López-Quezada: Experienced Author and Freelance Writer
The Author
López-Quezada is a freelance writer and political activist. In 1975 he was conferred a law degree by the University of California at Berkeley Law. From 1976 to 2003 he practiced labor, civil rights and personal injury law, this included serving as house counsel and general counsel for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO. From 1976 through 1981 he worked directly under Cesar E. Chávez. Subsequently, Marco moved on to fight civil rights cases at the US-Mexico border, among these was the 1985 federal case of Humberto Carrillo v. United States of America. Carrillo was the first use-of-deadly-force case successfully litigated against the US Border Patrol.
A number of his articles in the areas of civil and human rights have been published and presently, Marco's memoir “My March with César,” based on his involvement and working relationship with the California farm workers’ movement and its leader, César Chávez is to be co-published 1n 2022 by STUNAM the UNAM workers' union in Mexico City and distributed in 23 states in Mexico as well as in Latin America.
"If you are interested in learning about a person who never enriched himself but lived instead a life of voluntary poverty to free himself to organize and empower California farmworkers to demand they be treated as human beings and not as beasts of burden or a piece of farm equipment, then “My March With César” is the book you need to read. You will not be disappointed.” --LeRoy Chatfield (Author of "To Serve the People" University of New Mexico Press,2019)