Chp 3 Pulido last section UFWOC

Chp 3 Pulido last section UFWOC
1. The UFWOC was ‘obsessive’ in their use of litigation. Why was this so? (90)
“The legal undertakings were defensive actions intended to both harass and to impinge upon agribusiness as well as to achieve substantive improvements in worker and community exposure through pesticide reduction”.
2. Why was Chavez cautious with regard to the pesticide issue? (91) could expand
This issue has both external and internal impacts that can be very powerful. Chavez realized that this issue required carefully planned actions so that the workers could retain secure union jobs as well as employment in the grape industry.
3. The several lawsuits that occurred in 1968 were designed to gain access to pesticide application records. What were their demands in their attempt to settle out of court? (93)
They wanted to have more regulation and access to information on the use of the pesticides. This included having an easily accessible way to find out what was sprayed. In addition, they wanted to know the crop that the pesticide was being used on, how much was sprayed, who applied the pesticide and how they applied the pesticide. They also wanted to know when and where the pesticides were being used. This included identifying the crop that the pesticide (s) was/were being used on and the wind conditions during the application of the pesticide. They wanted to be notified three days before the application of a pesticide and written warnings in Spanish and English. The goal of these actions were to require professional sprayers to notify all farmers when they were applying “injurious materials” and to help the farmers determine how damaging to human health these pesticides would be.
4. Why were the UFWOC’s demands of disclosure put down time and time again by judges? (95, 96)
5. Why was the ‘Riverside ruling’ (Uribe v Howie, 1971) historic? (96-97)
6. Why was EDF included in the petition to reform pesticide regulations (99)
“To enhance credibility”: I don’t understand what the EDF is it seems like it is a way to make the people who would be ?e?ffected by the legislative reform seem more significant

7. Who finally won the ban on DDT? (100) EDF
8. What have the majority of US pollution control efforts emphasized? What is the difficulty with this? (102)
9. What was the big win in Solis and Torres v Fielder, 1970? (104)
The outcome of the court case was that Jerry Fielder, the director of CDFA, became required to do not only what his job explicitly called for, but also to do a little additional work. ?By law?, Jerry Fielder was required to control and regulate any pesticide “injurious to the environment, humans, animals or crops (Section 14001). After public input and more examination, the director must
10. The UFWOC used not only propaganda sheets, but strategy and information sheets (107).
11. What was the UFWOC’s ‘brilliance’ (108)
They created a variety of ways to allow people to become involved and thought of more than one way to get the pesticide industry and government to meet their demands. The UFWOC did workshops for groups curious about farmworkers and pesticides. They created a newspaper called El Malcriado to share more information farmworkers and pesticides. They created multiple options for participation in the movement and each level of dedication had different actions associated with it. There were three levels of dedication and the actions in the levels of dedication increased in time and effort as the level of commitment desired increased. For example,

Other reasons why these methods were so successful were because the majority of them could be done by anyone anywhere except these two The UFWOC did workshops for groups curious about farmworkers and pesticides. They created a newspaper called El Malcriado to share more information farmworkers and pesticides. But people could tell other people about the newspaper and read the newpaper even if they couldn’t be involved in writing it In addition, they could be done in combination with each other to have an even greater effect than just doing one individually.
12. What attitudes were revealed by Arnold’s quote on page 115 (116)