Martin Sheen leads grape protest at Mayfair market, 1988
Date Created and/or Issued
1988-08-19
Publication Information
Pepperdine University Libraries Malibu Historical Photograph Collection [digital resource], Pepperdine University Special Collections and University Archives
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Description
Inspired by Cesar Chavez' fast to protest pesticides, Martin Sheen leads a group of a dozen people to march from his home in Malibu to a Mayfair grocery market to protest the selling of table grapes processed with toxic pesticides. The press surrounds this boycott as protesters hold up signs saying "The Wrath of Grapes," "Deadly PESTICIDES," and "Stop Toxic Death." complete;
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