"Show me the suffering of the most miserable So I will know my people's plight...Let the Spirit flourish and grow So that we will never tire of the struggle." --Cesar Chavez
In hushed tones, speaking Spanish, they repeat the prayer: men with rough hands, women with weathered faces, children squirming on their laps. It is a crowded room in an office building in Watsonville, California, strawberry capital of America. On the wall are portraits of Chavez and of the Virgin of Guadalupe. As the prayer ends, Arturo Rodriguez, president of the United Farm Workers of America, points to a map showing...
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