Showing posts with label Cesar Chavez Day. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Cesar Chavez Day. Show all posts

Friday, March 31, 2017

Friday is C�sar Ch�vez Day, but who was C�sar Ch�vez?

Take Action: Urge a Cesar Chavez National Day of ServiceCesar Chavez speaks at a United Farm Workers convention in 1992. Courtesy Jocelyn ShermanThe Spanish phraseS, se puedeYes, it can be donewas used as a rallying chant long before it was echoed in the streets of todays protests on civil, worker and immigrant rights.It was coined by a man named Csar Chvezduring a 1972 fast in which the Latino American farm worker rights...
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Friday, April 1, 2016

Annual Csar Chvez Day march ends in celebration

Take Action: Urge a Cesar Chavez National Day of ServiceOver a hundred people gathered at the Centro De Los Trabajadores Agrcolas Fronterizos (Border Farmworker Center) in Segundo Barrio on Thursday for a Csar Chvez Day march through Downtown El Paso.The march included a prayer service at Sacred Heart Church and ended at Armijo Park, where the crowd celebrated Csar Chvez day with live music and food.Over a hundred people...
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