The 2008 economic event called the Great Recession was cause…

The 2008 economic event called the Great Recession was caused by mortgage lenders approving risky mortgages to buyers with poor credit and widespread foreclosures of these homes led to a stock market crash in which many stocks lost half their value. Barak Obama will take office in 2009 with a $400 Billion stimulus package to kickstart the economy.

“We hate the agribusiness system that seeks to keep us ensla…

“We hate the agribusiness system that seeks to keep us enslaved and we shall overcome and change it not by retaliation or bloodshed but by a determined nonviolent struggle carried on by those masses of farm workers who intend to be free and human.”-Cesar Chavez, Excerpt from Letter from Delano, 1969Cesar Chavez and others were seeking better pay and treatment of migrant workers in America. This boycott was a large part of the Chicano Movement.