pounds because of the suffering

of farm workers. In 1971, Chavez and food officials signed problems

against the agricultural union and the problems between the two unions

continued until 1973, and now Chavez is seen as a saint and sometimes as

a demon, but whether people love him and respect him or hate him, he

has had an impact on the organization The farmer because it was

previously not organized and has no specific objectives to try to

achieve, and between 1976 and 1988 there were some setbacks and changes

where there were some who opposed Chavez’s ideas based on reducing his

view of the UFW organization as a movement.
Chavez lived the life of

an immigrant, used unions and a progressive approach without any use of

violence to reach part of the American dream, and he received many

medals in recognition and honor for his efforts, and even after his

death, he received medals in honor of what he gave to Mexicans in 1988.

Grape farmers protest against the exposure of farmworkers to

agricultural pesticides and have fasted for 35 days in protest against

the use of pesticides and this fasting caused him many health problems.
Chavez

died on April 23, 1993, and was buried at the Chávez National Center on

the campus of the United American Farm Workers’ Headquarters in Kern

County. On the 22nd of his death, Chavez became a major historical

symbol of the Latin community, and many streets, schools, and parks were

named after him because his work changed a lot of union workers’

conditions for the better, and his birthday on March 31 became a federal

memorial holiday in California, after his death, was awarded the

Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994 by President Bill Clinton, and in

2012 President Barack Obama appointed the Cesar Chavez National Monument

within the National Park.
From my reading of chapter three, I see

that the terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda on the United States

on September 11, 2001, have made the government increase internal and

border security measures, where it has stepped up police patrols and

operations on the 2,000-mile border with Mexico in order to Stop and

limit the immigration of Undocumented Mexicans to the United States of

America coming to work to improve their standard of living.