Stephen Colbert in Congress (4/9): Carol Swain, Phil Glaize, Arturo Rodriguez (2010)

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By mid-1971 the Texas campaign was well underway. In Sept. 1971, Thomas John Wakely, recent discharge from the United States Air Force joined the San Antonio office of the Texas campaign. His pay was room and board, $ 5.00 a week plus all of the menudo he could eat. The menudo was provided to the UFOC staff by the families of migrant workers working the Texas fields.

TJ worked for UFOC for about 2 years and his responsibilities included organizing the Grape Boycott in San Antonio. His primary target was the H.E.B grocery store chain. In addition, he attempted to organize Hispanic farm workers working the farmers market in San Antonio — a institution at that time controlled by the corporate farms. Among his many organizing activities included at early 1972 episode where he and several other UFOC staff members who were attempting to organize warehouse workers in San Antonio were fired upon by security agents of the corporate farm owners.

In mid-1973 the San Antonio office of the UFOC was for taken over by the Brown Berets. This radicalization of the San Antonio UFOC office led to the eventual collapse of the San Antonio UFOC organizing campaign.

In July 2008 the farm worker Ramiro Carrillo Rodriguez, 48, died of a heat stroke. According to United Farm Workers he is "13th farm worker heat death since CA Governor Schwarzenegger took office" in 2003. In 2006 California's first permanent heat regulations were enacted but these regulations are not strictly enforced, the union says.

Carol M. Swain (born March 7, 1954) is currently Professor of Political Science and Professor of Law at Vanderbilt University and a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University.

Swain was born in Bedford, Virginia, one of twelve children. A high school dropout who married at sixteen, Swain went on to earn an A.A. in Business Merchandising from Virginia Western Community College in 1978, B.A. in criminal justice from Roanoke College in 1983, and an M.A. in political science from Virginia Tech in 1984. In 1989, Swain earned a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and in 2000 was awarded a M.S.L. from Yale Law School. Although raised as a Jehovah's Witness, she later became an Evangelical Christian.

Swain has received numerous awards and accolades. In 2007, she received the Distinguished Alumna Award from Virginia Tech. In 2006, Swain received a Booker T. Washington Legacy Award from the Heartland Institute. The James Madison Society, an International Community of Scholars, recognized her contributions in 2005. In 1994, Swain's book, Black Faces, Black Interests won the D.B. Hardeman prize given to the best scholarly work published on the U.S. Congress during a biennial period; the Woodrow Wilson prize given to "the best book published in the United States during the prior year on government, politics or international affairs"; and the V.O. Key Award given to "the best book published on southern politics".

Swain serves as a member of a number of boards and committees including the Planning Committee of the National Faculty Leadership Conference; Tennessee Advisory Committee to the U.S. Civil Rights Commission; National Endowment for the Humanities; Teen Challenge International; and Roanoke College Board of Trustees.

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