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“Surprise and El Mirage migrant farm workers helped build many of the Northwest Valley’s community service organizations, some which are still going strong today. Surprise’s Clinica Adelante has grown from a farm workers’ health clinic into a community health institution.
“We picked lettuce, citrus, roses, onion, everything,” Rendon, 72, said. “But we had little support until the union came to help organize farm workers.”
She also credits the strikes of the late 1960s and 1970s with propelling a wave of local community action. “
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