Cesar Chavez And Environmental Injustice

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4- Ways the least powerful can also impacted the course of environmental injustice and /or racism: Despite their limited resources and power, the United Farm Workers(UFW) led by Cesar Chavez has considerably impacted the environmental injustice and/or racism. Cesar Chavez has succeeded where many have failed to create the UFW organization that today include thousands of farm workers(UFW, 2016a). In 1968, the boycott of California Grapes around he nation has been an important step that the movement has took(Gordon, 1999). This boycott has led to an enormous decrease in sales. Thus increased the media attention to the movement. Thus, the UFW took that opportunity to first address their concern about pesticide exposure in these vulnerable farm

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