His family was rather poor and inhabited a small adobe home (United Farm Workers). As a young boy during the 1930’s he saw many people lose their jobs and homes, and had to “basically walk around the country in order to find a new job” (Chavez). When Chavez was ten, due to the drought in the southwest, his parents were forced to become migrant farm workers (Chavez). After his parents became migrant farm workers Chavez had attended over "thirty different schools and was only able to obtain up to a seventh grade education" (Chavez). Due to all of these cruel and exhausting experiences, Chavez established a movement known as the Farm Workers Movement that eventually became very …show more content…
In his speech, Chavez speaks about the potential well-being and outcome of farm workers if no one takes a stand. Chavez introduces George Deukmejian, a republican governor, who was paid one million dollars to run for governor of California. Since Deukmejian took office, he began to pay back each of his debts to the growers with the blood and sweat of farm workers. With Deukmejian in office, he did not enforce the law as it was written against those who broke it. Instead, he invited growers who broke the law to seek relief from the government. Chavez explains that with these laws not being