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Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cstrong>Here are the morning’s top stories on Thursday, October 29, 2026\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n\u003cli>Dolores Huerta is \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">being remembered across the country\u003c/a> as an iconic leader of the United Farm Workers and a pioneering feminist and civil rights advocate. But she was rooted right here in California. And when she died Wednesday at the age of 96, she was at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/li>\n\n\n\n\u003cli>The CEO of California’s High Speed Rail Authority \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">has abruptly resigned\u003c/a> from the job. \u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106928/california-leaders-mourn-celebrate-dolores-huerta-and-her-legacy\">California leaders mourn, celebrate Dolores Huerta and her legacy\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California leaders mourned Dolores Huerta, the indefatigable civil rights champion and farmworker advocate, praising her as a hero, giant and legend after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12106881/dolores-huerta-influential-labor-leader-feminist-and-civil-rights-icon-dies-at-96\">her death on Wednesday\u003c/a> at age 96. Her family said in a statement that she died from cancer at home in Bakersfield. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who co-founded one of the world’s most renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/bayareabites/120851/dolores-huerta-the-civil-rights-icon-who-showed-farmworkers-si-se-puede\">agricultural worker labor movements\u003c/a>, spent most of her life pushing for economic justice and a voice for the dispossessed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even at her advanced age, she continued to participate in marches and protests, and encouraged Latino citizens to vote, including just days ago, said Angelica Salas, who directs the Los Angeles-based nonprofit Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights, and called Huerta “a mentor to thousands.” “She felt in her core that injustice had to be fought 24/7,” said Salas, adding that Huerta was a friend who supported her personally and professionally for decades. “The United States of America has lost a hero today.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fierce labor negotiator in a field dominated by men, Huerta helped lead large strikes and boycotts in the 1960s and 1970s with the union that became the United Farm Workers. Her labor organizing changed state laws and produced some of the nation’s first contracts to secure drinking water, sanitary toilets and other basic rights for thousands of farmworkers. Huerta lobbied for California to become the first state to give agricultural workers the \u003ca href=\"https://www.alrb.ca.gov/forms-publications/faqs-and-guidance/fact-sheet-english/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">legal right to organize\u003c/a> and join unions in 1975, decades after the passage of a federal law that protected collective bargaining for other private-sector employees.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who had more than a dozen children, coined the social-justice rallying cry “\u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/research/history/history-si-se-puede/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sí se puede\u003c/a>,” translated as “Yes we can.” Former President Barack Obama, who coalesced millions of voters under the phrase during a historic 2008 presidential campaign, awarded Huerta the \u003ca href=\"https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2012/05/29/remarks-president-presidential-medal-freedom-ceremony\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. Julián Castro, who leads the San Francisco-based Latino Community Foundation, said Huerta was an American icon who changed the course of history for good through her contributions to the labor movement, inspiring young women and men to work for social change. “Dolores, for me and I know for a lot of people, has been a role model of how you can dedicate your life to serving others, to making other people’s lives better,” Castro, a former U.S. housing secretary and San Antonio mayor who ran for president in 2020, told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta spoke out against the rampant sexual abuse of farmworker women in the fields in a 2013 \u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/rape-in-the-fields/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. “I believe that the employers are in total denial, and they will often take the word of the foreman or the manager against the woman if she does come forward,” Huerta said in the documentary. “And women know this. They know that they’re not going to be heard. They know that nobody’s going to be there to support them or protect them.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She stunned many by \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">revealing\u003c/a> at age 95 that she herself was manipulated into sex and raped in the 1960s by the late union leader Cesar Chávez. Huerta came forward in a \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> investigation that uncovered disturbing accusations that Chávez sexually abused young girls and women for years. Huerta told the newspaper that she chose not to report the abuse partly because she feared that no one within the union would believe her. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">\u003cstrong>\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-ceo-resigns/\">Head of California high-speed rail agency resigns amid travel expenses scandal\u003c/a>\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The CEO of California’s high-speed rail authority resigned late Wednesday, saying he needs to focus on “important personal and family priorities,” according to a copy of the emailed resignation obtained by CalMatters.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This has not been an easy decision, as leading the Authority has been one of the most meaningful and rewarding chapters of my professional life,” wrote Chief Executive Ian Choudri.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He will be replaced by \u003ca href=\"https://dof.ca.gov/about-us/executive-staff/joe-stephenshaw/\">Joe Stephenshaw\u003c/a>, who has led the state Department of Finance since July 2022 after working as a policy analyst in the state Legislature for more than a decade, the board announced Thursday morning following a closed session.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The abrupt announcement comes in the midst of a two-day meeting of the board that oversees the project, which continues Thursday. It follows Choudri’s tumultuous two-year tenure, which has been troubled by budget woes, project delays, transparency concerns and various scandals including the misuse of \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/09/california-high-speed-rail-travel-expenses/\">nearly $600,000 in taxpayer money\u003c/a> for questionable trips by rail authority consultants.