Immigrant Rights Reading & Discussion Group
Our goal is to develop an understanding of issues dealing with immigration in order to contribute to discussions with compassion, dignity, and respect, as well as to increase the understanding of the connection between immigrant and non-immigrant communities in the U.S.
Join us for our May meeting where we will discuss The Fight in the Fields by Susan Ferriss, Ricardo Sandoval, and Diana Hembree
Monday, May 14, 5:15 - 7:00 p.m.
Office of American Friends Service Committee
901 W. 14th Ave. #7
Denver, CO 80204
303-623-3464
Optional: Bring a snack to share
Sponsored by Coloradans for Immigrant Rights, a project of the American Friends Service Committee, and
Dignity Through Dialogue and Education. For more information call Marcie at 303-670-0034 or AFSC at 303-623-3464
About the book from Booklist:
Cesar Chavez, the founder of the United Farm Workers union, was a man of principles and piety, dedicated, as Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., were, to strategies of nonviolent protest. Still controversial, Chavez is, nonetheless, beginning to fade from our collective consciousness. To preserve his story, two filmmakers, Rick Tejada-Flores and Ray Telles, created a PBS documentary titled The Fight in the Fields, and journalists Ferriss and Sandoval wrote and compiled this powerful, photo-filled biography. They trace Chavez's path from a happy childhood on his family's Arizona farm to the fields of California, where the Chavez family landed after being forced from home during the Depression and the great drought. Chavez never got over his shock at the brutality of farmworkers' lives and the blatant racism they endured. He founded the United Farm Workers union in 1962 to fight for basic human rights, devoting himself to union work at night after picking cotton all day with his wife to support their eight children. All that Chavez accomplished by organizing strikes, protests, and the now legendary grape boycott, was heroic in nature and profound in effect. Donna Seaman
Jordan T. Garcia
Immigrant Rights Organizer
Coloradans For Immigrants Rights (CFIR)
"Organizing Citizens to Support Immigrants Rights!"
a project of the American Friends Service Committee
901 W. 14th Ave. #7
Denver, Colorado 80204
303-623-3464
303-623-3492 (fax)
http://www.afsc.org/central/ImmigrantRights/immigrant-rights.htm
