"The spirit and solidarity of those strikers — and their emblematic rallying cry, 'Si, se puede' — are emulated to this day by political campaigns and portrayed in various books, documentaries and motion pictures.
But those romanticized narratives, Paiz said, can be limiting.
'The heroic and tragic story of the UFW movement is less about individual leaders and more about the larger anti-union currents of the era,' said Paiz, who was born and raised in Coachella Valley. 'It’s about the reality that strikers lived through, the love they elicited for one another, and how those experiences compel us to recognize that we're tethered to them, and to history, whether or not we want to be.'
Berkeley News spoke with Paiz recently about some of the hidden figures of the UFW movement, what their lives were like as strikers and how we can leverage their accomplishments to, as Paiz says, 'build a better and capable world.'"
~ Ivan Natividad & Christian Paiz
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