Caesar’s Last Fast
Director: Richard Ray Perez
Caesar’s Last Fast explores the private sacrifice and spiritual conviction behind Cesar Estrada Chavez’s fight for justice and dignity for America’s farm workers, which is linked to a new generation of organizers leading the charge for farm worker’s rights today.
Cesar’s Last Fast uncovers the private sacrifice and deep spiritual conviction behind Cesar E. Chavez’s 40-year struggle for America’s farmworkers. The film is built around never-before-seen footage of Cesar’s “Fast for Life,” an act of penance for not having done enough to stop growers from spraying pesticides on farmworkers. The story of this water-only fast is the film’s dramatic arc into which the filmmakers interweave the historic events that defined Cesar’s life mission, known among the members of the movement he led as, La Causa, “The Cause.” Then, by bridging Cesar’s 20th century struggle to the present-day reality the film appraises Cesar’s legacy by immersing us in the struggle of today’s farmworkers. Many of the same conditions that inspired Cesar to organize farmworkers still exist today. These conditions are compounded by the nation’s current economic uncertainty, our political leaders’ lack of will to champion social justice policy, and the insurmountable influence corporate America has on driving our nation’s political agenda.
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Cesar E. Chavez Foundation
http://www.chavezfoundation.org
National Farm Workers Service Center
http://www.nfwsc.org
California Rural Leal Assistance
http://www.crla.org/