It took the genius of Csar Chvez, whose family was dispossessed of its land during hisboyhood, to bring them into the American mainstream. As a vegan inspired by Catholicsocial teaching and the non-violent methods of Mohandas Gandhi, Chvez was morecomfortable with religious people than political ones. He set out to create a movementrather than a union, leading a pilgrimage across the Central Valley of California to thestate capital, Sacramento, in 1966. When his followers were blocked by the police they kneltin prayer behind a picture of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
这使塞萨尔查韦斯,这个孩提时代便遭遇一家人流离失所的天才进入了美国主流社会。比起政界人士,作为一名受天主教社会教义以及莫罕达斯甘地非暴力主义鼓舞的素食主义者,他更认同宗教界人士。他打算发起一场运动,而非工会。这场运动是1966年由他领导的穿过加州中部山谷到达州府萨克拉门托的朝圣之旅。当被警察拦下时,他的追随者跪在圣母像前做起了祷告。
The idealism of Chvez s movement and the fasts he endured to win support for strikingfarmworkers caught the public imagination. Other labour leaders looked on aghast as he builtan odd but strong coalition of farmworkers, religious enthusiasts, student radicals, politicians,artists and union officials. Working together they persuaded consumers in their millions toboycott the grapes, lettuces and other products of agribusinesses which refused to negotiatesincerely with the United Farm Workers . The tactic they perfected was described bycritics as victimhood. A photograph of a starving urchin was, for instance, captioned: Everygrape you buy helps keep this child hungry.
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