Strangely enough, I was working in the fields around Stockton, Sacramento, and I bought a newspaper and I picked it up, and it said that there was a strike going on, you know, and I'm very sure that I, inside of my soul, I was looking for an opportunity to fight back, because my parents had been farmworkers.
Speaker
Agustin Lira
09:29
And we had never had a chance to fight for better wages, but of course we were exploited.
El Teatro Campesino - Latino USA Episode 416
00:00 / 00:00
09:08 - 09:29
Strangely enough, I was working in the fields around Stockton, Sacramento, and I bought a newspaper and I picked it up, and it said that there was a strike going on, you know, and I'm very sure that I, inside of my soul, I was looking for an opportunity to fight back, because my parents had been farmworkers.
Agustin Lira
Labor Organizing
La Huelga
09:29 - 09:36
And we had never had a chance to fight for better wages, but of course we were exploited.
Agustin Lira
Labor Organizing
La Huelga
Project By:Kathryn Gaylon, Luz Gonzalez, Christian Nicholas, and Allysa Tellez