Good morning, welcome. Today we are very fortunate to have a very special guest with us, miriam pawel. However, i would like to introduce myself first so you know who to complain to later. My name is greg berrios. Im a former book editor of the san Antonio Express news. I worked for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times. Currently i write for the los angeles review of books and im on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. Im also the author of a book of poetry that deals with lacausa. In fact, its called, lacausa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former Pulitzer Prize winning editor who spent 25 years working at newsday and the Los Angeles Times. Her book, the crusades of cesar chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic, charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of chavezs United Farm Workers Move
Captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2008 he goes to san jose state, becomes a promising playwright, working with the San Francisco troupe in 1965 when the strike starts and part of a sort of radical group in the San Francisco bay area, and thats an important part of the story too i think because, again, things didnt happen in a vacuum. It was the Civil Rights Movement was very strong and a lot of the real early support that made the union successful came out of that San Francisco area. He has to decide, hes 25, his play about to be produced off broadway and does he go to new york or back to delano to help the farm workers. He goes back, he tells caesar he wants to start a theater for farm workers and he says we dont have any money, actor, anything, sure, go ahead if you want. He begins what becomes the for people who dont know theres a wonderful website that the university of california at Santa Barbara has put together that has actual video that you can see there on line
Process is not going to be used against them. So im wondering if we can do some followup. I know that director arntz and simle will do followup. But i would be happy to be involved in the conversation and see how we can maybe get a few more organizations that have the trust and the relationships with the latin x and africanamerican communities in San Francisco because for different reasons, those are the two communities that are underrepresented in their voting and to not have at least a number of organizations focused on those hardesttoreach communities, i think, is a problem. And so, maybe we can figure this out and this can be some of our followup. That would be great. Well, thank you so much and if theres no other questions, or comments, thank you again for the excellent work and presentations. I look forward to this one point of followup and the more extensive followup that director simle will do to do race is Equity Analysis of the plan and looking forward to voting in the extrem
My name is greg barrios. Im a former book editor of the san Antonio Express news. I worked for many years in los angeles for the Los Angeles Times. Ive written for the new york times, currently, i right for the los angeles review of books, and i am on the board of directors of the National Book critics circle. I am also the author of the book of poetry that deals with la causa. In fact, its called la causa. At this time i would like to introduce miriam. Miriam is the former pulitzer prizewinning editor who spent 25, with the Los Angeles Times. The crusade of cesar chavez, a biography is the First Comprehensive biography of the iconic, charismatic leader. She has also written the union of their dreams, a widely acclaimed and nuanced history of chavezs United Farmworkers Movement. She recently received a humanities endowment of fellowship to support the chavez biography. Please welcome miriam powel. [ applause ] thank you. Hi, miriam. Hi, greg. Thanks. Can you hear me . Im on. I want to
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