Watsonville Cannery strike, 1985-1987

Scope and Contents A series of silkscreen posters produced and sold through the auspices of the Castroville local of the Teamsters Union to raise funds to support striking cannery workers during the Watsonville Strike of 1985-1987. Andrea Kantrowitz, a Philadelphia-based painter and printmaker, was active in the strike as well as in documenting other events in California's Latino community in the Eighties. Each print presents a portrait of a striking worker on the picket line of the Watsonville...