• and minimal health-care coverage that janitors received. Justice for Janitors includes more than 225,000 janitors in at least 29 cities in the United States...
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    Valleys in 1907, near the largest irrigation system in the Western Hemisphere. For decades in the early 20th century, Punjabi farming families sent their sons...
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  • janitorial workers in Los Angeles and their fight for better working conditions and the right to unionize. It is based on the "Justice for Janitors"...
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    The University of Miami Justice for Janitors campaign was a nine-week strike by custodial workers at the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida,...
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  • drives have been built around nationwide campaigns, like the earlier Justice for Janitors campaign. SEIU has organized large numbers of home care attendants...
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  • Justice for Janitors campaigns in Washington, D.C., Denver, and Los Angeles. She continued her work for social, economic, and environmental justice,...
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  • addition to the Justice for Janitors campaign, according to Jennifer Jihye Chun, around the same time, the SEIU also engaged in campaigns for "home care workers"...
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    with four agencies of the United States government: the Department of Justice, the Department of State, the INS, and the Border Patrol. This meeting...
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    purebred variety, but of very disreputable origin; and the Spaniards use it for insult and vituperation." In the latter part of the 19th century, it referred...
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    as a civil rights hero. The Justice for Janitors campaign is about immigrants' rights, as many of the organized janitors are from Spanish-speaking or...
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    customized for speed. During the Chicano Movement in the 1970s, lowriders formed car clubs that began to help their community by using these cars for fundraising...
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    a series of "Justice for Janitors" campaigns to unionize U.S. janitors. At a march in Los Angeles on June 15, 1990, the striking janitors - many of whom...
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    refer to the U.S. criminal justice system as gringo justice, because "it reflected one standard for Anglos and another for Chicanos." The criminalization...
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    Youth Liberation Conference held in Denver, Colorado by the Crusade for Justice. There he read a poem, which has come to be known as the preamble to...
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    music on drum beats, jazz music, and bass amongst others. Early influences for Chicano rap include "oldies", funk music and later incorporated conjunto...
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    Mexican-American identity politics in the United States (). This terminology for mixed-race originated as a reference to "La Raza Cosmica" by José Vasconcelos...
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    Three of the four justices who joined the majority opinion written by Justice Brennan wrote their own concurring opinions. Justice Marshall called specific...
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  • is credited with creating the Justice for Janitors campaign, a movement by janitors across the country to organize for better wages and working conditions...
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    OCLC 272303247. López, Ian Haney (2009). Racism on Trial: The Chicano Fight for Justice. Harvard University Press. pp. 1–3. ISBN 9780674038264. Macías, Anthony...
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    Jovita Idar (category Activists for Hispanic and Latino American civil rights)
    for civil rights and social justice for Mexican-Americans. He edited and published La Crónica, which became a major voice for Mexican and Tejano rights...
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  • by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) during their Justice for Janitors campaign. If employers agree not to interfere with the SEIU's organizing...
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    2022). "For Oaxacans in L.A., city councilmembers racist remarks cut deep". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved October 12, 2022. Binational Center for the Development...
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  • Police William H. Parker resulted in eight police officers being indicted for the assaults, 54 being transferred, and 39 suspended. The event was fictionalized...
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    1960s the founding of the Crusade for Justice in Denver and the land grant movement in New Mexico in 1967 set the bases for what would become known as Chicano...
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    Chicana/os. Chicano literature first emerged in the mid-1960s and is notable for its early embrace of Spanglish in published literature as well as its use...
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    riots actually wore the notorious outfit. Solomon, Larry (1998). Roots of Justice Stories of Organizing in Communities of Color. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell...
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    suiters". The suit was a symbol of rebellion due to the rationing of cloth for the war effort. Wearing the longer and loose-fitting jackets and pants was...
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    and blue-eyed Hispanic Sunny And The Sunliners' 'Mr. Brown Eyed Soul' Is For The Loved And Lovelorn : NPR Sunny Ozuna: The Brown Eyed Soul Man|The Village...
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