Cesar Chavez Day

Cesar Chavez Day To Be Celebrated At Bobby Vega Park

... the Conservation Corps in 2006 with his wife, Sandy Bonilla. Both passionately believed in the brilliant workforce program that created work-with-pay opportunities for inner-city kids who would most likely fall through the cracks. Sandy, Bobby’s widow, carries on his work as Urban Conservation Corps director. “We continue to work with young people from the Inland Empire, helping them to stay out of trouble and encouraging them to do something with their lives,” Sandy said. Under her guidance, the corps has expanded. “We have expanded our crews into the Angeles and Cleveland National Forests, as well as the San Bernardino National Forest,” Sandy said. “But San Bernardino has always been our home base.”. The corps also has expanded into the Coachella Valley. With about 100 young men and women, the conservation projects include clearing trails, planting trees and restoring habitat. Public lands win and young people win because of the values and work ethic instilled in them. According to Sandy, discipline is the key. “Any time you offer discipline, you have success,” she said. In the future, the group wants to partner with east Highland ...

2017 La Fe Children’s César Chávez Day March Set For Friday

... a good education, a dignified home, to fair wages in a safe workplace, and to quality, affordable health care,” said Centro de Salud Familiar La Fe CEO Salvador Balcorta. LFPS’ educators have been working closely with the school’s students to teach them about the important and groundbreaking contributions of activist heroes like César Chávez. “César would have been proud to see these little ones becoming tomorrow’s leaders. They are being taught and raised to be confident, educated, and proud voices of their community. Teaching our youth what it means to be a true activist and an informed voter is everyone’s responsibility,” Balcorta added. After the march, the LFPS’ students will release balloons in Chavez’ memory and take part in classroom activities that focus on Chávez’ life and legacy. The children’s march is part of the school’s observation of César Chávez and Social-Justice Month. The LFPS is a public, dual-language immersion charter school based in the heart of El Paso’s historic Segundo Barrio. The school offers its 260-Plus students, most of whom live in this low-income community, an arts, culture, and technology-based curriculum. What:  ...

Friday Is César Chávez Day, But Who Was César Chávez

... Cesar Foundation. César Chávez Street. In Austin, the street formerly known as First Street, which runs from Mo Pac to U. S. 183, was renamed in 1993 to honor the union organizer and Hispanic rights activist who died that year. Girard Kinney, an architect who helped create the Great Streets Master Plan in downtown Austin, remembers the resistance that came with the name change. Kinney said he was a strong supporter of bringing César Chávez Street to Austin. “There’s always been a valid opposition to renaming numbered streets,” he said. “If you say First and Congress, everyone knows intuitively what you’re talking about.”. Austin isn’t the only place to designate the activist’s name on a street sign. In Texas alone, roadways in San Antonio, Lubbock, San Juan, Houston, El Paso, Dallas and Edinburg have been renamed after César Chávez. Nationwide, streets in various California and Arizona cities and in St. Paul, Portland, Milwaukee, Salt Lake City, Kansas ...

Commemorate César Chávez Day With Action

... best scenario, range from $22,000 to $26,000 a year. And, in South Texas, the median is $18,000 a year, that, too, being unfortunately optimistic. Many farm workers are paid “off the books” or not actually paid what the books represent. Many receive less than the $7.25 federal minimum wage; and there is no time-and-half provision for more than 40 hours/week. Within Texas, some 200,000 farm workers migrate around the state during the year. They live in awful migrant housing or camps, often characterized by shacks in which an entire family must live in appalling sanitary conditions. Exposure to dangerous pesticides and herbicides is widespread. Sometimes, workers are charged for their housing or forced to live in local decrepit motel rooms at their expense. Only domestic workers earn less pay than the farm employees. Even though there are some federal laws protecting agricultural employees, they are haphazardly enforced; ...

