{"id":579,"date":"2017-06-09T03:11:06","date_gmt":"2017-06-09T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stevezeltzer.com\/laborfest\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=579"},"modified":"2019-06-29T14:10:51","modified_gmt":"2019-06-29T21:10:51","slug":"song-of-the-stubborn-one-thousand","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/event\/song-of-the-stubborn-one-thousand\/","title":{"rendered":"Song of The Stubborn One Thousand: The Watsonville Canning Strike, 1985 \u2013 87"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"style386\">Book reading by<\/span> <strong><em>Peter Shapiro <\/em><\/strong><span class=\"style386\"><br \/>\nOn September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the \u201cfrozen food capital of the world,\u201d were forced out on strike in an attempt by Watsonville Canning\u2019s owner, Mort Console, to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund local union had been revitalized, and Watsonville\u2019s Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics.<br \/>\nAt a time when organized labor was in headlong retreat, the Watsonville Canning strike was a dramatic show of the power of women workers, whose struggle became a rallying point for the Chicano movement.<br \/>\nApart from its sheer drama, the strikers\u2019 story illuminates the challenges facing a group of ordinary working people who waged a protracted and ultimately successful struggle against seemingly insurmountable odds.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Free | <em>Book reading by Peter Shapiro<\/em> | <\/strong> On September 9, 1985, one thousand mainly Mexican women workers in Watsonville, California, the \u201cfrozen food capital of the world,\u201d were forced out on strike in an attempt by Watsonville Canning\u2019s owner, Mort Console, to break their union. They returned to work eighteen months later. Not one had crossed the picket line. A moribund local union had been revitalized, and Watsonville\u2019s Latino majority emerged as a major force in local politics. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":756,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[82,30,37],"class_list":["post-579","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-2017-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-30","tribe_events_cat-forum_reading","cat_2017-forum-reading","cat_27","cat_forum_reading"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/579\/revisions\/2408"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}