Synanon attracted a lot of money fools in the justice system kept sending addicts and dollars its way and soon investigators and lawsuits.

FORBES: Unions Tend Toward The Weird, As The Life Of Cesar Chavez Showed

His movement needed only one little defeat at the polls a California ballot initiative he wanted failed in 1976 for Chavez to decide that his organization needed shaking up, care of Synanon.

FORBES: Unions Tend Toward The Weird, As The Life Of Cesar Chavez Showed

Chavez essentially blew the latter half of the 1970s on these tangents, demanding UFW leadership to become an appendage of Synanon and work out deep thoughts about what it meant for people to live together in community.

FORBES: Unions Tend Toward The Weird, As The Life Of Cesar Chavez Showed