Democratic Party Will Lead Cesar Chavez Day

... Democratic Party will again lead an energetic “Day of Service” in honor of the great Hispanic hero. Check out this story on __link__: __link__/2 non Zd H. Cancel Send. A link has been sent to your friend's email address. A link has been posted to your Facebook feed. Join the Conversation. To find out more about Facebook commenting please read the Conversation Guidelines and FAQs. Democratic Party will lead Cesar Chavez Day. Sun-News Reports. Published 1:19 p.m. MT March 27, 2017 | Updated 3:31 p.m. MT March 27, 2017. 6 CONNECT TWEET LINKEDIN COMMENTEMAILMORE. SILVER CITY — On Friday, March 31, Cesar Chavez Day, the Grant County Democratic Party will again lead an energetic “Day of Service” in honor of the great Hispanic hero. “We feel it’s crucial to remember the contributions of Cesar Chavez, ...

Sj Figures Past, Present And Future

... labor, sexual harassment of women workers, pesticide use and championed voter rights and registration as well as several other civil rights causes. Although some point to Chavez’s controversial sentiments against undocumented workers espoused earlier on in his career, it was due to his fear that employers would exploit undocumented workers by hiring them as "strike-breakers" to derail farm workers’ and unions’ organizing efforts. In his later years, Chavez committed to a pro-amnesty stance along with the UFW for their undocumented "brothers and sisters,” reflecting a broader shift of mentality among older generations of Chicano labor leaders at the time. A national monument celebrates this labor leader, civil rights activist and U. S. veteran; however, his commemorative day, which LMU recognizes, is not quite a federal holiday, only being recognized officially by 10 states. However, a petition by the Civil Rights Commission ...

Birthday Bash, Classes And César Chávez Day Events Set

... the Ojai Retreat, 160 Besant Road. Alexia Parks, founder of science-based 10 TRAITS Leadership Institute, will share secrets from the winner’s circle. The interactive workshop also will include a surprise musical guest. Tickets are $25. All proceeds will support BRAVO! — a musical education program for Ojai Valley elementary students. Space is limited. Tickets are available at the door or online at __link__/live-best-life-inside. For more information, call Therese Hartman at 798-2158. César Chávez Day to be celebrated. OXNARD - Several free community events are planned to mark César Chávez Day. The events will celebrate the life and accomplishments of the late civil rights activist. The main Oxnard Library will show the feature film “Common Man, Uncommon Vision: The César Chávez Story” at 1 p.m. Wednesday in Meeting ...

Chico Police Bolster Staffing For Possible Cesar Chavez Day Revelry

... Sunday and is focused on the downtown area and neighborhood south of Chico State University. Lt. Billy Aldridge said an extra team of officers — typically consisting of a sergeant and six officers — will be on duty each night. In the last several years, problems associated with the holiday, when students and other partygoers take advantage of the day off from school, have been minimal. “We’ve been getting lucky,” Aldridge said. “These events have been kind of quiet for the last couple of years. If we can continue that pattern we will not be upset about that.”. Aldridge said in years past the Police Department would staff several additional teams of officers for the anticipated revelry connected to the holiday. He said part of the reason for the decrease in criminal activity may have to do with the department’s “zero tolerance posture,” as well as ...

Hundreds Celebrate Legacy Of Cesar Chavez At Las Vegas Festival

... were able to create a movement and improve the lives of everybody who did what campesinos did.”. Torres said her return from Reno after graduation was a reflection of her favorite Cesar Chavez quote: “The end of all education should surely be service to others.”. “It’s this idea that when we’re done, we have to go back to our roots, because that’s where we came from,” Torres said. “By the time Cesar Chavez started this movement, he wasn’t a farm worker anymore. He went back to the fields.”. Contact Kimber Laux at __link__. Follow @lauxkimber on Twitter. ELECTED OFFICIALS REFLECT ON CESAR CHAVEZ. U. S. Rep. Ruben Kihuen, D-Nev., and North Las Vegas City Councilman Issac Barron attended Saturday's Cesar Chavez Day festival and spoke to the crowd about becoming politicians as Latinos. Barron, who teaches ...