Here's another video clip from the discussion at the National Steinbeck Center, one that captures some of the emotion as people who lived through the turbulent times try to understand what went wrong -- why the UFW faltered in the 1980s, and why Chavez threw out some of the most talented farmworker leaders.
In this short clip, a German volunteer who was kicked out of the union in one of the earliest purges poses the question of whether there was a turning point, and Chris Hartmire and I talk about the significance of the 1975 Agricultural Labor Relations Law in changing the landscape for the union. Then Chava Bustamante, one of the leaders in the Salinas fields, provides a dramatic coda to the evening.
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