After 8 p.m. on Tuesday
UFW President Arturo Rodriguez at Jerry Brown event in Oakland
After two-week drive by hundreds of farm workers for Brown, Boxer and other Democratic candidates
Oakland, Calif. – After an intense two-week drive by hundreds of farm workers and supporters urging Latino voters in California’s agricultural valleys to make Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown the state’s next governor and return Barbara Boxer to the U.S. Senate, United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez will join Brown at his election night event in Oakland after the polls close on Tuesday. The UFW campaign reached 100,000 California voters from the Coachella Valley in the south to the Sonoma Valley in the north.
As governor from 1975 to 1982, Brown helped Cesar Chavez and the UFW push throughthe Legislature California’s pioneering 1975 law granting farm workers the right to organize and bargain, abolished use of the infamous back-breaking short-handled hoe, brought farm workers coverage under unemployment insurance and appointed an unprecedented number of Latinos to high public office.
WHO: UFW President Arturo Rodriguez
WHAT: Available at Jerry Brown campaign event
WHEN: After the polls close on Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2010
WHERE: Fox Theater, 1807 Telegraph, Oakland, CA 94612