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Homegrown revolution: Magdaleno Rose-Avila offers a historical perspective on the social action theater of Teatro Campesino.(protest & art)

Colorlines Magazine

| September 22, 2003 | Rose-Avila, Magdaleno | COPYRIGHT 2003 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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