Cesar Chavez

An American Hero Joins Lewis & Clark, Medgar Evers and Sacagawea

Maurice Jourdane | Posted 05.19.2012

Read More: Juan Garcia, Cesar Chavez, Farmworkers Struggle, Launching, Christening, Ufw, Lewis & Clark Series, United Farm Workers, USNS Cesar Chavez, Latino Voices News

Last week, on Cinco Mayo in San Diego's Barrio Logan, the United States Navy christened and launched the USNS Cesar Chavez over Republican opposition for naming the cargo ship after the civil rights leader and union activist.

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Cesar Chavez: LGBT Rights Activist?

Mike Spradley | Posted 05.03.2012

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Cesar Chavez Gay Rights, Cesar Chavez Lgbt Rights, USNS Cesar Chavez, Cesar Chavez Gays, Gay Voices News

Chavez believed that if any minority is oppressed, we all are oppressed. I found it amazing that Chavez ever included the LGBT community; I had previously envisioned him as a well-intentioned organizer of migrant farm workers, not the man he truly was.

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Happy Birthday, America Ferrera! (PHOTOS)

HuffingtonPost.com | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, People Magazine, The Good Wife, Ugly Betty, Betty Suarez, La Misma Luna, Birthday, Cesar Chavez, Video, Cultura, Real Women Have Curves, Career, Emmy, America Ferrera, The Dry Land, Chicago, Hillary Clinton, Slidepollajax, Latino Voices News

America Ferrera turns 28 today and we're celebrating her cumpleaños by taking a look at her amazing career. From her breakthrough movie role in the ...

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Rosario Dawson Nervous To Play Dolores Huerta

The Huffington Post | Andrea Long Chavez | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Rosario Dawson, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Video, Voto Latino, Cesar Chavez Film, Hispanic Heritage, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

For years, the family of Latino civil rights leader Cesar Chavez turned down producer’s efforts to create a film about his life. Now, the first biop...

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For Cesar Chavez Day, Can Pomona College Give Peace a Chance? Si, Se puede!

María Elena Durazo | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: United Farm Workers, Cesar Chavez Day, Undocumented Immigrants, Ufw, Afl-Cio, Immigration, Immigrants, Pomona College, Labor Unions, Cesar Chavez, Immigration Reform, Labor, Organizing, Union Organizing, Maria Elena Durazo, Unite Here, Unions, Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Latino Voices News

The fight for a union at Pomona's dining hall continues, and unfortunately, so does the Pomona Administration's opposition.

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Remembering Cesar Chavez: LULAC Carries On His Work

Margaret Moran | Posted 03.31.2012

Read More: Prosperity, Latino Voices News, Immigration Reform, Latino Politics, Cesar Chavez, Labor, Immigration, Cultura, Latino Voices News

Today, LULAC is spearheading initiatives that carry on the work began by Cesar Chavez. Along with labor and civil rights partners, we launched Movimiento Hispano, an initiative to register over 200,000 Hispanics to vote.

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PHOTOS: 9 Latinos Who Have Played Real People

The Huffington Post | Lee Hernandez | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Edgar Ramirez, Holiday, Cesar Chavez, Video, Cultura, Salma Hayek, Anthony Quinn, Jennifer Lopez, Javier Bardem, Hispanic Heritage, Michael Pena, Edward James Olmos, Slidepollajax, Benjamin Bratt, Joaquin Phoenix, Latino Voices News

It was recently reported that Mexican-American actor Michael Peña (“Crash,” “World Trade Center’) has been cast to play Civil Rights Leader, ...

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Farmworker Rogelio Lona Honored in Cesar Chavez's Memory

Voto Latino | Posted 03.30.2012

Read More: Farmworker, Rogelio Lona, White House, Cesar Chavez, Latino Voices News

Cesar's sincere efforts to remedy the situation he knew best are what turned him into the icon he is today. His efforts came from within

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Beyond Books: Tucson School District Tries to Block Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.29.2012

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Cesar Chavez, Latinos, Arizona, Tucson Unified School District, John Pedicone, Civil Rights, Education News

While schools across the country celebrate United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez's March 31st birthday, Tucson students reassigned from the recently outlawed Mexican American Studies program will also be forced to deliberately ignore Arizona's most famous native son.

