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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A una semana de que se dio a conocer la noticia de las \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">acusaciones de abuso sexual\u003c/a> contra César Chávez, los trabajadores agrícolas de California se enfrentaban a la difícil tarea de asimilar y conciliar los inquietantes detalles con la imagen de un ícono laboral y defensor de los derechos civiles a quien muchos consideraban un héroe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por teléfono, las personas describían sentirse atónitas tras enterarse de la noticia a través de la llamada de un vecino, conversaciones con familiares, reuniones de trabajo o las redes sociales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es casi imposible creer lo que está pasando”, dijo María García Hernández, trabajadora agrícola desde hace más de 30 años. Esta mujer de 52 años, que vive en el condado de Tulare, afirmó que tanto ella como sus padres se beneficiaron del activismo de Chávez, quien apoyó la última gran ley de reforma migratoria que se adoptó en la década de 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todavía no me lo puedo creer del todo, que una persona tan valiente que luchó por todos nosotros para garantizar que pudiéramos tener sombra, agua, baños limpios y mejores condiciones laborales, que una persona tan dedicada al pueblo… pudiera hacer algo así”, afirmó García, que se dedica a sembrar y cosechar plantas en un trabajo representado por el Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas (o UFW por sus siglas en inglés), el sindicato que Chávez y Dolores Huerta establecieron juntos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, que ahora tiene 95 años, reveló por primera vez públicamente que Chávez la manipuló para mantener relaciones sexuales con ella y la violó en la década de 1960, y declaró al \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> que ambos encuentros la dejaron embarazada. La investigación de varios años del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">publicada el 18 de marzo\u003c/a>, también detalla las acusaciones de dos mujeres, hijas de organizadores sindicales, que afirmaron que Chávez las abusó sexualmente cuando eran niñas en la década de 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuando Rolando Hernández se enteró por primera vez de las acusaciones a través de sus compañeros de trabajo durante una reunión de formación laboral, el extrabajador agrícola se quedó desconcertado. Pensó que la conversación debía de referirse a otra persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disculpen, pero ¿de qué César Chávez están hablando?”, preguntó Hernández, de 33 años, en la reunión. “Porque yo solo sé de un César Chávez que luchó por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas para que se les pagaran mejores salarios y hubiese menos injusticias en los campos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese mismo”, fue la respuesta, lo que dejó a Hernández sin palabras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue un golpe muy duro”, dijo Hernández, quien trabaja para organización sin fines de lucro para trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Fresno. Él comenzó a cosechar chiles en Arizona a los 14 años de edad antes de trabajar con viñedos y naranjales en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reacción a las revelaciones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">fue casi inmediata\u003c/a>. Los legisladores de California planean cambiar el nombre de la festividad estatal dedicada a Chávez por el de “Día de los Trabajadores Agrícolas”. Ciudades, estados y organizaciones, incluida la UFW, tomaron medidas para posponer o cancelar las celebraciones previstas para el 31 de marzo en honor al cumpleaños del líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense. Las autoridades están considerando \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">cambiar el nombre de calles\u003c/a>, parques, bibliotecas, escuelas y otros edificios que llevan el nombre de Chávez.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Durante décadas, la colaboración entre Chávez y Huerta para promover los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas se ha conmemorado en libros de texto infantiles, biografías, películas y desfiles. Ahora, varias madres, García entre ellas, se sienten por la falta de medidas para prevenir y responder a las presuntas agresiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo siento mucho por ellas. Lo que les ha pasado me duele en lo más profundo del alma” dijo García. “Si es verdad lo que pasó, ¿por qué no se habló hace mucho tiempo? ¿Por qué hasta ahora?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez falleció en 1993. Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, que ahora tiene 95 años, reveló por primera vez públicamente que Chávez la manipuló para mantener relaciones sexuales con ella y la violó en la década de 1960, y declaró al \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> que ambos encuentros la dejaron embarazada. La investigación de varios años del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">publicada el 18 de marzo\u003c/a>, también detalla las acusaciones de dos mujeres, hijas de organizadores sindicales, que afirmaron que Chávez las abusó sexualmente cuando eran niñas en la década de 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuando Rolando Hernández se enteró por primera vez de las acusaciones a través de sus compañeros de trabajo durante una reunión de formación laboral, el extrabajador agrícola se quedó desconcertado. Pensó que la conversación debía de referirse a otra persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disculpen, pero ¿de qué César Chávez están hablando?”, preguntó Hernández, de 33 años, en la reunión. “Porque yo solo sé de un César Chávez que luchó por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas para que se les pagaran mejores salarios y hubiese menos injusticias en los campos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese mismo”, fue la respuesta, lo que dejó a Hernández sin palabras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue un golpe muy duro”, dijo Hernández, quien trabaja para organización sin fines de lucro para trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Fresno. Él comenzó a cosechar chiles en Arizona a los 14 años de edad antes de trabajar con viñedos y naranjales en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reacción a las revelaciones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">fue casi inmediata\u003c/a>. Los legisladores de California planean cambiar el nombre de la festividad estatal dedicada a Chávez por el de “Día de los Trabajadores Agrícolas”. Ciudades, estados y organizaciones, incluida la UFW, tomaron medidas para posponer o cancelar las celebraciones previstas para el 31 de marzo en honor al cumpleaños del líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense. Las autoridades están considerando \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">cambiar el nombre de calles\u003c/a>, parques, bibliotecas, escuelas y otros edificios que llevan el nombre de Chávez.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durante décadas, la colaboración entre Chávez y Huerta para promover los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas se ha conmemorado en libros de texto infantiles, biografías, películas y desfiles. Ahora, varias madres, García entre ellas, se sienten por la falta de medidas para prevenir y responder a las presuntas agresiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo siento mucho por ellas. Lo que les ha pasado me duele en lo más profundo del alma” dijo García. “Si es verdad lo que pasó, ¿por qué no se habló hace mucho tiempo? ¿Por qué hasta ahora?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez falleció en 1993. Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones de \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076825/unspecified-allegations-prompt-cancellation-of-cesar-chavez-celebrations\">conducta sexual inapropiada\u003c/a> contra el ícono sindical \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">César Chávez\u003c/a> están causando una gran conmoción en California, donde el fundador del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas ha sido venerado durante décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones, que salieron a la luz en una investigación del periódico \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> publicada el 18 de marzo, acusan a Chávez de un patrón de conducta sexual inapropiada contra niñas y mujeres que trabajaron junto a él en el movimiento por los derechos civiles de los latinos en las décadas de 1960 y 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dos mujeres, ambas de 66 años en la actualidad, contaron \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">al periódico\u003c/a> que habían sido agredidas repetidamente por Chávez durante años en la década de 1970, cuando ellas tenían 12 y 13 años respectivamente, y él más de 40. La investigación también detalla las acusaciones formuladas contra Chávez por otras mujeres, entre ellas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, la cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés). Huerta reveló que Chávez la violó y la presionó para que mantuviera relaciones sexuales en dos ocasiones distintas en la década de 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La noticia ha suscitado una amplia reacción entre los líderes sindicales y políticos de toda el Área de Bahía, donde el nombre de Chávez figura en escuelas, calles y parques. Chávez inició su carrera como activista comunitario en San José e impulsó huelgas de campesinos por toda California, el primer estado en celebrar el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2000.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. La Fundación César Chávez también informó que había tenido conocimiento de “acusaciones alarmantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una estatua de César E. Chávez se alza mientras los miembros del comité conmemorativo del Valle de San Fernando celebran el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2021, en San Fernando, California. Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Como líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense, crecí con la historia del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas: sobre el sacrificio, la fe y la convicción de que los trabajadores merecen dignidad”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero permítanme ser claro: nuestro movimiento nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”, continuó. “Siempre ha girado en torno a los trabajadores filipinos, mexicanos, afroestadounidenses e inmigrantes, que se unen y exigen respeto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones ya anunciaron que cancelarán o evaluarán los actos previstos en honor a Chávez en San José, incluida una cena conmemorativa y varios eventos programados en el centro de acción comunitaria César E. Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. Los organizadores del desfile y festival anual del Día de César Chávez y Dolores Huerta de San Francisco anunciaron que el evento pasaría a llamarse sólo en honor a Huerta, cuyo cumpleaños es el 10 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Viva la causa! Apoya el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Eva Royale en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La investigación publicada la semana pasada incluye acusaciones de al menos una docena de mujeres que afirman haber sido \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">perseguidas, acosadas o agredidas\u003c/a> por Chávez cuando este se encontraba en la cima de su carrera, entre ellas Ana Murguía, quien declaró al\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> que fue convocada por primera vez a la oficina de Chávez cuando tenía 13 años y vivía con su familia en La Paz. Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. Las acciones de César no reflejan los valores de nuestra comunidad y nuestro movimiento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés) (conocida en inglés como UFW), con una bandera sindical en la que se lee “Viva La Causa”, hacia la década de 1970. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El día que se publicó la investigación, muchos en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco aún se estaban enterando de las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hingel dijo que recuerda cuando la calle César Chávez pasó a llamarse así en 1995, sustituyendo a la calle Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siempre lo consideré un pionero extraordinario”, declaró a KQED. “Me temo que estoy un poco desilusionado. He oído esta historia tantas veces sobre líderes carismáticos en el poder que abusan de las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es triste, y me lo creo”, dijo Sharon Garland. “Mi abuelo era campesino y abusó de mí cuando era niña… en aquella época no había muchas consecuencias y la gente no creía a las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Menjibar dijo que recordaba el bien que hizo Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para nosotros es un ídolo, alguien que lucha por todos los derechos”, dijo. “No puedo decir nada en su contra”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, presidente de la Comisión de servicios públicos de San Francisco, expresó su apoyo a Huerta.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']“Durante 60 años, llevó en silencio una dolorosa carga que sólo ella conocía, para que el movimiento que ayudó a construir y que ama profundamente pudiera continuar, sin saber hasta ahora que otras personas también habían sufrido daños”, escribió en una \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/josharcesf/posts/pfbid0CkDw4vRPd989iRGqj6KrzBjjpeoofF93PAxh7setcg8d7isyMVe4htfs8JzBzqNtl\">publicación en Facebook\u003c/a>. “Al romper ese silencio, Dolores habla no sólo por sí misma, sino por todas las mujeres y niñas que fueron heridas y obligadas a sufrir en soledad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>En un comunicado, el presidente de la Asamblea de California, Robert Rivas, afirmó que su principal prioridad es escuchar a las víctimas, y añadió que “el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es más grande que cualquier persona, y sus valores de dignidad y justicia son ahora más importantes que nunca”, escribió. “A quienes han encontrado el valor para dar un paso al frente, mi corazón está con ustedes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077341\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077341\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Alex-Padilla-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">El senador Alex Padilla participa en una rueda de prensa celebrada en San Francisco el 1 de junio de 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El senador Alex Padilla, quien el año pasado propuso una ley para crear un parque nacional en honor a Chávez que abarcaría partes de California y Arizona, dijo que las revelaciones son “relatos desgarradores y horribles de abusos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Debe haber tolerancia cero con el abuso, la explotación y el acallamiento de las víctimas, independientemente de quiénes sean los implicados”, afirmó en un comunicado. Afrontar verdades dolorosas y garantizar la rendición de cuentas es esencial para honrar los valores que defiende el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, valores arraigados en la dignidad y la justicia para todos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Padilla indicó que tiene previsto cambiar el nombre y reformular la legislación sobre el parque nacional para honrar a los trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los hijos de Chávez también expresaron su apoyo a las víctimas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestra familia está conmocionada y entristecida al conocer la noticia de que nuestro padre, César Chávez, cometió actos de conducta sexual inapropiada con mujeres y menores hace casi 50 años”, escribieron en un comunicado. “Como una familia comprometida con los valores de la equidad y la justicia, rendimos homenaje a las voces de quienes se sienten ignorados y dan a conocer los casos de abuso sexual”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto resulta muy doloroso para nuestra familia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. 