farm workers (6 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Fine. Handbill, 5-1/4 x 8-1/2 in., printed in orange. Leaflet urging a boycott in support of striking farm workers. The hard-won 1970 contract from the historic UFW strikes expired in 1973 and Gallo then attempted make a deal with the Teamsters union that reneged on many of those protections. When Cesar Chavez again led his members in a strike against Gallo, large numbers of picketing farm workers were arrested and beaten. Two were murdered. This prompted Chavez to call off the strike and call for a nationwide boycott of Gallo.

Original lithographed poster, printed in colors on coated white stock, measuring 45.5cm x 64.5cm (18" x 25.5"). Faint crease at upper center, with some mild scattered foxing on verso; Near Fine. A striking portrait of the president of the United Farm Workers union by Mexican surrealist painter Octavio Ocampo (b.1943), reproduced from his 1989 painting. The central image of Chavez appears above opened heavens and angelic figures, flanked by multitudes of farmworkers, both living and dead, his shirt made up of many picket signs. A moving portrait, and an image that has been reproduced many times over. OCLC notes a single holding at the IISH. 83071.

[1] pp.; 32.7 x 21.7 cm.; black-and-white; edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered; offset-printed Flyer promoting the "Tribute in Action to Martin Luther King, Jr." held April 2, 3, 4, 5, [1971] in New York City. Events include a rally at City Hall, "The People Talk" in Central Park Mall, memorial services for Martin Luther King, Jr., and a citywide mass rally assembling at Union Square Park featuring speakers Dr. Ralph Abernathy, Dr. George Wiley, and Dave Dellinger. Very Good. Folded in four with light handling marks.

Single sheet. 8.5" x 11".Folded in thirds for mailing with return address and postage paid stamped on verso with Berkeley address written in pen. Good+ with light wear along edges, small interior hole, two creased tears, a few pinholes. Light dampstain visible to verso. A rare piece of United Farm Workers ephemera, not found in OCLC or the trade. A call for organizers in the Bay Area to join in anticipation of a community organizing drive in September and October of 1974. Quotes Cesar Chavez on boycotts.

Poster. Zustand: Very Good. Poster. 22" x 14.5". With an image of a Latino man in a hat holding a United Farm Workers flag (the flag features the Aztec eagle), the background of the poster printed in orange. With the phone number for the tickets, locations to buy the tickets, and the ticket prices, the lettering and captions printed in black. The concert was sponsored by the Farmworker Benefit Committee, the Georgetown University Undergraduate Student Government, and the Greater Washington Central Labor Council. Several benefit concerts were held for farm workers during the late 1960's and early 1970's. Musicians like Taj Mahal, Carlos Santana, Joan Baez, Crosby and Nash, and others would play at these concerts. This poster is a bright and visually attractive example of advertising for these concerts. Four pieces of contemporary masking tape on the poster's verso, a few tiny pin holes on the poster's recto.

Good. Soiling in the margins. Size x Inches. This is a c. 1979 Rodolfo Cuellar stylized representation of Northern California, produced for a Cinco de Mayo celebration at California State University, Sacramento (Cal State Sacramento or CSUS for short). In the 1970s, the campus became a center of Chicano activism, closely connected with the United Farm Workers (UFW) movement, led by Caesar Chavez. A Closer Look This sheet presents an abstract view of Northern California, more specifically the Sacramento Valley, looking westwards towards the Golden Gate Bridge. It advertises a series of Cinco de Mayo events organized by the CSUS chapter of MEChA, the Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlán, an activist movement to advocate for Chicano identity among young Mexican-Americans. The weekend featured a series of events, entertainers, and speakers, the most prominent being Caesar Chavez, leader of the UFW, who was originally slated to speak on Friday (his name crossed out in black) but was moved to the previous day. Historical Context This was a tumultuous time for UFW, which lost much of its membership and influence over the preceding decade and was embroiled in a vegetable worker's strike for much of 1979 that resulted in violence, including one death. Meanwhile, Caesar Chavez himself became a symbol in wider American culture of the struggles of farmworkers and of the Mexican-American community. The tireless Chavez became a frequent speaker on campuses, working closely with MEChA. But his increasing forays into 'new age' fads like vegetarianism and communal living, along with an increased emphasis on solidarity with other causes, endeared him a wider group of university students and left-wing activists beyond the Chicano movement. The '10 Years of Struggle' noted at bottom refers to MEChA, which had earlier origins but was formalized at a conference of university students held in Santa Barbara in 1969. Towards right in the bottom margin is the acronym 'RCAF,' referring to the Royal Chicano Air Force, an artist collective formed at CSUS in 1970, of which Cuellar was a leading member. Publication History and Census This work, a screen print, is unsigned but universally attributed to Rodolfo 'Rudy' Cuellar, and was surely produced soon before the 1979 Cinco de Mayo weekend in question. Two other examples of this work are known to exist in institutional collections, one at CSUS as part of the Royal Chicano Air Force Poster Collection and one at the University of California Santa Barbara's Royal Chicano Air Force Archive (digitized by the Online Archive of California, showing Chavez's original speaking slot on Friday).