At another place, in Kern County, we were sprayed with pesticides. They would come out there with their sprayers and spray us on the picket lines. - Jessie Lopez De La Cruz

It was very hard being a woman organizer. Many of our people my age and older were raised with the old customs in Mexico: where the husband rules, he is king of his house. The wife obeys, and the children, too. So when we first started it was very, very hard. Men gave us the most trouble-neighbors there in Parlier! They were for the union but they were not taking orders from women, they said.

what some agencies are doing, they are hiring people to investigate crime while they should be using this money to put there families to work where they can support their families

we need a change. We need a change for social justice