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Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. 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Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. Los organizadores del desfile y festival anual del Día de César Chávez y Dolores Huerta de San Francisco anunciaron que el evento pasaría a llamarse sólo en honor a Huerta, cuyo cumpleaños es el 10 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Viva la causa! Apoya el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Eva Royale en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La investigación publicada la semana pasada incluye acusaciones de al menos una docena de mujeres que afirman haber sido \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">perseguidas, acosadas o agredidas\u003c/a> por Chávez cuando este se encontraba en la cima de su carrera, entre ellas Ana Murguía, quien declaró al\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> que fue convocada por primera vez a la oficina de Chávez cuando tenía 13 años y vivía con su familia en La Paz. Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. 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He oído esta historia tantas veces sobre líderes carismáticos en el poder que abusan de las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es triste, y me lo creo”, dijo Sharon Garland. “Mi abuelo era campesino y abusó de mí cuando era niña… en aquella época no había muchas consecuencias y la gente no creía a las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Menjibar dijo que recordaba el bien que hizo Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para nosotros es un ídolo, alguien que lucha por todos los derechos”, dijo. “No puedo decir nada en su contra”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, presidente de la Comisión de servicios públicos de San Francisco, expresó su apoyo a Huerta.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Raju said he intends to appeal and made clear outside the courthouse ahead of the hearing that even after being held in contempt, he has continued to turn away cases one day a week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our view is that his order is an illegal order,” Raju told reporters. “So one day a week, we have declined to take some of the cases.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The dispute has been ongoing since May 2025, when the public defender’s office first declared itself unavailable one day a week due to excessive caseloads. The 26 counts of contempt stem from refusals between January 12 and February 10, according to court documents. Raju said active misdemeanor cases have grown 78% and felony cases 56% since 2019 — and that each case now requires far more work than it once did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dorfman acknowledged receiving 45 letters from legal experts around the country urging him to reverse his contempt finding — and said he read them all but was not persuaded. He said he had concluded from earlier hearings that Raju’s office had available attorneys and that once he reached that finding, he was obligated to issue the order.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11996169\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11996169\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1207\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-800x503.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1020x641.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-160x101.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/Looking_West_from_UC_Hastings_City_Hall_and_CA_State_Courts_San_Francisco-1536x966.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Superior Court of California and San Francisco City Hall. \u003ccite>(Lisa Pickoff-White/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“And Mr. Raju, you have defied every order,” Dorfman said, ruling that each refusal constitutes a separate act of contempt.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kory DeClark, Raju’s attorney, argued the fines are the wrong tool for what is fundamentally a systemic funding problem. He told the judge the court “doesn’t have the contempt power to hold the [mayor’s office or district attorney],” and that imposing monetary sanctions on an office already starved of resources “will just make it worse.” If any sanction was warranted at all, DeClark said, it should be $1.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the courtroom, Deputy Public Defender Tal Klement, who has worked at the office since 2003, described working 50 to 60 hours a week on top of court time and going to physical therapy for shoulder pain while raising two children.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My excessive caseload impacts the quality of my representation,” Klement testified.[aside postID=news_12077372 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/005_KQED_630Sansome_02052020_1455_qed.jpg']Deputy Public Defender Seth Meisels, a 21-year veteran of the office, pointed to the sheer volume of digital evidence attorneys must now review in every case — body-worn camera footage, surveillance video, forensic records.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It has become increasingly difficult to determine which cases will go to trial,” he said. “But we still have to do the work.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Outside the courthouse before the hearing, public defenders from Contra Costa, Alameda, Sacramento, Sonoma, Santa Cruz and Yolo counties gathered in solidarity with Raju. San Joaquin County Public Defender Judyanne Vallado, whose office declared itself unavailable for homicide and sex offenses carrying potential life sentences last year, said the move ultimately helped clear the court’s docket — not just her office’s caseload.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Declaring unavailable isn’t just about helping the public defender’s office,” she said. “It’s helping the entire court justice system.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Public Defender Brendon Woods said he is considering taking the same steps as Raju if conditions in his office reach a breaking point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At some point in time, we have to say no,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raju said his office is in conversations with City Hall about a five-year plan to bring staffing closer to the standards set by a 2023 national workload study, which found the office needs 36 additional attorneys, along with more investigators, social workers and support staff.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He acknowledged the plan would still not bring the office to parity with the district attorney’s budget.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A coalition of South Bay leaders said the sexual abuse allegations against \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">late labor leader Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> should be a turning point for the community and the country.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The heads of several community organizations and elected leaders gathered in Mexican Heritage Plaza on Thursday afternoon in East San José’s Mayfair neighborhood — where Chavez himself once lived — calling for \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">believing and supporting survivors\u003c/a>, and for healing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For us here in East San José, this is personal. This is Cesar Chavez’s neighborhood. His legacy is reflected in our murals, in our public spaces and in our community memory,” said Jessica Paz-Cedillos, the CEO of the plaza.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That proximity makes this moment more painful, but also more important. Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, including several organizations that make up a group known as the Sí Se Puede Collective — which borrows the powerful organizing slogan originating with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077151/farmworker-activists-reflect-on-legacy-of-civil-rights-icon\">the farmworker movement\u003c/a> and Dolores Huerta — said communities must actively work to create spaces and cultures where no one is above accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign featuring an image of Cesar Chavez and information about his connection to Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José is seen leaning against a wall in an office at the plaza on March 19, 2026. The sign was removed from a memorial walkway this week after sexual abuse allegations were revealed against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment of responsibility,” said Adriana Caldera Boroffice, the CEO of YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley. “A responsibility to listen without defensiveness, to resist the instinct to protect reputations over people, to challenge the systems that have allowed harm to go unaddressed and to stand firmly on the side of those who have carried these truths for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez and helped lead and organize its many historic actions and protests, said Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, resulting in two pregnancies, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> published this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also contained allegations against Chavez from two women who said they were young teenagers when he sexually abused them over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, is seen during a community gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence in San José, said movements that shape history, like the farmworker movement, are not perfect and their leaders are not infallible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often told to choose between honoring a movement and confronting its flaws, but that is a false choice. We can do both. We can recognize the good that was done while refusing to excuse the harm that occurred. We can hold complexity without losing our moral clarity. In fact, this is how movements grow stronger,” Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the heart of this moment are women and families, people whose voices have too often been minimized and doubted. Their experiences are not footnotes in history; they are part of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077192 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, listens during a gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, said that the community must model what accountability looks like as a way to honor the courage of Huerta and other survivors, and to protect others who want to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that they can see, okay, if I do that, then what would happen? Well, the community will come to my side, will be there for me,” Chavez-Lopez said. “If they are harmed, there will be somebody there to support you through that, and you don’t have to go at it alone, and you don’t have to feel judged about it.”[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']The revelations have shattered the longstanding iconic image of Chavez around the nation, and have deep resonance in San José, where he lived for a time and where the movement he and Huerta led witnessed some of its first organizing actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican Heritage Plaza, a community gathering space with gardens, a theater, and a school of arts and culture, opened in 1999. The site of the plaza, at the intersection of South King Road and Alum Rock Avenue, once housed a Safeway where one of the earliest grocery store pickets took place during the UFW’s grape boycotts in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, until this week, a memorial walkway at the plaza featured a sign with a photo of Chavez and information about his connection to the site. Another corridor featured a deep blue painting, depicting a close-up image of Chavez’s eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday afternoon, the sign was taken down and leaned against a wall inside an administrative office. The painting was removed and replaced with an image depicting a hummingbird with flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Peter Ortiz said the council is planning to begin “a community-driven process to review public spaces, monuments, and sites, including Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San José,” that feature Chavez’s name or likeness, to consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks on March 19, 2026, about the city’s plans to review public spaces that bear the name or image of Cesar Chavez, in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will be an open and inclusive process, one that reflects our values and ensures we are not causing further harm to anyone,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home where Chavez once lived, about a mile from Mexican Heritage Plaza, was purchased in 2022 by the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe, which has used the space for community organizing meetings and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos, said the organization bought the home to preserve it as a part of East San José history and to lift up the legacy of Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077197 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe in San José, listens during a community gathering to respond to the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader Cesar Chavez on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a hero for all of us, from this very community, who rose to national and international status here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado said the organization has been holding open meetings to get input on how to develop the space for community use and has been fundraising to build out that reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some plans may need to change, and she said Amigos will ask for more input going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That house will remain the people’s house,” Maldonado said. “We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place of healing, a place of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The coalition, including several organizations that make up a group known as the Sí Se Puede Collective — which borrows the powerful organizing slogan originating with \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077151/farmworker-activists-reflect-on-legacy-of-civil-rights-icon\">the farmworker movement\u003c/a> and Dolores Huerta — said communities must actively work to create spaces and cultures where no one is above accountability.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077194\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077194\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-03_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign featuring an image of Cesar Chavez and information about his connection to Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José is seen leaning against a wall in an office at the plaza on March 19, 2026. The sign was removed from a memorial walkway this week after sexual abuse allegations were revealed against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This is a moment of responsibility,” said Adriana Caldera Boroffice, the CEO of YWCA Golden Gate Silicon Valley. “A responsibility to listen without defensiveness, to resist the instinct to protect reputations over people, to challenge the systems that have allowed harm to go unaddressed and to stand firmly on the side of those who have carried these truths for far too long.