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- I remember we were 
working, when my father says,

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"Come on, we're leaving"

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I says, "We're leaving?

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"It's 10.00 o'clock 
in the morning"

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So we left.

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- To go on strike to 
suffer a lot of hardship.

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Maybe you get hungry, maybe 
you're gonna lose your car,

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maybe you're gonna 
lose your house.

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- And I remember 
leaving the field,

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and driving to the,

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seeing the strikers, 
so the Filipinos.

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- [Narrator] But the 
Filipinos face a dilemma

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as they strike for a union,

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the farmers bring in Mexican 
workers to replace them.

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- It's one of the 
things I learned

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that the farmers like to do.

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They like to pit the Mexicans 
against the Filipinos

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because you're gonna be fighting 
for the same pot of gold.

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- [Narrator] Many Mexican 
laborers have already joined

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the National Farm 
Workers Association,

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led by the charismatic 
Caesar Chavez.

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- I remember meeting 
at the Filipino

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Community Hall in Toledo.

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All the labor 
contractors were there

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and a lot of the farm 
workers were there

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and they're trying to decide,

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are we gonna end the strike

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or are we going to negotiate 
with the Mexicans to join us?

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And then, Larry Itliong says,

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"I'm gonna go talk 
to the Mexicans"

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- When the strike 
happens, Caesar Chavez

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wasn't really quite ready.

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But Caesar also knew,

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that if they didn't 
join the Filipinos then,

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then they would never have.

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- [Narrator] Larry 
approaches Cesar Chavez

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and is calling Dolores Huerta 
as one of AWOKS co-founders

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her relationship with 
Larry and the Filipinos

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goes back years.

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- And then a couple 
of days later,

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we're at this church.

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They're talking 
about this strike.

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They're discussing, 
should we go on strike

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or not go on strike?

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And all of a sudden 
there's this swaga

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I said, "What the heck's swaga?"

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Because I thought they 
were saying, hell no.

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They said, "it means strike, 
we're going on strike"

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And so the Mexicans joined us.

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- Where are your brothers 
and sisters over here?

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Come on.