California legislators announced the introduction of new legislation to designate March 31 as Farmworkers Day, replacing Cesar Chavez Day.
The announcement follows sexual abuse allegations against labor rights activist Cesar Chavez that came to light.
State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, D-Salinas, and Senate President Pro Tem Monique Limón, D-Santa Barbara, announced the legislation in a statement.
“This holiday will be a time for California to honor the past, reflect on the present, and renew our collective dedication to equity and justice for farmworkers,” read the statement, which did not mention Chavez.
The statement also said that legislators will work with local governments and school districts to modify laws and statutes as required.
State Sen. Dave Cortese, D-San Jose, who co-authored the legislation, also issued a news release in which he paid tribute to the survivors of Chavez’s alleged abuse.
“The Farmworker movement has always been bigger than any one individual,” Cortese said in the news release. “It was built by organizers, by families, and by women whose contributions and voices have been silenced for way too long and kept in the shadows. March 31st has always been about them, not just one individual. It’s time we recognize it as such.”
Don’t see a reason why not – works for me and recognizes more than one individual
You can tell when Dems have gotten messaging from the top on how to communicate things out because they all use the exact same wording. They can move pretty quickly when they want to erase their mistakes, can’t they?
I don’t know…. a head of semi brown Iceberg lettuce is about $4 at the big stores (getting old ’cause nobody is buying it) asparagus is $5 per pound, apples and oranges are… aww geez!
The point is it all costs so much I can’t get too appreciative about the few people who actually pick some of this stuff!
Machines do most of it nowadays.
Why don’t we have a Farm Machinery Holiday?
I actually found some really nice heads of iceberg lettuce at a Grocery Outlet store today for $1.29 each and I was pretty happy about that.
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I’d like to see all grocery stores print their cost on the price tags!
If they aren’t gouging us let ’em prove it!
Sure, they have overhead, employees to pay, refrigerators to maintain & outrageous PG&E bills just like we do.
So show us the mark up, if it’s accurate we will understand….. right now, all I understand is a head of lettuce at Grocery Outlet is $1.29 and a mile down the road at Raley’s it’s $3.99!
Something smells rotten at the grocery stores (and I’m not referring to all that discount tagged meat that nobody bought because it was too G-D overpriced and so it expired unsold!).
But I digress……
Just wait for it… Predictions of upcoming inflation are hovering about 6%, so you can bet grocery prices will double, yet again. $4 iceberg lettuce is nothing.
….. and some predictions are hovering around 4%. As you said, let’s just wait.
Sounds super dumb just like changing the name of the “Minute Men” to the Bears just a dumb hollow vurtue signal that means NOTHING. Keep as is no reason to change. It was named for his accomplishments and advancements for the laborer. The worker has labor day and that is more than enough recognition nobody deserves to be shamed nor elevated due to an umutable characteristic that the individual did nothing to achieve or bring on themselves!
So does this also mean that all schools, street names and anything else that has his name on it in CA will be changed as well? Or just a single day on the calendar.
Prepare to pay today to correct the ‘blind eye’ stupidity of yesterday.
They shouldn’t have it on the rapist/pedophiles birthday, make it another day. First day of spring?
Sounds definitely slanderous and defamatory without any proof! But that’s the narrative right demonize to get your way.
Too funny i saw this coming for several years. I thought it would be because he opposed illegal immigration. Had no clue about the other stuff. Is it true? He’s not alive to defend himself.
It is true. You should read the NYT article. The dagger is his co-founder, Dolores Huerta, says that he raped her as well and they had two kids together. Two kids were raised by other families members and Dolores ended up marrying his brother. She held that a secret to protect the movement. I guess everyone run for a political cover since the nyt released the piece.
@Paul
Sounds fishy? NYT is leftwing There are two sides to every story. He’s conveniently not here to defend himself.
Fishy!!! you can smell that stench clear over here on the west coast. BS salacious lies to smear someone that is dead and cannot speak for themselves. Though we put the Salem witch trials long behind us. if you have proof it should have been presented decades ago. This is nothing more than a stale fart in the wind!
Paul,
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The New York Times ruined their reputation on their own. You can’t blame people for not believing what they print, but that’s also now true for just about all print, radio, broadcast, cable, internet, and satellite news organizations.