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Chavez and helped lead and organize its many historic actions and protests, said Chavez pressured her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, resulting in two pregnancies, according to a \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation\u003c/a> published this week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The report also contained allegations against Chavez from two women who said they were young teenagers when he sexually abused them over a period of years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077200 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-07_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence, is seen during a community gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Colsaria Henderson, executive director of Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence in San José, said movements that shape history, like the farmworker movement, are not perfect and their leaders are not infallible.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are often told to choose between honoring a movement and confronting its flaws, but that is a false choice. We can do both. We can recognize the good that was done while refusing to excuse the harm that occurred. We can hold complexity without losing our moral clarity. In fact, this is how movements grow stronger,” Henderson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At the heart of this moment are women and families, people whose voices have too often been minimized and doubted. Their experiences are not footnotes in history; they are part of it,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077192\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077192 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, listens during a gathering at Mexican Heritage Plaza in East San José on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Gabriela Chavez-Lopez, executive director of the Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley, said that the community must model what accountability looks like as a way to honor the courage of Huerta and other survivors, and to protect others who want to share their stories.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So that they can see, okay, if I do that, then what would happen? Well, the community will come to my side, will be there for me,” Chavez-Lopez said. “If they are harmed, there will be somebody there to support you through that, and you don’t have to go at it alone, and you don’t have to feel judged about it.”\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The revelations have shattered the longstanding iconic image of Chavez around the nation, and have deep resonance in San José, where he lived for a time and where the movement he and Huerta led witnessed some of its first organizing actions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican Heritage Plaza, a community gathering space with gardens, a theater, and a school of arts and culture, opened in 1999. The site of the plaza, at the intersection of South King Road and Alum Rock Avenue, once housed a Safeway where one of the earliest grocery store pickets took place during the UFW’s grape boycotts in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For years, until this week, a memorial walkway at the plaza featured a sign with a photo of Chavez and information about his connection to the site. Another corridor featured a deep blue painting, depicting a close-up image of Chavez’s eyes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By Thursday afternoon, the sign was taken down and leaned against a wall inside an administrative office. The painting was removed and replaced with an image depicting a hummingbird with flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City Councilmember Peter Ortiz said the council is planning to begin “a community-driven process to review public spaces, monuments, and sites, including Cesar Chavez Plaza in downtown San José,” that feature Chavez’s name or likeness, to consider changes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077196\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077196 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-04_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">District 5 San José City Councilmember Peter Ortiz speaks on March 19, 2026, about the city’s plans to review public spaces that bear the name or image of Cesar Chavez, in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“This will be an open and inclusive process, one that reflects our values and ensures we are not causing further harm to anyone,” Ortiz said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The home where Chavez once lived, about a mile from Mexican Heritage Plaza, was purchased in 2022 by the nonprofit Amigos de Guadalupe, which has used the space for community organizing meetings and mental health programs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos, said the organization bought the home to preserve it as a part of East San José history and to lift up the legacy of Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12077197 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CHAVEZSJ-KQED-05_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Maritza Maldonado, the executive director of Amigos de Guadalupe in San José, listens during a community gathering to respond to the sexual abuse allegations against the late labor leader Cesar Chavez on Thursday, March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a hero for all of us, from this very community, who rose to national and international status here,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maldonado said the organization has been holding open meetings to get input on how to develop the space for community use and has been fundraising to build out that reality.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some plans may need to change, and she said Amigos will ask for more input going forward.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That house will remain the people’s house,” Maldonado said. “We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place of healing, a place of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The 52-year-old, who lives in Tulare County, said she and her parents benefited from Chavez’s advocacy to include undocumented farmworkers in the last major comprehensive immigration reform in the 1980s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I still can’t quite believe it — that such a courageous person who fought for all of us to ensure we had shade, water, clean restrooms, better working conditions, that such a person, so dedicated to the people … could do that,” said García, who seeds and harvests plants in a job represented by the United Farm Workers, the union that Chavez and Dolores Huerta co-founded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, now 95, revealed for the first time publicly that Chavez manipulated her into sex and raped her in the 1960s, telling \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> that the two encounters each left her pregnant. \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times’\u003c/em> multi-year investigation, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">published Wednesday\u003c/a>, also detailed accusations by two women, daughters of union organizers, who said Chavez sexually abused them when they were children in the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076915\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076915\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker picks grapes at a field in Fresno on Sept. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>When Rolando Hernandez first heard about the allegations from coworkers during a job training meeting, the former agricultural worker was confused. 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Cities, states and organizations, including the UFW, moved to postpone or cancel celebrations planned for March 31 in honor of the Mexican American labor leader’s birthday. Officials are considering \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">renaming streets\u003c/a>, parks, libraries, schools and other buildings named after Chavez.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']For decades, Chavez and Huerta’s collaboration to advance farmworker rights has been celebrated in children’s textbooks, biographies, movies and parades. 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What has been revealed is very painful and deeply disturbing,” said Gallegos, her voice cracking. “We know firsthand that silence has never protected our farmworker communities, and no movement or justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse — not then and not now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076917\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076917\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Workers-2_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mandarin orchard west of Fresno, California, on March 21, 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She, like others who spoke with KQED hours after hearing the news, said they want this moment of reckoning to help prevent similar abuses in the future. 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"content": "\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a>‘s birthday in 1995, a crowd of hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Mission District to commemorate new street signs, installed along the 3-mile thoroughfare stretching from the Bayview waterfront to Noe Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City supervisors voted unanimously that year to change the name of Army Street to Cesar Chavez Street in honor of the labor leader, who had died two years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cesar Chavez lives in our hearts, and from now on he will live on this street,” Frank Martin Del Campo, a spokesperson for the local 790 United Public Employees, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/1231549583/?match=1&terms=cesar%20chavez%20street\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latino San Franciscans saw the dedication as an acknowledgment of the farmworker movement Chavez helped build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after allegations surfaced this week that the civil rights icon sexually abused multiple young girls, and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, as he led the movement in the 1960s and ’70s, politicians have quickly proposed stripping his name from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077014/california-weighs-renaming-parks-streets-after-cesar-chavez-amid-abuse-allegations\">dozens of streets, schools, parks and monuments\u003c/a>, and the state holiday in his honor at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations have raised questions about how to further the movement’s legacy, without Chavez as the figurehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-1536x1087.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ballot measure to strip Chavez’s name from the street failed by a wide margin in November 1995, as reported in the San Francisco Examiner, on Nov. 8, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a symbol,” San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said, “for a recognition of the farmworker movement, of the Chicano civil rights movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [is an] incredibly important social movement and incredibly important worker movement,” he said, adding that now, it will be important “to find a way of trying to recognize those things without using his name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reckoning with abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> published an investigation revealing accounts from two women, now in their 60s, who said that they had been assaulted repeatedly by Chavez for years in the 1970s, beginning when they were 12 and 13, and he was in his 40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta came forward with her own allegations that on two separate occasions in the 1960s, Chavez had pressured her into intercourse and later raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, local officials and organizations across California launched efforts to strip Chavez’s name from public view. Sacramento’s mayor appointed city council members to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorMcCarty/status/2034359028583960962\">rename \u003c/a>Cesar Chavez Plaza in the state capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University on June 24, 2005. \u003ccite>(Brian Trejo/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fresno officials set a meeting for this week to \u003ca href=\"https://fresno.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1402336&GUID=DEFF00CA-9492-4094-B66A-E64AB03FC28F&Options=info%7C&Search=\">remove\u003c/a> Cesar Chavez Boulevard street signs and groups at San Francisco State and Sonoma State University announced plans to shroud his image and name on campus murals and on buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón announced legislation that would rename the state holiday honoring Chavez at the end of March to Farmworkers Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment calls for honesty. It calls for reflection. And it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on,” Rivas said, speaking on the California Assembly floor on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco leaders haven’t taken any concrete steps to strip Chavez’s name from the street, or from the public elementary school renamed in his honor around the same time, it seems more than likely in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office will support community efforts to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from any District 9 institutions,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, which includes both sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there should be no hesitation,” said former Supervisor Susan Leal, who served from 1993 to 1997, and helped lead the renaming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A divisive renaming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leal said the decision to name Army Street after Chavez was meant to acknowledge “unrecognized work of a lot of farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meaning of having Cesar Chavez Street is that it signifies we have a place here too,” Maria Paya, a grocer in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-30-mn-62893-story.html\">told the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time the new street signs were unveiled that April, the decision had already sparked controversy, and a campaign to repeal the name change. Opponents put a citywide measure on that year’s general election ballot to restore the road’s name to Army Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1854px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1854\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg 1854w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1854px) 100vw, 1854px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opponents of the ballot measure to restore Cesar Chavez Street to Army Street celebrate with a caravan after it failed in 1995, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on Nov. 9, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The battle became one of the most divisive that election cycle, according to newspaper reports at the time\u003cem>,\u003c/em> pitting residents of the then-predominantly Latino Mission District, backed by thousands of United Farm Workers volunteers who traveled from as far as Bakersfield to campaign, against wealthy, majority white Noe Valley residents and small business owners who said they had an affinity for their addresses, and the 140-year-old Army Street name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming came at a time of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment, Leal said, not unlike today. The year prior, California voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045374/from-save-our-state-to-sanctuary-californias-immigration-views-have-shifted-dramatically\">Proposition 187\u003c/a>, which aimed to block undocumented immigrants from accessing most health care services, public education and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you would come up with another San Franciscan who was not of the farmworker movement, I think he might’ve gotten more support. It was not unlike Prop. 187,” Leal said.