{"id":401355,"date":"2019-03-26T02:34:41","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-militant-farmworker-brushed-out-of-history\/"},"modified":"2019-03-26T02:34:41","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T01:34:41","slug":"a-militant-farmworker-brushed-out-of-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/a-militant-farmworker-brushed-out-of-history\/","title":{"rendered":"a Militant Farmworker Brushed Out of History"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Image Source Pakal Hatuey\u2019s Youtube Video: Complete Interview With Epifanio Camacho<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Cesar Chavez is perhaps best known for his role in the 1965-1970 Delano grape strike and boycott and his nonviolent tactics in those protests.<\/p>\n

Although Chavez insisted on nonviolence, there was dissent within the National Farmworkers Association as some workers believed more militant tactics were necessary. One of these workers was Epifanio Camacho. \u00a0With Cesar Chavez day approaching, it is important to remember the work and life of Epifanio Camacho, who recently published his memoir<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Epifanio Camacho: The Making of a Militant<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Camacho\u2019s life story is critical to understanding how and why he became militant.<\/p>\n

Epifanio Camacho was born in San Agust\u00edn, a village of about 150 inhabitants, in the province of Tamaulipas, Mexico, on the eve of the Mexican Revolution. Camacho spent his formative years in Mexico and migrated to the United States in 1955 when he was in his thirties.<\/p>\n

Camacho\u2019s first job was in Corpus Christi, Texas, where he worked as a gravedigger. His employer consistently underpaid him and Camacho eventually tired of this and left. He went to Oklahoma to pick cotton and then to Arizona to do the same. From there, he went to the Coachella Valley in California, where he picked dates. Eventually, he got a job at Montebello Rose in McFarland, California grafting rose plants.<\/p>\n

The Rose Grafting Strike in McFarland<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

In McFarland, Camacho realized that he could not run from one…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image Source Pakal Hatuey\u2019s Youtube Video: Complete Interview With Epifanio Camacho Cesar Chavez is perhaps best known for his role in the 1965-1970 Delano grape strike and boycott and his nonviolent tactics in those protests. Although Chavez insisted on nonviolence, there was dissent within the National Farmworkers Association as some workers believed more militant tactics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-401355","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}