La revolución y la seguridad social (The revolution and social security)
Zapata, Mexican Revolution
Angel Bracho
El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico
ca. 1950
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La reacción contra el pueblo (The reaction against the people)
Angel Bracho
El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Mexico
ca. 1950
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Lazaro Cardenas and the Argarian
Reform 1934-40
Luis Arenal
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El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 3
United Farm Workers, newspaper, Mexican Revolution
This is the third copy of the United Farm Workers' newspaper. El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. The front cover of this edition shows the revolutionaries, including a female revolutionary, taking a break from the battle in song and unity. On the first page of this particular issue, there is a discussion of revolutionaries who fought in the Mexican Revolution. The United Farm Workers connected themselves to the history of these revolutionaries, describing themselves as the "sons of the Mexican Revolution" in the Plan of Delano, a plan which detailed the goals of la causa, or the cause. Although they utilize sexist language, leaving out the daughters of the Mexican Revolution, in this image we clearly see the female presence in the revolution, which should echo the female farmworkers fighting in la causa as well.
artist unknown
El Taller de Grafica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
1965
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El Malcriado, United Farm Workers
ink on paper
Spanish, English
El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 4, "Protesta de una madre contra la guerra (Protest of a mother against war)"
United Farm Workers, newspaper, El Malcriado
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. In issue number 4, the cover depicts a print from artist Andrea Gomez. The image was made in Mexico City, Mexico in 1952. This particular image and artist was chosen because she was a descendant from a famous revolutionary family, as described in the second page of this edition. Therefore, the artist, like several of the farmworkers, were descendants of the Mexican Revolution.
Andrea Gomez
El Taller de Grafica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
1965 (newspaper), 1952 (artwork)
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ink on paper
Spanish
El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 29
United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, Emiliano Zapata
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. This issue, number 29, shows the infamous Mexican Revolution general, Emiliano Zapata, on the cover. In this image, which is also utilized for the UFW posters, shows the leader as a hero, inspiring the UFW in their own revolution.
El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
February 12, 1966
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El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 35
United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, Francisco "Pancho" Villa
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. In its 35th issue, the newspaper places the image of another famed revolutionary leader, Francisco "Pancho" Villa. However, Zapata's image was used more frequently than Villa's due to Zapata's closer connection to the agrarian community.
El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
May 5, 1966
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English
El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 38, "Las Acordadas (The Remembered)"
United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, TGP
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. In this front cover of the 38th issue, El Malcriado utilized the print by Jesus Escobedo produced for El Taller de Gráfica Popular (TGP) in Mexico. Artists Leopoldo Mendez, Pablo O’Higgins, and Luis Arenal founded the TGP as a printing collective in Mexico in 1937. It was founded as a collective to “help the Mexican people defend and enrich their national culture” by producing art that “reflect[s] the social reality of the times.” Like the TGP, the UFW wanted to express their social reality as well. Therefore, this particular print expressed the suffering that the farmworkers were subjected to due to the maltreatment of the landowners.
Jesus Escobedo
El Taller de Gráfica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
June 16, 1966 (newspaper), date of artwork unknown
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El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 39, "Carrillo Puerto, Symbol of the Southeastern Revolution"
United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, Tierra Y Libertad
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. This print utilized on the 39th issue of El Malcriado, although does not depict Zapata himself, utilizes the common expression popularized by Zapata in the Mexican Revolution, "Tierra y Libertad," or Land and Liberty. Again, the TGP artwork helps express the UFW's own desires for land and liberty as farmworkers who work the land in the U.S.
Fernando Castro Pacheco
El Taller de Gráfica Popular print in El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
June 30, 1966, (date of artwork unknown)
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El Malcriado, Volume 1, Number 49, page 5
United Farm Workers, El Malcriado, Zapata and Villa
El Malcriado, “The Voice of the Farmworker," was a newspaper for the farmworker community in California’s Central Valley, an essential medium to communicate activities, concerns, and union updates for the United Farm Workers. It was provided to the union members free of charge, but also offered subscriptions and could be bought at local stores throughout the Central Valley in California. In the 49th issue of El Malcriado, a letter by Ramiro Mendez, a United Farm Worker, responded to a controversy due to the use of the images of Zapata and Villa. The UFW were accused in an issue of La Opinion, the largest Spanish-read newspaper in the United States, of “mocking” the “authentic Mexican” images of Zapata and Villa by using them in their cause. Mendez responded back by writing to La Opinion explaining that not only were they not mocking their images, but that the UFW had every right to utilize these images because much of the UFW was comprised of direct descendants of Mexican revolutionaries.
Letter by Ramiro Mendez
El Malcriado, UFW newspaper
El Taller Gráfico, Farmworker Press, Delano, California
April 18, 1966
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