Like other farmworker leaders throughout the Nation. including Cesar Chavez of the United Farmworkers Organizing Committee. Juarez is devoted to nonviolence as the * only method of achieving selfdignity and the respect of others. OMICAOrganized Migrants in Com. munity Actionis the community organization that Juarez has developed in Florida with the assistance of hundreds of fellow workers and church and labor leads. It is concerning itself with helping migrants deal with State and Federal assistance agencies on issues such as housing. food programs. and health care. L It advises laborers on their work rights. it tries to resolve grievances. and. it at. tempts to overcome discriminatory prac- tices. OMICA is also organizing to obtain coverage for farmworkers that have for so long been excluded from basic social and worker benefit and protective legislation. I think this kind of community organization. in which migrants themselves are asserting themselves for the solution of their own problems should be encouraged. not discouraged. stimulated. not repressed. We must be aware that every day that we perpetuate the -second class citizenship of farmworkers. the greater the strain we place on the commitment to nonviolence to which the members of OMICA have dedicated themselves. Mr.
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