FARMWORKERS’ MOVEMENT
January 10, 2006
Thirty-five years after Cesar Chavez started his famous effort to help poor California farmworkers, relatives invoke his name to raise millions of dollars for a dozen or so tax-exempt organizations that do little to improve the lives of farmworkers, reports the Los Angeles Times in an investigative series. Arturo Rodriguez, who has run the United Farm Workers union since Mr. Chavez, his father-in-law, died in 1993, said the union and related charities changed their operations to help other poor people.
