Chavez film shows human side of farm worker movement

The new film, "Cesar Chavez: An American Hero," is the first to bring the story of the United Farm Workers and activist-farmworker Cesar Chavez to the American mainstream. But viewers proclaim that the film does not fall into the standard moral tale of good versus evil, but rather shows farm workers as complicated and flawed, like any real group of human beings.  "Discourse around farm workers by media, the general community, and even some farm worker advocates, often revolves around the idea of farm workers as victims. There is also a tendency to idolize farm workers."  Read the review in the Diary of Joaquín Magón, an ongoing essay series on immigration and farm workers, on Coachella Unincorporated.