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Uncovering the American Latino Story

Sec. Ken Salazar | Posted 04.10.2012

Read More: Hispanic Heritage, National Park Service, Cesar Chavez, American Latino Heritage, u.s. Secretary of the Interior, National Historic Landmark, Latino Voices News

The Department of the Interior has launched the American Latino Heritage Initiative to explore different pathways to better recognize the countless contributions Latinos have made.

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Tucson School Walk Outs Grow: Protest School District's Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment

Jeff Biggers | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Mexican American Studies, Doj, Tucson Arizona, Tucson, Sheriff Joe, John Huppenthal, Arizona, Racial Profiling, Arizona Gone Wild, Ethnic Studies, Cesar Chavez, Tea Party, Tom Horne, Protests, Schools, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Tucson Ethnic Studies, Education News

As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District's spiral into disarray, hundreds of students have walked out of their Tucson schools today in a coordinated protest against the banishment of the district's acclaimed Mexican American Studies program.

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LOOK: Latino Leaders Inspired By MLK, Civil Rights Movement

Posted 01.16.2012

Read More: United Farm Workers, Latinos, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Hispanic Activists, Latinos Inspired by Martin Luther King, Latino Voices News

The legacy and continued influence of Martin Luther King Jr. is undeniable, even if it has not yet fully been realized. As Latinos, we recognize th...

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Will 2012 Find America on the 'Right Side of History?'

Peter D. Rosenstein | Posted 01.11.2012

Read More: Latinos, Women, Cesar Chavez, Bella Abzug, LGBT Community, Enda, Martin Luther King Jr., Democratic Party, Republican Party, Politics News

With less that one year until the 2012 elections people who support full civil and human rights for all Americans will need to judge candidates and pa...

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With the Passing Of Activist Harry Pachon, A Look At Other Latino Pioneers

Posted 01.10.2012

Read More: Latino Rights Activist, Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Video, Antonio Villaraigosa, Maria Elena Durazo, Hispanic Heritage, Ruben Salazar, Raul Yzaguirre, Joan Baez, Bert Corona, Harry Pachon, Rita Moreno, Latino Voices News

Harry Pachon, an acclaimed activist-scholar who focused on the political and educational aspects of the country's growing Latino community, died of lu...

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Battleground North Carolina: Democratic Women Fired Up!

Michael Carmichael | Posted 12.23.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, David Koch, Tea Party, Chapel Hill, Richard Burr, Koch Brothers, Unc, Orange County Democratic Women, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, John Lewis, Hamilton, Molly Ivins, Harry Truman, Obama, Occupy Wall Street, Mecklenburg County NC, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Nino Scalia, Paul Wellstone, 2012, Republican, Battle of the South, Jefferson, Cesar Chavez, Bank of America, Gay Rights, Joan Dresser, Charlotte-North Carolina, Charlotte, Barbara Jordan, North Carolina, Palin-Bachmann, Abortion Rights, Citizens United, John Roberts, Wake County, Ellie Kinnaird, Tom Tillis, Donna Brazile, Jim Crow, Wall Street, Alice Bordsen, Charles Koch, North Carolina Democratic Women, Wake County School Board, Jimmy Carter, Gene Nichol, Renee Price, Lillian's List, David Price, Art Pope, Politics News

Recognizing that women's rights will take a devastating hit if Republicans return to power in 2012, Democratic women are rising to face the challenge.

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Arizona's Attorney General Says Ethnic/Mexican American Studies "Must Be Destroyed," Quoting Cato's Call for War

Jeff Biggers | Posted 11.12.2011

Read More: Ethnic Studies, Cesar Chavez, Mexican American Studies, Cleon Skausen, Adl, Tom Horne, Arizona, Tea Party, Glenn Beck, Education, Immigration, Education News

Speaking on a public panel in Phoenix on Saturday, Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne invoked the infamous words of warfare by Roman statesman Cato and called for the destruction of Tucson's Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program.

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The Farm Workers and Jerry Brown Make Up, For Now

William Bradley | Posted 11.07.2011

Read More: Darrell Steinberg, Cesar Chavez, California, Arturo Rodriguez, United Farm Workers, Jerry Brown, Farm Workers, Farm Workers Union, Ufw, California Politics, Unions, Workers Rights, Los Angeles News

The canny Brown negotiated new legislation that allows the UFW some progress without granting its card check goal, thus turning a rally that would otherwise have been a protest of his policies into a muted celebration.

