How Filipino-Latino Solidarity Was Born in the Fields

May 19, 2022

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This story is part of the May 19th Project, which promotes solidarity within Asian and Pacific Island communities and with all communities.

In 1965, Filipino farmworkers led by Larry Itliong and Philip Veracruz organized a grape worker's strike in California's Central Valley. Joining with Dolores Huertaand Cesar Chavez, they formed the United Farm Workers. Filipino American rapper Ruby Ibarra narrates how Filipino-Latino solidarity was born in the fields and sparked a global labor movement whose impact reverberates to this very day.

Farm workers Larry Itliong, Philip Veracruz, Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta join forces to spark a global labor movement.

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