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Wendy Goepel sorting envelopes at Filipino Hall, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Wendy Goepel had a central role in the NFWA. She moved from Massachusetts to California in 1958, to join the California Migrant Ministry and study sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. She quickly learned in which conditions the farmworkers’ families were living as she spent her first Californian summer working and living in different labor camps near Bakersfield in Kern County. As a student from Berkeley, she traveled to Stockton to meet Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla, and after earning her master at Stanford she quit her PhD studies to work on a new project at the California Health Department, the Farmworker Health Service.<\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/96.01.EC_.N35.B1.01.09.15.png” background_position=”top_center” background_vertical_offset=”22%” min_height=”75vh” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/15\/” link_option_url_new_window=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ module_id=”section-english” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”336.8px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_3,2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”auto||auto||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” link_option_url_new_window=”on” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/15\/” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Wendy Goepel talking to a driver, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n From 1963 to 1965 she led a team of survey interviewers inquiring about the health, housing, and economic conditions of migrant farmworkers living in Kern, Kings, and Tulare County and writing reports about the health status of Black, Filipino, and Okie farmworkers. During these times she met C\u00e9sar and Helen Ch\u00e1vez and formed Citizens for Farm Labor, a group that included other activists and unionists such Anne Draper and Bill Esher. Esher wanted to publish a magazine in Delano, and Goepel financed him by sending him $50 a month so that he could live and work in Delano, where he started the newspaper <\/span>El Malcriado<\/span><\/i>.<\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#D22030″ locked=”off” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_5,3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_color=”#D22030″ width=”100%” max_width=”100%” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FMC_529_full.jpg” alt=”UFW volunteer and organizer Wendy Goepel is working on marking picket signs in the basement of the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, in Los Angeles. %22This was in Los Angeles,%22 she said in an email after seeing this photograph. %22After the harvest we went to LA to do informational picketing during shift changes at big manufacturing plants. Every car leaving the parking lot got leafletted; some gave small money; many gave encouragement; none could buy grapes after meeting us! There were about ten of us. I loved making signs and did it a lot in the church basement where we were living on their floor.%22<\/p>\n Wendy Goepel, voluntaria y organizadora de UFW, est\u00e1 trabajando en hacer pancartas en el s\u00f3tano de la Iglesia de la Epifan\u00eda en Lincoln Heights, in Los Angeles. %22Esto fue en Los \u00c1ngeles. Despu\u00e9s de la cosecha, fuimos a Los \u00c1ngeles para hacer piquetes informativos durante los cambios de turno en las grandes plantas de fabricaci\u00f3n,%22 dijo Goepel en un correo electr\u00f3nico despu\u00e9s de ver esta foto. %22Cada autom\u00f3vil que sal\u00eda del estacionamiento recibi\u00f3 folletos; algunos dieron dinero peque\u00f1o; muchos dieron \u00e1nimos; \u00a1ninguno pudo comprar uvas despu\u00e9s de conocernos! \u00c9ramos unos diez. \u00a1Viv\u00edamos en la parte baja de la cadena alimenticia, seguro! Me encantaba hacer letreros y lo hice. mucho en el s\u00f3tano de la iglesia donde viv\u00edamos, en su piso.%22″ title_text=”Wendy Goepel making picket signs at the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, 1966″ url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/529″ url_new_window=”on” _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_5″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”40px” text_line_height=”1.2em” custom_margin=”0px||||false|false” custom_padding=”|10vh||5vh|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Wendy Goepel making picket signs at the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, Los Angeles, 1966<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_text_color=”#FFFFFF” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” header_4_text_color=”#FFFFFF” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”||||false|false” custom_padding=”|10vh||5vh|false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n UFW volunteer and organizer Wendy Goepel is working on marking picket signs in the basement of the Church of the Epiphany in Lincoln Heights, in Los Angeles. “This was in Los Angeles,” she said in an email after seeing this photograph. “After the harvest we went to LA to do informational picketing during shift changes at big manufacturing plants. Every car leaving the parking lot got leafletted; some gave small money; many gave encouragement; none could buy grapes after meeting us! There were about ten of us. I loved making signs and did it a lot in the church basement where we were living on their floor.”<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”2_3,1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”auto||auto||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”2_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n In the winter of 1965 Goepel got a new job working at Governor Pat Brown\u2019s office for the War on Poverty in California project. That didn’t last long and the project did not benefit the farmworkers as valley growers were democrats and the democrat governor did not intend to upset them in a significant way. But it is during this time that Goepel got closer to Ch\u00e1vez. She was working on six grant applications in the San Joaquin Valley for local improvement projects, one of which was for the NFWA. In September 1965, when C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez asked her to join the NFWA she did not hesitate.