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Richard Chavez -- One Hero Among Many

Maurice Jourdane | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Richard Chavez, United Farm Workers of America, Farm Workers Union, Farm Workers, Cesar Chavez, Richard Chavez Dead, Cortito, Workers Rights, Los Angeles News

While Cesar Chavez was becoming a Latino icon, many have not heard of Cesar's younger brother Richard. Silently, Richard helped farm workers across the nation stand tall.

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Our Ladder of Opportunity

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 10.10.2011

Read More: Latino Leaders, Latinos, Cesar Chavez, Education, Economic Crisis, Mexico, Labor Secretary, Nicaragua, Latina, LV Politics, Latino Prosperity, Latino Voices News

As the country's first Latina Labor Secretary, I appreciate both how far our community has come and how far we still have to go. Latinos come from a heritage of hard work, but our great work ethic will only flourish if we have the qualifications for job openings where we can apply it.

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Why I Got Arrested for Protesting Obama's Deportation Policy

Rep. Luis Gutierrez | Posted 10.02.2011

I am a strong supporter of President Obama. But the deportation policies Senator Obama once described as "terrorizing communities" have not changed significantly. I cannot sit quietly and wait.

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Why Did Jerry Brown Veto the Farm Worker Bill?

William Bradley | Posted 09.07.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, California, Antonio Villaraigosa, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Earl Warren, Barack Obama, Card Check, Afl-Cio, California Governor's Race, Art Pulaski, Gray Davis, Arturo Rodriguez, United Farm Workers, Jerry Brown, Dolores Huerta, Los Angeles News

In any real biography of Jerry Brown, the farm workers are not only a big chapter, they are shot through the entire story. Yet, he vetoed the bill.

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What Effect Will More Corporate Ads and Interrupted Programming Really Have on PBS?

Pearl Korn | Posted 08.07.2011

Read More: Pbs, United Farm Workers, Democracy Now!, David Koch, Michelle Rhee, Arturo Rodriguez, Pfizer, Bank of America, Monsanto, Cesar Chavez, Merrill Lynch, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Marian Wright Edelman, Affordable Care Act, PBS "Washington Week", Tea Party, Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Brookings Institution, Bill Moyers, Latinos, Robert Reich, Merck, Jose Serrano, Exxon Mobil, Amy Goodman, British Petroleum, Juan Gonzalez, Single Payer, Center for American Progress, Students First, Npr, Bill Moyers Journal, Fcc, Jim Lehrer, John Podesta, The News Hour With Jim Lehrer, New York Times, Archer Daniels Midland, Children's Defense Fund, Media News

At PBS's recent annual gathering it was announced that the number and frequency of promotions for corporate sponsors would increase during a few noted programs as an experiment.

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Celebrating Cesar Chavez Day In Los Angeles

Venice, CA Patch | 8:52am | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, La Around Town, Ufw, Cesar Chavez Day, Los Angeles News

Happy César Chávez Day. California state offices, including the Department of Motor Vehicles and Los Angeles Superior Courts, will be closed Thur...

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Arizona Unleashes Air Posse and Tank, As Nation Celebrates AZ Native Son Cesar Chavez Today

Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Operation Desert Sky, Border, President Obama, Arizona Gone Wild, Mexico, Robert Kennedy, Arizona, Jr, Tea Party, Joe Arpaio, Russell Pearce, Politics News

On the eve of Arizona's most famous native son's celebrated birthday, Joe Arpaio unveiled his latest media stunt, the war-time invoking Operation Desert Sky -- a 30-plane air posse of armed volunteers to track Mexican smugglers.

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Maine Gov. Orders Labor History Mural Taken Down

Talking Points Memo | Benjy Sarlin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cesar Chavez, Labor, Department of Labor, Laura Boyett, Frances Perkins, Governor Paul LePage, Progressive Groups, Pro-Labor, Maine, Anti-Labor, Rosie the Riveter, Business News

It's Diego Rivera Redux in Maine, as Governor Paul LePage is taking down a mural in the state Department of Labor building depicting the history of th...

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