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Under Choudri, the authority also lost $4 billion in federal funding under President Donald Trump’s administration, after the agency \u003ca href=\"https://www.cbsnews.com/news/california-high-speed-rail-train-procurement-newsom/\">repeatedly missed deadlines\u003c/a> required by the funding agreement to buy trains. The state initially sued Trump for the funding but abruptly dropped the lawsuit in December 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/about/transparency-accountability/funding/federal-grants/\">blaming Trump as “not a reliable partner”\u003c/a> and turning to private investors instead.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Investigative-Report-2026-Allegations-of-Wasteful-and-Unallowable-Travel-Expenses-for-Contracted-Consultants-A11Y.pdf\">State investigators\u003c/a> last month found the rail agency’s consultants flew first class, hailed premium rides and traveled to a nightclub, cigar lounge and restaurants on taxpayers’ dime, sometimes at Choudri’s request. Many of the trips involved traveling to Folsom, the Sacramento suburb where Choudri has a home, sometimes after hours. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board voted earlier this month to \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/10/california-high-speed-rail-board-contracts/\">limit Choudri’s contracting authority\u003c/a> following the probe, requiring the in-house legal counsel to sign off first on contracts under $25 million.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">California voters in 2008 approved a $10 billion bond to build a bullet train connecting San Francisco to Los Angeles by 2020, with a projected cost of $45 billion. But progress stalled amid rising costs, legal fights and funding uncertainties. The authority’s \u003ca href=\"https://hsr.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/06/2026-Final-Business-Plan-060126-A11Y.pdf\">latest business plan\u003c/a> said the project could now cost between $126 billion and $231 billion, with the current 171-mile leg between Merced and Bakersfield under construction, and a full buildout expected by 2040.\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">More than six months after \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-jose\">San José\u003c/a> put a plan in motion to rename the downtown park and plaza long named for Cesar Chavez, city leaders have made a choice. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The elliptical gathering space in downtown will now be known as Plaza de San José, after a unanimous vote of the City Council on Tuesday afternoon. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José took first place in a ranked-choice survey of five naming options that was put to residents in the summer. With more than 10,500 responses to the survey, it earned more first-choice votes than the second-place and third-place options combined, according to city reports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“By a fairly resounding margin, the community has made it clear that Plaza de San José is their preferred choice for renaming the plaza,” Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown, said during the meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A stone stage platform at one end of Plaza de Cesar Chavez is seen in downtown San José on July 27, 2026. The platform’s engraved lettering bearing Chavez’s name has been removed. (Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003c/div>\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I think that this is really a name that speaks to the central role that this park has played in our city’s civic history as the oldest public space in Northern California, as the site of our first State Capitol here in \u003ca href=\"https://www.library.ca.gov/california-history/previous-ca-capitals/\">California\u003c/a> and as a longtime home to one of our earlier city halls. I think it’s a name that does its part to reflect the legacy and the importance of both the Spanish and the Mexican heritage in our city’s history,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The decision brings to a close a monthslong process of public engagement spanning community meetings and listening sessions, surveys and voting, which was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12092702/san-jose-asks-for-help-renaming-plaza-de-cesar-chavez\">put into motion\u003c/a> after allegations broke that Chavez, long hailed as a unifying labor rights figure, sexually abused women and girls. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">New York Times report\u003c/a> in March revealed Chavez’s alleged abuses, including against Dolores Huerta, with whom he co-founded what would become the United Farm Workers union, prompting cities and districts up and down the state to consider renaming the streets, parks, schools and other landmarks titled to honor him. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mayor Matt Mahan said the result is a “positive outcome” and thanked city staff for doing “a very nice job of navigating an unexpected and sensitive situation” that has been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077159/east-san-jose-leaders-call-for-supporting-survivors-after-cesar-chavez-allegations\">difficult for residents\u003c/a>. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the council ultimately chose Plaza de San José because of the community voting behind it, some residents and Parks and Recreation commissioners pushed for names they said have more audible or cultural heft. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Parks and Recreation commission, after reviewing community input, earlier this month suggested the council adopt the name, Plaza del Pueblo de San José, a combination of two naming options from public surveys. Commissioner Daisy Barocio said Plaza de San José lacked “richness” and felt “very plain and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misrayn Mendoza of community group Amigos de Guadalupe, along with several others, called into the council meeting on Tuesday to suggest renaming the area Plaza de los Inmigrantes, or Immigrants Plaza, noting the city’s population is made up of more than 40% immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot take the easy way out and name it just the Plaza of San José,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community meetings and surveys yielded more than 600 suggestions for potential names from residents and organizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winnowing down the choices to five options based on what was most frequently suggested, and removing options that didn’t meet the city’s existing criteria for park names, city staff shared five options in a ranked-choice voting survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José was the overall leader after the survey, with Farmworkers Plaza the second preferred choice and Plaza del Pueblo the third, followed by Plaza Park and Plaza de Quetzalcoatl. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City staff said a request for qualifications will go out later this year seeking a group to establish a conservancy for the plaza, and a contract could be completed in the spring. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José’s broad community support “will really set up this next era for the plaza well and help us get on that journey with the right foot,” Tordillos said. “And it will reaffirm that this really is a park that belongs to the people of San José and where everyone in our community is welcome.”\u003c/p>\n",
