After Cesar Chavez: The fight for farmworker rights isn’t over

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By Brentin MockMar 31, 2015, 3:49 pm77 pts
The irony of nonviolent resistance is that it needs violence to be effective. The spectacle of mobs, deputized and otherwise, billy-clubbing people as they turn cheeks until they run out of cheeks to turn, tends to assault the consciences of those observing. Gandhi understood this, as did his acolytes Bayard…

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