Salinas, CA – United Farm Workers President Arturo Rodriguez and hundreds of farm workers will join the get-out-the-vote rally with Jerry Brown Monday at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas. The 3 p.m. event is part of Brown’s ‘Let’s Get California Working Again Tour.’
The UFW’s nationwide effort to get out the Latino vote so far has mobilized hundreds of farm workers and supporters to walk neighborhoods to help convince Latino voters in California to turn out on Nov. 2 to make Democratic Attorney General Jerry Brown the state’s next governor. The two-week campaign, which kicked off with rallies in Salinas and Santa Rosa last weekend, plans to reach 100,000 California voters.
“"In Spanish, there’s a great expression, ‘Di me con quien andas y te dire quien eres.’ Tell me who you are with and I will tell you who you are. Jerry Brown has decided to spend his final day on the campaign with farm workers and the people of California. Tomorrow, we can make history if we all do everything we can to talk to our friends, neighbors, and coworkers and get-out-the-vote."
As governor from 1975 to 1982, Brown helped Cesar Chavez and the UFW push through the 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: Democratic gubernatorial candidate Jerry Brown, UFW President Arturo Rodriguez and hundreds of farm workers. Rodriguez will be one of the speakers.
WHAT: Get Out the Vote Rally with Jerry Brown
WHEN: Saturday, Oct. 30, 2010 at 3 p.m.
WHERE: National Steinbeck Center, One Main Street, Salinas, CA, 93901
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