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”1_3″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” background_image=”http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/FMC_5_full.jpg” background_position=”top_center” background_vertical_offset=”49%” min_height=”75vh” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/5\/” link_option_url_new_window=”on” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” min_height=”336.8px” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”auto||auto||true|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” link_option_url_new_window=”on” link_option_url=”https:\/\/cdm17169.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/FMC\/id\/5\/” sticky_enabled=”0″]<\/p>\n Wendy Goepel working at a desk in the NFWA office, Delano, ca. 1966. Photo by Emmon Clarke.<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.21.0″ _module_preset=”default” text_font_size=”20px” text_line_height=”1.6em” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n On September 16, a day after a strike vote was called at Filipino Hall, Goepel quit her job at Farmworkers Health Services and joined Ch\u00e1vez. In the fall of 1965, as soon as the strike began, Goepel was in charge of the press working from the office in Negrito Hall, in Delano, writing press releases. In the following months she moved to Washington to develop rural health. Once again, Ch\u00e1vez went looking for her, asking her to help him raise money to establish a medical clinic. During this time, she met C\u00e9sar\u2019s new doctor, David Brooks. 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As a child, Padilla picked cotton in the fields with his dad and eight siblings. Like many children in the fields, he carried a small cotton sack around his waist. He was only six years old during the great cotton strike of 1933, but he heard the stories and absorbed the essential lesson of organized labor.<\/span><\/p> [\/et_pb_text][et_pb_button button_text=\"Espa\u00f1ol\" button_alignment=\"right\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_button][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_image=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Bonnie-Chatfield-Gilbert-Padilla-Helen-Chavez-and-Jessica-Govea-working-at-the-Farm-Worker-Service-Center-Delano-ca.-1966.jpg\" background_position=\"top_center\" background_vertical_offset=\"22%\" min_height=\"75vh\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" min_height=\"336.8px\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"1_3,2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_margin=\"auto||auto||true|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p> Segregation and discrimination were common and shocking for him. Although whites and Mexicans picked cotton together in the same crews, the Mexicans lived in one camp and the whites in another on the Hamburg ranch in Los Ba\u00f1os. There was one elementary school for Mexicans and two for whites in Azusa. Housing was segregated, but also movie theaters and public swimming pools.<\/span><\/p> \u00a0<\/p> He was discharged from the U.S. Army in 1947, and like many, his perspective changed as he worked with whites and was a squad leader. He went to work for a dry cleaner and went back to the fields, where he met C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez in 1955. When Ch\u00e1vez became the national director of the Community Service Organization (CSO), he assigned Padilla to the CSO service center in Stockton.<\/span><\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" locked=\"off\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_5,3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" background_color=\"#D22030\" width=\"100%\" max_width=\"100%\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_image src=\"http:\/\/farmworkermovement-csun.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Cesar-Chavez-and-Helen-Chavez-standing-in-front-of-the-State-Capitol-Sacramento-1966.jpg\" alt=\"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez are standing in front of State Capitol on the last day of the march from Delano to Sacramento. C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez briefly addressed the crowd that day. \u201cIt is well to remember that in defeat there must be courage, but also that in victory, there must be humility,\u201d Chavez said. He then thanked the organizations offered support and the farmworkers who went on strike. At the end of his talk he personally thanked Helen Ch\u00e1vez. \u201cAnd I want to introduce to you someone, when we started organizing four years ago, in fact one of the very few people that thought that this could be done, my wife, Helen.%22\" title_text=\"C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=\"3_5\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_text_color=\"#FFFFFF\" text_font_size=\"40px\" text_line_height=\"1.2em\" custom_margin=\"15vh||||false|false\" custom_padding=\"|10vh||5vh|false|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez and H\u00e9len Ch\u00e1vez standing in front of the State Capitol, Sacramento, 1966 There, Padilla secured a grant in 1961 from the Bishops\u2019 Committee on Migratory Labor in Chicago to study housing conditions for local farmworkers. In March of 1962, Ch\u00e1vez resigned as director of CSO, moved to Delano, and in September, established the Farm Workers Association with Padilla and Dolores Huerta among the founding members and part of the key leadership<\/span><\/p> [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=\"1\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_row column_structure=\"2_3,1_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" custom_margin=\"auto||auto||true|false\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_column type=\"2_3\" _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"][et_pb_text _builder_version=\"4.21.0\" _module_preset=\"default\" text_font_size=\"20px\" text_line_height=\"1.6em\" global_colors_info=\"{}\"]<\/p> For 25 years since he met Ch\u00e1vez, Padilla played an important role in the success of the UFW and the farmworker movement. 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