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?
10. The UFWOC used not only propaganda sheets, but ____________sheets.
11. What was the UFWOC’s ‘brilliance’ (108)
12. What attitudes were revealed by Arnold’s quote on page 115 (116)