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']“It was very personal about him being Latino,” she said. “Some of the comments were, ‘He’s not even a citizen.’” Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city voted by a wide margin to uphold the new name that November, it was seen as an affirmation of support not just for Chavez, but for Latino San Franciscans, and the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more than him,” Leal said. “It was about Dolores. It was about, for a lot Latino people … pushing back,” against efforts like Proposition 187.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Francisco did launch an effort to rename Cesar Chavez Street, Leal said she’d hope to see that sentiment remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be named for something connected to that movement. Probably Dolores Huerta,” Leal told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans already in motion to scrub Chavez’s name from other public places are also taking similar considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworker movement was never ever about one man,” Rivas said Thursday. “It was built by tens of thousands of workers. People who labored in the fields. People who organized, who sacrificed, and who stood up when it was hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, we have a responsibility not just to remember that movement, but to carry it forward with integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latino San Franciscans saw the dedication as an acknowledgment of the farmworker movement Chavez helped build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after allegations surfaced this week that the civil rights icon sexually abused multiple young girls, and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, as he led the movement in the 1960s and ’70s, politicians have quickly proposed stripping his name from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077014/california-weighs-renaming-parks-streets-after-cesar-chavez-amid-abuse-allegations\">dozens of streets, schools, parks and monuments\u003c/a>, and the state holiday in his honor at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations have raised questions about how to further the movement’s legacy, without Chavez as the figurehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-1536x1087.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ballot measure to strip Chavez’s name from the street failed by a wide margin in November 1995, as reported in the San Francisco Examiner, on Nov. 8, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a symbol,” San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said, “for a recognition of the farmworker movement, of the Chicano civil rights movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [is an] incredibly important social movement and incredibly important worker movement,” he said, adding that now, it will be important “to find a way of trying to recognize those things without using his name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reckoning with abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> published an investigation revealing accounts from two women, now in their 60s, who said that they had been assaulted repeatedly by Chavez for years in the 1970s, beginning when they were 12 and 13, and he was in his 40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta came forward with her own allegations that on two separate occasions in the 1960s, Chavez had pressured her into intercourse and later raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, local officials and organizations across California launched efforts to strip Chavez’s name from public view. Sacramento’s mayor appointed city council members to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorMcCarty/status/2034359028583960962\">rename \u003c/a>Cesar Chavez Plaza in the state capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University on June 24, 2005. \u003ccite>(Brian Trejo/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fresno officials set a meeting for this week to \u003ca href=\"https://fresno.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1402336&GUID=DEFF00CA-9492-4094-B66A-E64AB03FC28F&Options=info%7C&Search=\">remove\u003c/a> Cesar Chavez Boulevard street signs and groups at San Francisco State and Sonoma State University announced plans to shroud his image and name on campus murals and on buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón announced legislation that would rename the state holiday honoring Chavez at the end of March to Farmworkers Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment calls for honesty. It calls for reflection. And it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on,” Rivas said, speaking on the California Assembly floor on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco leaders haven’t taken any concrete steps to strip Chavez’s name from the street, or from the public elementary school renamed in his honor around the same time, it seems more than likely in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office will support community efforts to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from any District 9 institutions,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, which includes both sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there should be no hesitation,” said former Supervisor Susan Leal, who served from 1993 to 1997, and helped lead the renaming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A divisive renaming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leal said the decision to name Army Street after Chavez was meant to acknowledge “unrecognized work of a lot of farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meaning of having Cesar Chavez Street is that it signifies we have a place here too,” Maria Paya, a grocer in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-30-mn-62893-story.html\">told the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time the new street signs were unveiled that April, the decision had already sparked controversy, and a campaign to repeal the name change. Opponents put a citywide measure on that year’s general election ballot to restore the road’s name to Army Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1854px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1854\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg 1854w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1854px) 100vw, 1854px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opponents of the ballot measure to restore Cesar Chavez Street to Army Street celebrate with a caravan after it failed in 1995, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on Nov. 9, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The battle became one of the most divisive that election cycle, according to newspaper reports at the time\u003cem>,\u003c/em> pitting residents of the then-predominantly Latino Mission District, backed by thousands of United Farm Workers volunteers who traveled from as far as Bakersfield to campaign, against wealthy, majority white Noe Valley residents and small business owners who said they had an affinity for their addresses, and the 140-year-old Army Street name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming came at a time of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment, Leal said, not unlike today. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Back when I was a student at San Francisco State, I used to walk by the Cesar Chavez Student Center almost every day. There’s also this mural above the entrance of the building of him carrying a torch. Chavez died in 1993, but he’s memorialized and honored on dozens of buildings, streets, murals, and even schools that celebrate his work as the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, which fought and won historic labor protections for farm workers. Growing up here, we learned that Cesar Chavez’s story is a California story, that it’s our history. Now California is reckoning with the more painful parts of Chavez’ legacy, after the New York Times published an investigation into allegations that Chavez sexually abused women and girls. Citing dozens of interviews, union records, emails, and photographs. Two women now in their 60s, Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas, say Chavez groomed and sexually abused them when they were children. Chavez’ prominent ally, Dolores Huerta, also says Chavez sexually assaulted her twice, but was discouraged from speaking out for years. Because of the stain it could leave on his legacy and the broader farm worker movement. Now Californians around the state say, it’s time to learn from this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luz Gallegos \u003c/strong>[00:01:49] Silence has never protected our farm worker communities. And we know that no movement for justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse, not then and not now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:02] Today we hear from organizers and farm workers about how the allegations against Cesar Chavez have rocked California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Paz-Cedillos \u003c/strong>[00:02:20] Good afternoon. My name is Jessica Paz-Cedillos. I am the CEO here at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. I wish we were gathering under different circumstances, but we’re not, and this is a heavy moment. First and foremost, we stand with survivors. We believe you. This moment forces us to hold two truths at once. The farm workers movement transformed lives. And at the same time, we are confronting firsthand accounts of harm that cannot be ignored or minimized. For us here in East San Jose, this is personal. This is Cesar Chavez’s neighborhood. That proximity makes this moment more painful, but also more important. Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it. We have to face it. Movements for justice are not immune from harm. And survivors should never have to choose between telling the truth and protecting a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] So Maritza, will you just say your first, last name, titles, and so we can hear how you sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:03:56] Maritza Maldonado, founder and executive director of Amigos Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment. So this hits very personal to me as a child who was raised in East San Jose, a proud, proud East Sider. Cesar Chavez was our hero. It’s who we looked up to. And so to read what we heard this week has been beyond devastating. Every book that I read about Cesar and a historian of the movement has been really hard. The women as a woman of color and the campesinas that endured, our hearts are with them and we stand firmly with them in solidarity and know that this movement will continue by the people here, that it was never about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] And Amigos de Guadalupe purchased Cesar Chavez’s, was his, the home he lived in for a portion of his youth. Am I correct? Not too far from here, right? Tell us about that home. Tell us why your organization bought that home and tell us what comes next with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] So obviously, it’s to lift up the Chavez legacy, right? It was important for me, for Amigos, to have that be part of the legacy of the San Jose. That said, that house will remain the people’s house. We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place for healing, a place for, a place of love. We are in deep, deep grief. Trust has been broken. But what I do know is “Si Se Puede” lives here every single day. The motto that Dolores Huerta said, “Si Se Puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] My name is Maria García Hernández.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I have been working in the fields for more than 30 years. 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I think this should have been brought up a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] Antes de este tema…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] I feel very sorry for them, truly, I was not there at the time, but if I was, if I had known, we could have done something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rolando Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Rolando Hernández,Yo creo que mucho de las veces…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] People keep quiet to protect the reputation of a leader. But I really think it’s something that you have to talk about. Because because otherwise, the root of the problem will always be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:44] We continue to fight so workers have better salaries. Because I truly believe that farm workers are still not valued enough for their work. They are still paid very unfairly. Maybe you get sick with something like diabetes, you’re dealing with all the stress of not getting paid enough, where you can’t even pay rent, the electricity bill, gas or even food. The cost of living keeps going up, but what workers are getting paid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] I am worried about how much we’ve gained. The innocent should not pay for what the sinners have done. In other words, those of us who are still alive and fighting should not have to pay for what that person did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luz Gallegos \u003c/strong>[00:09:51] I’m going through a lot of heaviness in my heart, a lot of pain. Hi, I’m Luz Gallegos with TODEC legal center. It’s a very challenging day today. It has been a very challenging, a very heavy day for myself. Definitely was caught by surprise by the news. 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Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it. We have to face it. Movements for justice are not immune from harm. And survivors should never have to choose between telling the truth and protecting a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] So Maritza, will you just say your first, last name, titles, and so we can hear how you sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:03:56] Maritza Maldonado, founder and executive director of Amigos Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment. So this hits very personal to me as a child who was raised in East San Jose, a proud, proud East Sider. Cesar Chavez was our hero. It’s who we looked up to. And so to read what we heard this week has been beyond devastating. Every book that I read about Cesar and a historian of the movement has been really hard. The women as a woman of color and the campesinas that endured, our hearts are with them and we stand firmly with them in solidarity and know that this movement will continue by the people here, that it was never about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] And Amigos de Guadalupe purchased Cesar Chavez’s, was his, the home he lived in for a portion of his youth. Am I correct? Not too far from here, right? Tell us about that home. Tell us why your organization bought that home and tell us what comes next with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] So obviously, it’s to lift up the Chavez legacy, right? It was important for me, for Amigos, to have that be part of the legacy of the San Jose. That said, that house will remain the people’s house. We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place for healing, a place for, a place of love. We are in deep, deep grief. Trust has been broken. But what I do know is “Si Se Puede” lives here every single day. The motto that Dolores Huerta said, “Si Se Puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] My name is Maria García Hernández.