Cesar Chavez, the Hispanic civil rights icon.
In Cesar Chavez biopic, Filipinos’ role in union ‘overlooked’ - Al Jazeera America
Filipino-Americans are protesting how laborers from their community are ignored in new historical movie
When Johnny Itliong, a 49-year-old chef in Ventura, Calif., watched the movie “Cesar Chavez,” he had to walk out on it. It confirmed his worst fears about the biopic of the charismatic union activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union.
Filipino labor leaders like his father, Larry Itliong, were either depicted as bystanders or ignored in the portrayal of Chavez, a Hispanic civil rights icon, and the long struggle to secure better working conditions for California laborers during the 1965 Delano grape strike and boycott.