"We probably needed to take the battle to the street, much like the grape boycott," said Mr. McLaughlin, head of the city's labor council.

"The grape boycott scared the heck out of the farmers, all of us," said one major grower.

Brown also actively supported the farmworker organizing of Cesar Chavez and the mid-1960s grape boycott.

The script focuses primiarly on the grape boycotts and strikes of the 1960s and early 1970s.

It has become a litmus test of campus politics at Harvard University: did you support ending the grape boycott?

Most Americans do not realize that the United Farm Workers' 1984 grape boycott remains in force.

Then, there is the example of Cesar Chavez, the late farm workers leader who led a grape boycott in the 1970's.

When he died, he was leading another grape boycott to stop the use of pesticides.

Mr. Chavez organized a grape boycott in 1967.

Even the two supervisors who opposed the recent resolution are supporters of the union and its grape boycott.