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I have been working in the fields for more than 30 years. I have worked on the entire grape harvest, from the clearing, the weeding, and the pruning of the grapevines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] Yo estoy todavía de no creerlo porque…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:35] I still don’t believe it because such a courageous person who fought for all of us, for everything we have, because if this person hadn’t fought, if Cesar Chavez hadn’t fight to give us so much protection, to give a shade, water, clean bathrooms, better working conditions, better salaries, a person so dedicated to people, so humane, it’s hard to believe what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Es dificil creer…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] I also know Mrs. Dolores Huerta. My respects to her as well. I highly value her because we have had the opportunity to accompany her at events that she has also done to support us, so I am also super grateful to her too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] Es demasiado…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] This is too much. If it’s true what happened, why wasn’t it talked about long ago? Why now? Mr. Cesar Chavez, may he rest in peace, has been dead already for many years. I think this should have been brought up a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] Antes de este tema…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] I feel very sorry for them, truly, I was not there at the time, but if I was, if I had known, we could have done something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rolando Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Rolando Hernández,Yo creo que mucho de las veces…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] People keep quiet to protect the reputation of a leader. But I really think it’s something that you have to talk about. Because because otherwise, the root of the problem will always be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:44] We continue to fight so workers have better salaries. Because I truly believe that farm workers are still not valued enough for their work. They are still paid very unfairly. Maybe you get sick with something like diabetes, you’re dealing with all the stress of not getting paid enough, where you can’t even pay rent, the electricity bill, gas or even food. The cost of living keeps going up, but what workers are getting paid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] I am worried about how much we’ve gained. The innocent should not pay for what the sinners have done. In other words, those of us who are still alive and fighting should not have to pay for what that person did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">\u003cem>Leer en español\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sexual \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076825/unspecified-allegations-prompt-cancellation-of-cesar-chavez-celebrations\">misconduct allegations\u003c/a> against labor icon \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> this week are sending shockwaves through California, where the farmworker movement founder has been revered for decades.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The allegations, which came to light in an investigation by \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> published Wednesday, accuse Chavez of a pattern of sexual misconduct against young girls and women who worked alongside him in the Latino civil rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two women, who are both now 66, told \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times\u003c/em> that they had been assaulted repeatedly by Chavez for years in the 1970s, when they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">12 and 13,\u003c/a> and he was in his 40s. The investigation also detailed allegations made against Chavez by several other women, including the labor leader’s close ally and United Farm Workers co-founder \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who said Chavez raped her and pressured her into intercourse on two separate occasions in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news has already garnered wide response from labor and elected leaders across the Bay Area, where Chavez’s name is plastered on schools, streets and parks. California, where Chavez began his career as a community organizer in San José and spent years building UFW in La Paz, north of Los Angeles, was the first to recognize Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry. I’m shaken. And I’m thinking about what this moment demands of us,” Rudy Gonzalez, a member of the San Francisco Labor Council’s executive committee, said in a statement on Tuesday, as whispers of the allegations began to swirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>’ investigation was published, the UFW Foundation announced that it would cancel all activities planned in celebration of Cesar Chavez Day, on March 31, in light of “allegations about abusive behavior.” The Cesar Chavez Foundation also said it had become aware of “disturbing allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Cesar E. Chavez stands as members of the San Fernando Valley commemorative committee celebrate Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, 2021, in San Fernando, California. Chavez was known for employing nonviolent means to seek better working conditions for thousands of farm workers who suffered low wages and severe working conditions. In 1962, he founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Mexican American labor leader, I was raised on the story of the farm worker movement — on sacrifice, on faith, on the belief that working people deserve dignity,” Gonzalez said in his statement. “But let me be clear: our movement has never been about one man,” he continued. “It has always been about workers — Filipino, Mexican, Black, immigrants standing together and demanding respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, organizations have announced that they will cancel or reevaluate events planned in honor of Chavez in San José, including a legacy dinner and programming by San José State University’s Cesar E. Chavez Community Action Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan said the city was cancelling all planned events associated with the state holiday and would “identify ways to honor the legacy of the farmworker movement without celebrating individuals who caused such profound harm to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that Chavez’s ties to San José come with a responsibility to ensure we are not further traumatizing survivors,” he said in a statement.[aside postID=news_12054936 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/20250903_FARMLABORCRISIS_GC-18-KQED.jpg']Contra Costa County also said it was “reviewing the details” of its annual celebration planned for next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following the lead of the United Farm Workers, Contra Costa County remains focused on supporting farmworkers and advancing equity, safety, and opportunity in agriculture,” spokesperson Kristi Jourdan said via email. “Our goal is to ensure this event honors farmworkers, highlights urgent issues like fair wages and safe working conditions, and reflects our shared values of dignity and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Hispanic Caucus said it would honor farmworkers and their “arduous, essential work” on March 31, nationally recognized as Cesar Chavez Day, this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot celebrate a man, regardless of his accomplishments, if he harmed women and children in such vile ways,” the caucus said in a statement. “While it’s heartbreaking when leaders are exposed as flawed beyond absolution, a just society has a duty to hold abusers accountable without exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A movement stands on its values, not the misconduct of an individual,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of San Francisco’s annual Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Day Parade and Festival said the event would be renamed solely in honor of Huerta, whose birthday is April 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Viva La Causa! Support the [farmworker] Movement,” Eva Royale said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation published Wednesday morning includes accusations from at least a dozen women who say they were either \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">pursued, harassed or assaulted\u003c/a> by Chavez while he was at the height of his career, including Ana Murguia, who told \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> that she was first summoned to Chavez’s office when she was 13 years old, living with her family at La Paz. She said over the next four years, she had dozens of sexual encounters with him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076914\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076914\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/20250903_FarmLaborCrisis_GC-7_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A farmworker picks grapes at a field in Fresno on Sept. 3, 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas told \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times \u003c/em>she was 12 when Chavez first touched her inappropriately, and that when she was 15, he raped her at a motel during the United Farm Workers’ 1,000 Mile March in California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, Chavez’s UFW co-founder and close ally in leading the Farmworkers’ Movement, said in a \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">statement on Wednesday\u003c/a> that she had two nonconsensual sexual encounters with Chavez in the 1960s, both resulting in pregnancies that she hid from public view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta said that she had not spoken out about her experiences for the last 60 years, because she “believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I am telling my story because \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> has indicated that I was not the only one — there were others,” she wrote in a statement on Wednesday. “The knowledge that he hurt young girls sickens me. My heart aches for everyone who suffered alone and in silence for years. There are no words strong enough to condemn those deplorable actions that he did. Cesar’s actions do not reflect the values of our community and our movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12044395\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12044395\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In San Francisco’s Mission District Wednesday afternoon, many were still learning of the allegations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hingel said he remembers when nearby Cesar Chavez Street was renamed in 1995, from Army Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I always thought of him as an amazing trailblazer,” he told KQED. “I’m afraid I’m a bit jaded. I’ve heard the story so many times from charismatic leaders in power and abusing women.”[aside postID=news_12054312 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/Untitled-design.jpg']“It’s sad, and I can believe it,” Sharon Garland said. “My grandfather was a farmer, and I was assaulted by him as a child … There weren’t many consequences back then and people didn’t believe women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Menjibar said she remembered the good Chavez did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is, for us, an idol, somebody who fights for all rights,” she said. “I can’t say anything against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, the president of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, expressed support for Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 60 years, she carried a painful burden in silence, known only to her, so that the movement she helped build and loves deeply could continue — never knowing until now that others, too, had suffered harm,” he wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/josharcesf/posts/pfbid0CkDw4vRPd989iRGqj6KrzBjjpeoofF93PAxh7setcg8d7isyMVe4htfs8JzBzqNtl\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. “By breaking that silence, Dolores is speaking not only for herself, but for every woman and girl who was hurt and made to suffer alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said his first priority was to listen to survivors, adding that “the farmworker movement has never been about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is bigger than any one person, and its values of dignity and justice are more important now than ever,” he wrote. “To those who have found the courage to come forward, my heart is with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. 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Alex Padilla, who last year proposed legislation to create a national park honoring Chavez across California and Arizona, called the revelations “heartbreaking, horrific accounts of abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There must be zero tolerance for abuse, exploitation, and the silencing of victims, no matter who is involved,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. “Confronting painful truths and ensuring accountability is essential to honoring the very values the greater farm worker movement stands for — values rooted in dignity and justice for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s office said he plans to rename and rework the legislation for the national park to honor farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez’s children also expressed support for survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our family is shocked and saddened to learn of news that our father, Cesar Chavez, engaged in sexual impropriety with women and minors nearly 50 years ago,” they wrote in a statement. “As a family steeped in the values of equity and justice, we honor the voices of those who feel unheard and who report sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is deeply painful to our family. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The news has already garnered wide response from labor and elected leaders across the Bay Area, where Chavez’s name is plastered on schools, streets and parks. California, where Chavez began his career as a community organizer in San José and spent years building UFW in La Paz, north of Los Angeles, was the first to recognize Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, 2000.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m angry. I’m shaken. And I’m thinking about what this moment demands of us,” Rudy Gonzalez, a member of the San Francisco Labor Council’s executive committee, said in a statement on Tuesday, as whispers of the allegations began to swirl.