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Delores Huerta never married Richard Chavez.
Will an apology be added to the bill, for what state legislature and unelected
paperclip minions did to farm workers when they “HELPED” them back in
1960s – 1970s ? ? ? ?
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As liberals “helped”, so they would feel good while getting free TV
face time, price of farm labor was forced up to the point automation
became cheaper than humans. Which actually jump started advances
in harvesting automation.
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Apple harvesting
https://tinyurl.com/yt5re2ft
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Lettuce harvesting
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxAaKpRMOTw
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Fruit Harvesting Machines
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHVA_FyXvPk
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democrats either didn’t learn from the past or they don’t care
and were fantasizing about future votes and campaign contributions
from unions, raising fast food worker wages. Using employer
dollars to do it. Result, approximately 20,000 worker lost their jobs,
others had their hours reduced. Businesses raised prices and some
reduced hours of operation.
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By all means politicians, take a victory lap while ignoring harm
you’ve continued to cause. Good thing so many Californians
have the memory of a fungus gnat.
Twenty bucks an hour is doing the same thing at the drive-thru. Be careful what you
ask for.demand~They should rename it for labor activist Nancy Chavez, heroine of the movie Mr. Majestyk.
Changr it to what it is “United Farmworkers Day”, funny but I remember that they basically lost so why honor them? AFL-CIO Day? But they have Larbor Day, oh well.
Good riddance to Chavez. I hope he’s rotting in hell with all the others just like him.
Wow sticking up for labor rights deserves a place in hell…just wow!!!
That’s not what Kentucky Derby said.
“Good riddance to Chavez. I hope he’s rotting in hell with all the others just like him.” is exactly what Kentucky Derby clearly said and Chavez was sticking up for labor rights, is it really that difficult to read!?! Not rocket science!!!
@bddp
I believe Kentucky Derby was referring to rapists. I also believe you knew that.
Chavez is rotting in Hell, but it’s not for sticking up for labor rights.
It’s for “sticking up” for something else.
Just a thought: Didn’t we spend the last 50 plus years leveling playing fields for everyone? What’s wrong with farm workers having the SAME Labor Day holiday as our factory workers, our coal miners, store clerks, and steel erectors — and so on? Or else, give the factory workers, coal miners, steel workers a paid Spring AND a Fall break too.
I’m serious.
If they are Migrant, visiting laborers, who arrived for the strawberries and will leave after grapes…take their money and go spend it outside the country? …Really? a holiday to start their ‘season’?
I remember when they renamed the Army Street exit Cesar Chavez Street – there wasn’t enough room on the sign, so they called it C Chavez Street. Are they going to name it back to Army Street?
I hope so.
But I hope nobody remembers my imperfections and erases my memory, too.
We all have imperfections, friends. Only the totalitarians would erase the good parts of us because of the bad parts.
It should be changed to National Engineer’s Day. Without engineers, we would have very little progress, including most things we accept as normal in our advanced society. We celebrate National Engineer’s Week in the week of President Washington’s birthday, as he was recognized as the first engineer in the United States. We should make his birthday a national holiday.
Hmm, is there a statue of him somewhere ?
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Would give democrat rabble something
to throw paint at and tear down.
This has nothing to do with politics, heads of lettuce, engineers, etc. Removing his name is respect for the victims, and renaming is respect for the farmworkers.
What victims he was never charged criminally with anything. Did you have any conversations with him where he admitted to you he committed crimes? The farmworkers deserve no more respect than any other working person in America and we have a day to observe their contribution it’s called Labor day that is far more than enough of a pat on the back for what millions of Americans do everyday and don’t demand recognition!
Same questions for Christopher Columbus. I didn’t get to talk to him 🙂 How about a vote for fast food workers day? LOL
We already have a day for fast food workers it’s called Labor Day and that is more than enough.
Lets jump ship and wreck his reputation over allegations… So funny how you clowns love to cancel people its the American way, Cancel culture aka Cancer culture
So…….. does anybody think anyone will ever get around to exposing the dirt on MLK?
Why who cares is anybody perfect? He made advancements in race relations that is why he is recognized who gives a crap if he slept around or like to dress up like a cat or whatever…