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= Human Agenda co-founder Wendy Greenfield.  A lifelong human rights leader, Wendy has worked alongside Dolores for over 40 years to bring justice to farmworkers.=<a href="http://www.alternet.org/education/how-ethnic-studies-programs-have-positive-ripple-effect-academic-performance-risk-youth" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">http://www.alternet.org/education/how-ethnic-studies-programs-have-positive-ripple-effect-academic-performance-risk-youth</a>==arizona outlaws?  
<a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/how-one-law-banning-ethnic-studies-led-to-rise/398885/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2015/07/how-one-law-banning-ethnic-studies-led-to-rise/398885/</a><section id="article-section-1" style="font-size: small; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The irony is that if Arizona lawmakers had never squashed one Mexican American studies class—in a single district in one city—Curtis Acosta would have no interest in duplicating that same class across the country. Certainly, California and Texas public schools would not be considering to offer the course in all its high schools. And Tony Diaz would never have become the book smuggler.In fact, today Mexican American studies has spread to high schools at a rate that no one could have imagined before Arizona banned the class in 2010.“It sped up the evolution by about 25 years,” says Diaz, the self-dubbed “librotraficante,” or book smuggler. “It’s clear to me that our intellectual advancement is a threat to some people, because they tried to make it illegal.”The story of how Mexican American studies flourished begins in 2010, with Arizona House Bill 2281. A group of Republican legislators in the state designed the legislation specifically to ban the course—or more specifically, to ban the Mexican American studies class taught in the Tucson Unified School District, which attracted mostly Latino students. The legislators sought to implement the ban while leaving similar classes geared around Asian, black, and Native American cultures untouched.</section>The housing crisis had crippled Arizona's economy. Legislators had just passed the most controversial anti-immigration law in the country, Senate Bill 1070, which allowed local officers to question people’s citizenship. And the governor, Jan Brewer, had declared (incorrectly) that cartel members were beheading people in the desert. There seemed to be a lot more to worry about than a high-school course.The focus (or some might say vendetta) on Mexican Americans started when Dolores Huerta, an influential activist with United Farm Workers (of Cesar Chavez fame), told students at a Tucson High Magnet School assembly that “Republicans <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/need-to-know/transcripts-full-episode/transcript-february-15-2013/16346/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'0',r'398885'" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">hate Latinos</a>.” The then-state superintendent of public instruction, Tom Horne, dispatched an aide to tell students at the majority-Latino school otherwise. As the aide spoke, students raised their fists and turned their backs.From there on, Horne and his replacement, John Huppenthal, tried with puzzling ferocity to squelch Mexican American studies. The bill designed to eradicate the course said the program taught Latino students to hate other races and that they’d been historically subjugated and mistreated by the government, and that it even encouraged sedition. “When I came into a classroom, they were portraying Ben Franklin as a racist,“ said <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/01/04/arizona.ethnic.studies.ban/" data-omni-click="r'article',r'link',r'1',r'398885'" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; color: rgb(0, 51, 153); outline: none;">Huppenthal</a>. “They got a poster of Che Guevara.”In the spring of 2010, the majority-Republican legislature signed HB 2281 into law....---

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But Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, is not fooled and calls the Latino Water Coalition an obvious front group for the growers which is exploiting Cesar Chavez’ legacy.  She said Cesar was an ardent environmentalist and would never have participated in the April March for Water or demonized the environmentalists.  She also notes the Latino Water Coalition has not lobbied for bills to make it easier for farmworkers to unionize nor has the coalition demanded a living wage, decent housing and clean drinking water for farmworkers before any new dams are built.  The governor, she notes, has vetoed bills to help farmworkers unionize.

The Valley’s newspaper and television coverage of the Latino Water Coalition has been extensive and, at times, almost fawning.

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