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The day before \u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>Times\u003c/em>’ investigation was published, the UFW Foundation announced that it would cancel all activities planned in celebration of Cesar Chavez Day, on March 31, in light of “allegations about abusive behavior.” The Cesar Chavez Foundation also said it had become aware of “disturbing allegations.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076934\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076934\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A statue of Cesar E. Chavez stands as members of the San Fernando Valley commemorative committee celebrate Cesar Chavez Day on March 31, 2021, in San Fernando, California. Chavez was known for employing nonviolent means to seek better working conditions for thousands of farm workers who suffered low wages and severe working conditions. In 1962, he founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW) union. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Mexican American labor leader, I was raised on the story of the farm worker movement — on sacrifice, on faith, on the belief that working people deserve dignity,” Gonzalez said in his statement. “But let me be clear: our movement has never been about one man,” he continued. “It has always been about workers — Filipino, Mexican, Black, immigrants standing together and demanding respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Already, organizations have announced that they will cancel or reevaluate events planned in honor of Chavez in San José, including a legacy dinner and programming by San José State University’s Cesar E. Chavez Community Action Center.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mayor Matt Mahan said the city was cancelling all planned events associated with the state holiday and would “identify ways to honor the legacy of the farmworker movement without celebrating individuals who caused such profound harm to the community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We recognize that Chavez’s ties to San José come with a responsibility to ensure we are not further traumatizing survivors,” he said in a statement.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Contra Costa County also said it was “reviewing the details” of its annual celebration planned for next month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Following the lead of the United Farm Workers, Contra Costa County remains focused on supporting farmworkers and advancing equity, safety, and opportunity in agriculture,” spokesperson Kristi Jourdan said via email. “Our goal is to ensure this event honors farmworkers, highlights urgent issues like fair wages and safe working conditions, and reflects our shared values of dignity and inclusion.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Congressional Hispanic Caucus said it would honor farmworkers and their “arduous, essential work” on March 31, nationally recognized as Cesar Chavez Day, this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We cannot celebrate a man, regardless of his accomplishments, if he harmed women and children in such vile ways,” the caucus said in a statement. “While it’s heartbreaking when leaders are exposed as flawed beyond absolution, a just society has a duty to hold abusers accountable without exception.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A movement stands on its values, not the misconduct of an individual,” it continued.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Organizers of San Francisco’s annual Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta Day Parade and Festival said the event would be renamed solely in honor of Huerta, whose birthday is April 10.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Viva La Causa! Support the [farmworker] Movement,” Eva Royale said in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The investigation published Wednesday morning includes accusations from at least a dozen women who say they were either \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">pursued, harassed or assaulted\u003c/a> by Chavez while he was at the height of his career, including Ana Murguia, who told \u003cem>The Times\u003c/em> that she was first summoned to Chavez’s office when she was 13 years old, living with her family at La Paz. 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My heart aches for everyone who suffered alone and in silence for years. There are no words strong enough to condemn those deplorable actions that he did. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>“It’s sad, and I can believe it,” Sharon Garland said. “My grandfather was a farmer, and I was assaulted by him as a child … There weren’t many consequences back then and people didn’t believe women.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Maria Menjibar said she remembered the good Chavez did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He is, for us, an idol, somebody who fights for all rights,” she said. “I can’t say anything against him.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, the president of the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, expressed support for Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For 60 years, she carried a painful burden in silence, known only to her, so that the movement she helped build and loves deeply could continue — never knowing until now that others, too, had suffered harm,” he wrote in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/josharcesf/posts/pfbid0CkDw4vRPd989iRGqj6KrzBjjpeoofF93PAxh7setcg8d7isyMVe4htfs8JzBzqNtl\">post on Facebook\u003c/a>. “By breaking that silence, Dolores is speaking not only for herself, but for every woman and girl who was hurt and made to suffer alone.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a statement, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas said his first priority was to listen to survivors, adding that “the farmworker movement has never been about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is bigger than any one person, and its values of dignity and justice are more important now than ever,” he wrote. “To those who have found the courage to come forward, my heart is with you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12034002\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12034002\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/04/034_SanFrancisco_AlexPadillaMissionKids_06012021_qed-1-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sen. Alex Padilla speaks at a press briefing in San Francisco on June 1, 2021. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Sen. Alex Padilla, who last year proposed legislation to create a national park honoring Chavez across California and Arizona, called the revelations “heartbreaking, horrific accounts of abuse.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There must be zero tolerance for abuse, exploitation, and the silencing of victims, no matter who is involved,” he said in a statement on Wednesday. “Confronting painful truths and ensuring accountability is essential to honoring the very values the greater farm worker movement stands for — values rooted in dignity and justice for all.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Padilla’s office said he plans to rename and rework the legislation for the national park to honor farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chavez’s children also expressed support for survivors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Our family is shocked and saddened to learn of news that our father, Cesar Chavez, engaged in sexual impropriety with women and minors nearly 50 years ago,” they wrote in a statement. “As a family steeped in the values of equity and justice, we honor the voices of those who feel unheard and who report sexual abuse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is deeply painful to our family. We hope these matters are approached thoughtfully and fairly,” the statement reads.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Up to 2,400 mental health professionals at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> in Northern California are set to hold a one-day strike on Wednesday over what they warn is the company’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of patient care and, potentially, of their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/kaiser-nurses-to-hold-24-hour-sympathy-strike-in-solidarity-with-kaiser-mental-health-workers\">nurses\u003c/a>, as well as hospital and facility maintenance professionals, announced they will join picket lines in support of the therapists, including psychologists and social workers, in the Bay Area, Central Valley and Sacramento regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During monthslong labor contract negotiations, Kaiser has proposed making it easier to lay off therapists and has resisted language stating that the company won’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999553/will-ai-replace-your-therapist-kaiser-wont-say-no\">use AI to replace them\u003c/a>, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents the striking mental health employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really sad that this is how they are choosing to behave,” said Leemore Federman, a Kaiser therapist in San Leandro who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety and is part of the union’s bargaining team. “If Kaiser wanted to, they have abundant resources to make the mental health department at Kaiser the best, and instead they’re doing everything to make it the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-based health care giant, which has been under pressure to improve timely access to mental health and substance use disorder services, denies that AI makes any medical or care decisions or is being used to replace therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said it has invested nearly $2 billion since 2020 to expand mental health facilities, hire and train clinicians, and grow its provider network so its more than 9 million California health plan enrollees can get care faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are growing our workforce, not shrinking it, and our commitment to building a pipeline of trained therapists is unquestionable,” the company said in a statement. “We see technology — and AI, in particular — as a way to support our clinicians in managing their practice and provide them with tools that facilitate greater access to care and connection with patients — all to achieve the best possible outcomes for our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe AI can be helpful when it supports clinicians — by reducing administrative work or improving efficiency — but it does not replace clinical judgment or human assessment,” Kaiser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the AI boom advances with few guardrails, workers in health care and other industries are feeling anxiety about how their employers may use the technology, said Adam Horwitz, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, health care companies have introduced AI tools mostly for administrative support tasks, such as note-taking during appointments or patient scheduling, rather than direct patient care. But company decisions to roll out the technology are often happening at high-level meetings behind closed doors without much worker input, which fuels mistrust, he said.[aside postID=news_12072837 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/02/020926_KAISERSTRIKE_8137B-KQED.jpg']“It’s connected to the broader anxiety that we just don’t know where all this is going,” said Horwitz, who studies how digital technologies, including AI, can improve access to care. “Across industries, there’s a lot of like, ‘Well, wait a minute, having these AI things definitely makes money for people at the top at the expense of workers doing the jobs. Why are we all getting in line to just try to keep propelling this forward without having a thoughtful approach to it?’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday morning, therapists walked off their jobs and headed to picket lines outside Kaiser facilities in Oakland, Sacramento, Santa Rosa, Santa Clara and Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Harimandir Khalsa, 55, said her team of clinicians who screen patients seeking mental health services in the Walnut Creek area has been reduced by two-thirds. Instead, Kaiser is increasingly using telephone operators and online surveys or questionnaires that use AI to screen patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen firsthand patients who were screened by a telephone service operator and sent to an external referral network. In some cases, they were self-harming … they should never have been sent out, they should have talked to a clinician to assess risk, to come up with safety planning and get them a more urgent appointment,” Khalsa told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest walkout comes about a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074265/widespread-kaiser-strike-to-end-after-4-weeks-with-no-deal-yet\">end of a four-week strike\u003c/a> that initially involved up to 31,000 nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, optometrists and other health care employees in California and Hawaii. Those workers are currently voting on whether to ratify tentative agreements the union said included wage increases, as well as staffing and AI protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, therapists at Kaiser represented by the same union \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923034/were-drowning-why-kaiser-mental-health-workers-are-striking\">went on strike for 10 weeks\u003c/a>, over concerns about patient care delays, workloads, understaffing and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12076877 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has agreed to multimillion-dollar settlements with state and federal regulators in recent years related to long wait times for patients seeking mental health services. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20260210\">announced \u003c/a>the company will pay a $2.8 million penalty, and at least $28.3 million to reimburse patients who sought out-of-network care after Kaiser delayed or improperly denied care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the state’s largest health plan said it would invest $150 million over five years to improve behavioral health for its patients and pay a $50 million fine to resolve a California Department of Managed Health Care \u003ca href=\"https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/4367/1697136977902.pdf\">investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the agency, which oversees mental health services in the state, said it is monitoring Kaiser’s progress and investigating a union \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/wp-content/uploads/NUHW-Complaint_DMHC_NorCalTriageServices_2025.docx-1.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> alleging that Kaiser is flouting a state law requiring licensed health care professionals to initially assess patients to determine what care they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNHW maintains that beginning in 2024, Kaiser changed how it screens patients when they call or go online seeking care. The company unilaterally replaced many trained clinicians with unqualified telephone operators and an online questionnaire with AI to make recommendations on next steps, according to the union, which considers the move an unfair labor practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federman, the therapist in San Leandro, said the new system is missing high-risk patients, making them wait longer than recommended to see a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing a lot of people, where it’s like, ‘wow, they’re really acute,’ and by the time triage [sends them], it’s been a month that they’ve waited — and that’s really dangerous,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The therapists’ contract with Kaiser ended last September. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Up to 2,400 mental health professionals at \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/kaiser-permanente\">Kaiser Permanente\u003c/a> in Northern California are set to hold a one-day strike on Wednesday over what they warn is the company’s increasing use of artificial intelligence to the detriment of patient care and, potentially, of their jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unions representing tens of thousands of \u003ca href=\"https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/press/kaiser-nurses-to-hold-24-hour-sympathy-strike-in-solidarity-with-kaiser-mental-health-workers\">nurses\u003c/a>, as well as hospital and facility maintenance professionals, announced they will join picket lines in support of the therapists, including psychologists and social workers, in the Bay Area, Central Valley and Sacramento regions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During monthslong labor contract negotiations, Kaiser has proposed making it easier to lay off therapists and has resisted language stating that the company won’t \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/science/1999553/will-ai-replace-your-therapist-kaiser-wont-say-no\">use AI to replace them\u003c/a>, according to the National Union of Healthcare Workers, which represents the striking mental health employees.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s really sad that this is how they are choosing to behave,” said Leemore Federman, a Kaiser therapist in San Leandro who specializes in post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety and is part of the union’s bargaining team. “If Kaiser wanted to, they have abundant resources to make the mental health department at Kaiser the best, and instead they’re doing everything to make it the worst.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Oakland-based health care giant, which has been under pressure to improve timely access to mental health and substance use disorder services, denies that AI makes any medical or care decisions or is being used to replace therapists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kaiser said it has invested nearly $2 billion since 2020 to expand mental health facilities, hire and train clinicians, and grow its provider network so its more than 9 million California health plan enrollees can get care faster.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076878\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076878\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-02-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We are growing our workforce, not shrinking it, and our commitment to building a pipeline of trained therapists is unquestionable,” the company said in a statement. “We see technology — and AI, in particular — as a way to support our clinicians in managing their practice and provide them with tools that facilitate greater access to care and connection with patients — all to achieve the best possible outcomes for our patients.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We believe AI can be helpful when it supports clinicians — by reducing administrative work or improving efficiency — but it does not replace clinical judgment or human assessment,” Kaiser said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As the AI boom advances with few guardrails, workers in health care and other industries are feeling anxiety about how their employers may use the technology, said Adam Horwitz, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan’s Department of Psychiatry.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, health care companies have introduced AI tools mostly for administrative support tasks, such as note-taking during appointments or patient scheduling, rather than direct patient care. But company decisions to roll out the technology are often happening at high-level meetings behind closed doors without much worker input, which fuels mistrust, he said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Instead, Kaiser is increasingly using telephone operators and online surveys or questionnaires that use AI to screen patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I have seen firsthand patients who were screened by a telephone service operator and sent to an external referral network. In some cases, they were self-harming … they should never have been sent out, they should have talked to a clinician to assess risk, to come up with safety planning and get them a more urgent appointment,” Khalsa told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This latest walkout comes about a month after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12074265/widespread-kaiser-strike-to-end-after-4-weeks-with-no-deal-yet\">end of a four-week strike\u003c/a> that initially involved up to 31,000 nurses, physician assistants, physical therapists, optometrists and other health care employees in California and Hawaii. Those workers are currently voting on whether to ratify tentative agreements the union said included wage increases, as well as staffing and AI protections.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2022, therapists at Kaiser represented by the same union \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11923034/were-drowning-why-kaiser-mental-health-workers-are-striking\">went on strike for 10 weeks\u003c/a>, over concerns about patient care delays, workloads, understaffing and other issues.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076877\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12076877 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaiser has agreed to multimillion-dollar settlements with state and federal regulators in recent years related to long wait times for patients seeking mental health services. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor \u003ca href=\"https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/ebsa/ebsa20260210\">announced \u003c/a>the company will pay a $2.8 million penalty, and at least $28.3 million to reimburse patients who sought out-of-network care after Kaiser delayed or improperly denied care.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2023, the state’s largest health plan said it would invest $150 million over five years to improve behavioral health for its patients and pay a $50 million fine to resolve a California Department of Managed Health Care \u003ca href=\"https://wpso.dmhc.ca.gov/enfactions/docs/4367/1697136977902.pdf\">investigation\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A spokesperson for the agency, which oversees mental health services in the state, said it is monitoring Kaiser’s progress and investigating a union \u003ca href=\"https://nuhw.org/wp-content/uploads/NUHW-Complaint_DMHC_NorCalTriageServices_2025.docx-1.pdf\">complaint\u003c/a> alleging that Kaiser is flouting a state law requiring licensed health care professionals to initially assess patients to determine what care they need.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>UNHW maintains that beginning in 2024, Kaiser changed how it screens patients when they call or go online seeking care. The company unilaterally replaced many trained clinicians with unqualified telephone operators and an online questionnaire with AI to make recommendations on next steps, according to the union, which considers the move an unfair labor practice.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076882\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076882\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260318-KAISER-MENTAL-HEALTH-STRIKE-MD-06-KQED-1536x1025.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mental health workers strike at the Kaiser Oakland Medical Facility in Oakland on March 18, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Federman, the therapist in San Leandro, said the new system is missing high-risk patients, making them wait longer than recommended to see a provider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m seeing a lot of people, where it’s like, ‘wow, they’re really acute,’ and by the time triage [sends them], it’s been a month that they’ve waited — and that’s really dangerous,” she said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The therapists’ contract with Kaiser ended last September. 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"content": "\u003cp>CBS News employees in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> joined dozens of colleagues in New York in a 24-hour walkout on Tuesday, after contract negotiations stalled last week.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Workers for streaming service CBS News 24/7, represented by the Writers Guild of America East, are demanding wage increases, “respect and a sustainable work-life balance.” The walkout comes amid rising tensions at the Paramount-owned broadcast company following its recent bid to acquire Warner Bros. Discovery, and the appointment of controversial political commentator Bari Weiss as CBS News’ editor-in-chief last fall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Paramount has billions to spend acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery, but still hasn’t guaranteed fair wages and basic job protections for the workers who make their streaming news operation run,” said Beth Godvik, WGAE’s Vice President of Broadcast/Cable/Streaming News. “Our members are walking out today to show management they stand united in their demand for a fair contract — and the WGAE is with them every step of the way.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union represents about 60 workers, including 10 in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During initial contract negotiations, which began last month, the company proposed a 1.5% raise for each of the next three years. Producer Justin Lape, a member of the union’s bargaining committee, likened that offer to a slap in the face, saying WGAE’s previous contract, which expired March 9, included 3% annual raises.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Through negotiations, CBS has come up to match the wage hikes in the former contract, he said, but the union has asked for higher.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076783\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076783\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CBS-Walk-Out-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CBS-Walk-Out-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CBS-Walk-Out-KQED-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CBS-Walk-Out-KQED-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Union representatives said CBS’s owner, Paramount, spent billions to acquire Warner Bros. 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In October, CBS announced that Weiss — a vocal critic of mainstream news who founded right-leaning online publication \u003cem>The Free Press, \u003c/em>known for its “anti-woke” perspectives — had been named editor in chief.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since her takeover, CBS News has undergone \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-10-29/paramount-1000-layoffs-skydance-david-ellison\">layoffs\u003c/a> and has seen \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/11/07/bari-weiss-cbs-news-remake/\">departures\u003c/a> of multiple high-profile journalists, as concerns rise about editorial interference within the company.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In July, just a week before the FCC approved Skydance’s $8 billion deal to purchase Paramount, CBS late-night host Stephen Colbert, who’s often criticized Trump, announced that his show had been canceled. In December, amid Paramount Skydance’s push to merge with Warner Bros. Discovery, CBS sparked more controversy after it pulled a \u003cem>60 Minutes \u003c/em>segment hours before it was supposed to air. The segment on the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, a prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration has deported hundreds of people, was apparently cut after Weiss expressed \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html\">concerns\u003c/a> that the piece didn’t include an interview with a White House representative.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Members are fighting to protect their livelihoods during a period of uncertainty in broadcast news,” WGAE said in a statement. “Layoffs, editorial interference and political pressure have all become existential threats following the Paramount Skydance merger, and those same concerns have escalated with a possible merger of Paramount Skydance and Warner Bros. 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"content": "\u003cp>It’s no secret that \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/ai\">artificial intelligence\u003c/a> has taken over the Bay Area’s advertising space. \u003ca href=\"https://www.sidewalktattoos.com/blogs/transforming-san-francisco-streets-wheatpaste-postings-for-ai-companies\">Buildings\u003c/a>, bus shelters and billboards lining Highway \u003ca href=\"https://clearchanneloutdoor.com/blog/decoded-the-psychology-behind-san-franciscos-cryptic-tech-billboards/\">101\u003c/a> have become unofficial chroniclers of the region’s AI boom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The ads are peppered with Silicon Valley speak— SaaS! SOC 2! Vibe coding! — to woo a select few potential employees, clients or investors. But for everyone who \u003cem>isn’t\u003c/em> working in tech, the billboards are an opaque window into an industry that isn’t speaking to them at all.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“So much of AI right here in the Bay, but it feels like a whole separate world,” said Angélica Castro, a community health worker living in San Francisco, on her way to a class at City College of San Francisco. “When you do see AI, it’s on billboards. And they make you feel like you’re some sort of problem for being a human.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-human sentiment dates back to a 2024 campaign by San Francisco-based Artisan AI \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php\">featuring the message\u003c/a>, “Stop hiring humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company leadership did not respond to an interview request from KQED, but CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack said in \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/07/the-real-person-behind-san-franciscos-hated-anti-human-ad-campaign/\">a 2025 interview\u003c/a> with the San Francisco Standard that the billboards were, in fact, deliberate ragebait, designed to spark outrage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1he5ojx/ai_firms_stop_hiring_humans_billboard_campaign/\">angry online chatter\u003c/a> to boost the company’s visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076632\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars idle at a light beneath a tech billboard at Brannan and Fourth streets on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artisan’s ads are now mostly gone, but the fear and anxiety they provoked have taken hold. According to a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-fear-ai-permanently-displacing-workers-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-08-19/\">Reuters/Ipsos poll\u003c/a>, more than 70% of adults surveyed fear that AI will be “putting too many people out of work permanently.” Recent news that Bay Area companies like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/pinterest-layoffs-ai-cf278cf06929db07d5b1310ab7f91861\">Pinterest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343\">Block\u003c/a> are conducting massive layoffs as they automate work with AI continues to stoke these anxieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many billboards now feature ad campaigns that argue AI will empower rather than replace humans. The backlash against “Stop hiring humans” has brought us “Stop firing humans.” But shifting public perception about AI’s human impact will require more than a change in advertising, as skeptics call for worker protections and regulations to prevent large-scale displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zig and zag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the billboards for Artisan AI first went up, David McGrane, advertising professor at the University of San Francisco, remembers how his students reacted. “They were enraged,” he said, adding that many of them felt frustrated seeing this message displayed so publicly when they themselves were starting to look for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to attract attention by being obnoxious — that’s been done in advertising for a century. That’s nothing new,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the approach opened an opportunity for other companies, he said. “They saw the ragebait,” he said. “They saw they could explain that their AI works well when it works with humans. ‘If they’re zigging, we will zag.