What’s It Like To Attend A Cesar Chavez Film Premiere With 1,000 Farm Workers?

Diego Luna, the Cesar Chavez Foundation, and the United Farmworkers of America sponsored an outdoor screening of Cesar Chavez in Delano, Calif., on Tuesday. This is what happened.

After napping for almost two-and-a-half hours on the press bus, I woke up to find this outside my window:

After napping for almost two-and-a-half hours on the press bus, I woke up to find this outside my window:

We were in Delano, Calif., approximately 150 miles north of Los Angeles. This was definitely Farmland, USA.

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As we arrived at Forty Acres, the location of the premiere, loads of people walked off buses waving red flags and chanting "¡SI SE PUEDE!"

As we arrived at Forty Acres, the location of the premiere, loads of people walked off buses waving red flags and chanting "¡SI SE PUEDE!"

The flags were from the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), the union that Chavez helped build at the Forty Acres site.

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