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When I was growing up in a farm-worker family in southeastern Colorado, I never thought one day I'd end up being el patron (the boss). But in 1994, I came full circle when I found myself bellowing at a group of underpaid day laborers to "hurry up." My hero and brother Cesar Chavez had died in 1993, and in his honor, the United Farm Workers organized a massive effort in 1995 to bring the organizing struggle again to Sacramento. We were retracing the 340-mile march he'd led in 1966 from Delano to Sacramento. The first march had been a historic pilgrimage by farm workers asking for an end to violence and recognition as a legitimate union. Back then, a young Chicano theater ...