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076633\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech billboards line Interstate 80 South on Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Abby Connect did. The Las Vegas-based virtual receptionist service unveiled an AI-powered offering last year that takes over some administrative tasks that its human receptionists usually do. After a visit to San Francisco, CEO Nathan Strum wanted to promote it on Silicon Valley’s own turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t come in with your typical message, ‘Hi, we’re an answering service, call us and set up an appointment to learn more,’” Strum said. He wanted to respond directly to the Artisan campaign, he said. “Something triggered me when I saw that — something deep down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Abby ads that read, “Humanity: Stop firing humans,” appeared on Muni bus shelters all over the city. While Abby’s AI schedules appointments, it’s a human that still handles the more complicated calls — like someone calling their dentist about a toothache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love human service, and I love AI. I don’t have to be one or the other,” Strum said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Abby’s not the only one with a campaign that pushes back against automation fears. San Francisco-based firm Nooks pitched its message with a pair of billboards along 101 that read “AI won’t take your job …” and “But someone using Nooks will!”[aside postID=news_12071615 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/01/Tesla-Optimus-Getty.jpg']“We are playing into the topical, ‘How does AI change hiring and jobs?” said CEO Daniel Lee, who started Nooks with fellow Stanford University students during the pandemic. The company sells software that automates parts of a salesperson’s job — like researching clients or following up on emails.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Sales is human, and sales reps will continue selling in the future,” Lee said, and compared sales to a game of chess. “We’re playing the game alongside you, helping you think a lot less about manually making the moves and a lot more about the strategy and solving customer problems.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Linear, a San Francisco-based company, took one of the most recognizable images in Western civilization — Michelangelo’s \u003cem>The Creation of Adam\u003c/em> — and instead of God reaching towards Adam, God’s hand now approaches a cluster of tiny cursor hands. Below, a message reads, “Agents. At your command.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The company wanted to stay away from any message that suggested AI is replacing humans, COO Cristina Cordova said. Linear produces software for engineers and designers to work together on projects, and includes “agents” — virtual workers that do a lot of the coding themselves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The billboards — like Linear’s product — are not meant for everyone, Cordova said. But she’s optimistic about a future where more people can build their own software when AI can deal with complex code.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to position human beings as the source of intent, the decision makers, the ones who have taste and judgment,” Cordova said. Echoing her company’s Sistine Chapel-coded billboards, she said. “The human role is almost divine.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Who regulates AI workers?\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>At a recent industry conference in New Delhi, OpenAI and ChatGPT chief Sam Altman \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/live/qH7thwrCluM\">told the press\u003c/a> that automation has eliminated jobs multiple times in history. But it’s also created entirely new industries, he said. “We always find new things to do, and I have no doubt we will find lots of better ones this time.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there’s no guarantee that humans whose jobs are automated will actually find a new livelihood, said UC Los Angeles professor Ramesh Srinivasan, who studies the connections between technology and democracy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_006_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_006_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_006_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_006_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A cyclist rides along Fifth Street beneath a tech billboard on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Where are the jobs and what are they going to look like?” he said. Without a clear picture of how humans will add value to the work AI takes up, he said. “What’s on the chopping block is the social contract where people are compensated for their labor.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Srinivasan said the gig economy — rideshare apps like Uber and Lyft, for example — show how, without enough government oversight, tech innovations that promised to give workers more freedom actually create more precarious conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>During California’s 2020 election, Uber and other gig companies spent \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11843123/prop-22-explained-why-gig-companies-are-spending-huge-money-on-an-unprecedented-measure\">more than $200 million\u003c/a> backing Proposition 22, a ballot measure allowing them to classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees — exempting them from state labor protections such as minimum wage, overtime pay, and workers’ compensation. While backers of Proposition 22 promised the initiative would guarantee minimum earnings, many ride-hail drivers say their\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12057798/california-gives-uber-lyft-drivers-collective-bargaining-rights\"> real wages have slipped\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12072425 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/05/AP24134775174210-1020x680.jpg']“The direction tech has taken has become an amplifier of inequality, but it certainly doesn’t need to be that way,” Srinivasan said. He’s skeptical that President Donald Trump and his administration will set up guardrails to prevent widespread AI automation and points to \u003ca href=\"https://www.wired.com/story/tech-ceos-donald-trump-white-house/\">the close relationship\u003c/a> OpenAI and other tech giants have developed with the White House.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If regulators have been captured by the technology industry, then you don’t have much recourse,” he said. “The point of regulation isn’t to stop technology innovation, but to direct it in a way that supports multiple stakeholders rather than just a few investors.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California lawmakers and labor groups are pushing forward legislation in response to AI automation. Last month, state Sen. Eloise Gómez Reyes, D-San Bernardino, introduced \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.digitaldemocracy.org/bills/ca_202520260sb951\">SB 951\u003c/a>, which would require employers to notify workers and state officials at least 90 days in advance before any “technological displacement” — layoffs caused “by the introduction of an AI system or other automated technology.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California Labor Federation — which represents over 2.3 million workers — supports the bill. “We need data on which jobs and industries are impacted by AI layoffs and hiring freezes and what tools are being used to replace workers,” said Lorena Gonzalez, president of the California Labor Federation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whether the AI industry can keep that promised balance between human and machine in the workforce may not matter much for Bay Area residents already struggling in the existing job market.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076637\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076637\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_005_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_005_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_005_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_005_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A woman walks past a bus shelter ad reading “Humanity. Stop firing humans.” in front of a boarded storefront at Fifth and Harrison streets on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ian Molloy, a paraeducator at a San Francisco public school, said he sees the billboard advertisements for AI every single day. “You see them and feel this existential dread about this whole block of AI,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Molloy participated in February’s four-day \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12073306/sfusd-teachers-strike-no-end-in-sight-health-care-battle\">teacher strike\u003c/a> that included demands for family health care and wage increases. He said the topic of billboards in the city came up on the picket line.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lot of San Francisco is marketed towards a very small portion of San Francisco,” he said, adding that the future these billboards promise impacts everyone in the city — regardless of whether they are the target audience or not.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I wish we lived in a world where if AI took your job, you would not starve, not be homeless,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“But the reality is we don’t have a good enough social safety net.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The anti-human sentiment dates back to a 2024 campaign by San Francisco-based Artisan AI \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/sf-artisan-billboards-stop-hiring-humans-19969672.php\">featuring the message\u003c/a>, “Stop hiring humans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Company leadership did not respond to an interview request from KQED, but CEO Jaspar Carmichael-Jack said in \u003ca href=\"https://sfstandard.com/2025/04/07/the-real-person-behind-san-franciscos-hated-anti-human-ad-campaign/\">a 2025 interview\u003c/a> with the San Francisco Standard that the billboards were, in fact, deliberate ragebait, designed to spark outrage and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/1he5ojx/ai_firms_stop_hiring_humans_billboard_campaign/\">angry online chatter\u003c/a> to boost the company’s visibility.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076632\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076632\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020226AI-Billboards-_GH_007_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cars idle at a light beneath a tech billboard at Brannan and Fourth streets on Feb. 2, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Artisan’s ads are now mostly gone, but the fear and anxiety they provoked have taken hold. According to a 2025 \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/world/us/americans-fear-ai-permanently-displacing-workers-reutersipsos-poll-finds-2025-08-19/\">Reuters/Ipsos poll\u003c/a>, more than 70% of adults surveyed fear that AI will be “putting too many people out of work permanently.” Recent news that Bay Area companies like \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/pinterest-layoffs-ai-cf278cf06929db07d5b1310ab7f91861\">Pinterest\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/jack/status/2027129697092731343\">Block\u003c/a> are conducting massive layoffs as they automate work with AI continues to stoke these anxieties.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many billboards now feature ad campaigns that argue AI will empower rather than replace humans. The backlash against “Stop hiring humans” has brought us “Stop firing humans.” But shifting public perception about AI’s human impact will require more than a change in advertising, as skeptics call for worker protections and regulations to prevent large-scale displacement.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Zig and zag\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>When the billboards for Artisan AI first went up, David McGrane, advertising professor at the University of San Francisco, remembers how his students reacted. “They were enraged,” he said, adding that many of them felt frustrated seeing this message displayed so publicly when they themselves were starting to look for jobs.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Trying to attract attention by being obnoxious — that’s been done in advertising for a century. That’s nothing new,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the approach opened an opportunity for other companies, he said. “They saw the ragebait,” he said. “They saw they could explain that their AI works well when it works with humans. ‘If they’re zigging, we will zag.’”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076633\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1999px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076633\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1999\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed.jpg 1999w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/020326AI-Billboards-_GH_010_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1999px) 100vw, 1999px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tech billboards line Interstate 80 South on Feb. 3, 2026, in San Francisco. \u003ccite>(Gustavo Hernandez/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s exactly what Abby Connect did. The Las Vegas-based virtual receptionist service unveiled an AI-powered offering last year that takes over some administrative tasks that its human receptionists usually do. After a visit to San Francisco, CEO Nathan Strum wanted to promote it on Silicon Valley’s own turf.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We couldn’t come in with your typical message, ‘Hi, we’re an answering service, call us and set up an appointment to learn more,’” Strum said. He wanted to respond directly to the Artisan campaign, he said. “Something triggered me when I saw that — something deep down.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Soon, Abby ads that read, “Humanity: Stop firing humans,” appeared on Muni bus shelters all over the city. While Abby’s AI schedules appointments, it’s a human that still handles the more complicated calls — like someone calling their dentist about a toothache.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I love human service, and I love AI. 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