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...fight for farmworkers’ rights is to fight against institutional racism,” Ramirez said...
...This university is able to provide food to its students at the expense of the farm worker,” said Ramirez...
According to Ramirez, laws on the books that prevented farmworkers from organizing were a form of racism...
...have Third World conditions, slavery conditions [in the fields]. They’re living and working in this counry,” Ramirez said during his address...
...Ramirez also discussed what students can do for the cause of farmworkers’ rights. He urged students to vote against corporations that abused farm labor, specifically NORPAC, an Oregon cooperative that sells fruits and vegetables harvested by underpaid farm workers—PCUN’s boycott of NORPAC originated in 1992 and has had several success in recent years...