“All my life, I have been driven by one dream, one goal, one vision: to overthrow a farm labor system in this nation that treats farm workers as if they were not important human beings. Farm workers are not agricultural implements; they are not beasts of burden to be used and discarded.” “It can be done!” César Estrada Chávez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) Cesar Chavez was an American civil rights leader. His birthday has become a holiday in eight U.S. states. It’s a holiday here in Denver (parking meters are free today, city offices, libraries, and the Denver Art Museaum are closed, the Zoo and Denver schools are open) but not in Colorado. Many parks, cultural centers, libraries, schools, and streets have been named in his honor in cities across the United States.
“If you don’t have anything to say, sing it,” said Hal Riney who died recently. Here’s an 8 minute clip of a talk he gave in 2002 about his ads, ads that had a big impact on not only how advertising is done, but even more importantly how we’ve thought about ourselves as Americans since 1965 when his first big ad ran for Crocker Bank. The sound quality is bad, but this is really worth watching:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?i=24173761&id=129062711
"I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University." Attributed to William F. Buckley (I can’t find the original source, does anyone know if WFB actually said this?)
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