Rooks urged students to call Driscoll Berry and express support for a neutrality agreement.

The second part of the UFW campaign, Rooks said, is to enlist the help of supermarket chains in pressuring Driscoll.

"The strategy is to provide a united front to the industry," she said.

Rooks noted that four out of seven national chains, including Kroger's, A&P and Safeway, are supporting the UFW.

"We're going to start focusing our efforts on Star Market," she added.

According to Rooks, May 9 has been designated as a national day of action and a rally will be held at a Boston Star Market.

Personal Involvement

At least one the meeting's attendees is a personal witness to the suffering of American farm workers.

Blanca C. Alcaraz '93, a graduate student in Romance Languages and Literature, grew up outside of Delano, Calif., a town which was the focal point of Caesar Chavez's strike.

"Sometimes it's more convenient not to think about what's going into your mouth and what it took to get there. You say, 'My eating this grape is not going to affect anyone," Alcaraz said.

"To this day, my family are farm workers," she said. "My mother is dying of cancer from being exposed to pesticides."

"It's absolutely ridiculous when next to my mom's house there's 30 migrant workers living in a house without electricity," she said.

Alcaraz also expressed her disappointment at the event's low attendance.

"To think of an institution like Har- vard which has the potential to make animpact...but if it starts at 15 it starts at 15,"she said. "That's what Caesar Chavez did."

Rooks was more optimistic.

"The students here have done a tremendousamount of work around farm-worker issueshistorically, and this year in particular," shesaid. "I have faith that Harvard will do the rightthing about farm-worker issues even though thegrape boycott was overturned."

The event was organized by Education for Action(E4A) as part of its Annual Action Week. Thisyear's theme is "International Solidarity;Transcending Borders."

"The point of Annual Action Week is to drawconnections between different issues," said E4Amember Katherine H. Gibson '99, who attended thestrawberry event. "We're drawing connectionsbetween peace in Ireland, farm workers andfeminism in the Arab world.