Interesting explanation of the value of radio in reaching and organizing migrant workers and other immigrants; contrast between worker organizing with and without the protection of Federal labor law. Early experience with the Chicano movement, anti-war movement; Led statewide Farah Pants boycott; became an organizer for CASA, then Willamette Valley Immigration Project; now ED of PCUN (Tree-planters and Farmworkers United) in Oregon.
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Ramirez, Ramon, Community Organizer Genealogy Project oral history interviews, Ms.2015.016, Brown University Library
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The Center for Community Change created the Community Organizer Genealogy Project in order "to document the development of community organizing, the development of individual organizers and the connections among organizers, organizations and networks." The project was led by Don Elmer …
