Once a year we all have an opportunity to recognize the
contributions of the country's nearly 2 million farmworkers, and
support their efforts to gain the dignity and rights they so
deserve. Next Monday, March 27 marks the beginning of National
Farmworker Awareness Week, a series of events and activities
organized by Student Action with Farmworkers to spotlight these
issues and honor the work of legendary labor rights activist
Cesar Chavez. These activities are close to my heart, as it was
as a graduate student in the early 1980s that I was politicized
by the farmworker movement. I remember fondly the days of
surreptitiously putting “Boycott Campbell’s Soup” stickers on
Kroger shelves in Ann Arbor, Michigan. That national boycott
resulted in the precedent-setting, three-way contract with the
farmworkers, the growers, and the Campbell's Soup Company — a
huge victory won by the Farm Labor Organizing Committee. Leading
up to next week's activities is this week's celebration of
United Farm Workers of America vict