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Meeting # 3,323 -Two original organizers from the UFW from 60's and 70's, Marcos and Andrea Munoz, will speak. They were involved with Chávez's efforts to organize 50,000 farm workers in California, some of whom were braceros - temporary workers from Mexico permitted to live and work in the United States in agriculture, and required to return to Mexico if they stopped working. Chávez's efforts were opposed, sometimes violently, by the owners of the large industrial farms. The film touches on several major nonviolent campaigns by the UFW: the Delano grape strike, the Salad Bowl strike, and the 1975 Modesto march.