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With more than 10,500 responses to the survey, it earned more first-choice votes than the second-place and third-place options combined, according to city reports.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“By a fairly resounding margin, the community has made it clear that Plaza de San José is their preferred choice for renaming the plaza,” Councilmember Anthony Tordillos, who represents downtown, said during the meeting. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"wp-block-image\">\n\u003cfigure class=\"aligncenter size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12092783\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/07/260727-PLAZACESAR-JG-11-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A stone stage platform at one end of Plaza de Cesar Chavez is seen in downtown San José on July 27, 2026. 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Commissioner Daisy Barocio said Plaza de San José lacked “richness” and felt “very plain and safe.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Misrayn Mendoza of community group Amigos de Guadalupe, along with several others, called into the council meeting on Tuesday to suggest renaming the area Plaza de los Inmigrantes, or Immigrants Plaza, noting the city’s population is made up of more than 40% immigrants. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“We cannot take the easy way out and name it just the Plaza of San José,” he said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The community meetings and surveys yielded more than 600 suggestions for potential names from residents and organizations. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After winnowing down the choices to five options based on what was most frequently suggested, and removing options that didn’t meet the city’s existing criteria for park names, city staff shared five options in a ranked-choice voting survey. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José was the overall leader after the survey, with Farmworkers Plaza the second preferred choice and Plaza del Pueblo the third, followed by Plaza Park and Plaza de Quetzalcoatl. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">City staff said a request for qualifications will go out later this year seeking a group to establish a conservancy for the plaza, and a contract could be completed in the spring. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Plaza de San José’s broad community support “will really set up this next era for the plaza well and help us get on that journey with the right foot,” Tordillos said. “And it will reaffirm that this really is a park that belongs to the people of San José and where everyone in our community is welcome.”\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp>San Francisco officials revealed two possible names on Thursday that could replace \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">César Chavez \u003c/a>Street, following sexual abuse allegations against the activist earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Street signs along the 3-mile road could soon read: “Las Campesinas,” which means female farmworkers, or “Sí, Se Puede,” a rallying cry of the farmworkers’ movement, meaning “Yes, you can.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The names were selected by a working group of neighborhood residents, labor leaders and city officials put together by Mayor Daniel Lurie in the wake of a shocking \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> investigation, which accused Chavez of a pattern of sexual misconduct against young girls and women. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>One of his victims was Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Chavez in the 1960s. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260319-Cesar-Chavez-Street-MD-01_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101366\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260319-Cesar-Chavez-Street-MD-01_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260319-Cesar-Chavez-Street-MD-01_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260319-Cesar-Chavez-Street-MD-01_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">A street sign on César Chavez Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2026. (Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Cities, schools and organizations across the U.S. moved quickly to strip the late labor leader’s name from public view, but in San Francisco, renaming the street carries additional weight for many. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Former Supervisor Susan Leal, who is co-leading the renaming working group, said she remembers the celebration when she and the Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to name the street for Chavez, as well as the backlash that quickly followed. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp>On Chavez’s birthday in 1995, new signs bearing his name replaced “Army Street,” the former name for the artery that borders the Mission District’s Latino Cultural District and connects the Bayshore to Noe Valley. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>But the moment came at a time of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment, and some city residents quickly launched a movement to repeal the change through a citywide ballot measure later that fall.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>That initiative was ultimately defeated, and for the last 30 years, the name has stood as a reminder of the farmworker movement Chavez helped build, and acknowledgment of San Francisco’s Latino community.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“The political climate that we’re in, it’s very similar to the political climate and hate against our community [in 1995],” Olga Miranda, the president of SEIU Local 87, said at a community meeting revealing the new name options on Thursday night. “Our entire community, we’ve been under assault, we’ve been attacked, our families have disappeared, kidnapped. And so what César Chavez meant to us was a really deal back then, and it still [is].”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Miranda said the committee has spent weeks discussing many possible names, including those of other prominent leaders of the farmworker movement, like Huerta.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12101372\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/09/260924-ChavezRenaming-NG-15-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Mary Travis-Allen raises her hand to speak at a community meeting on renaming César Chavez Street at Leonard R. 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(Joseph Geha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>She expects the legacy of the park as a valuable shared space in the city’s downtown to continue, now and after the renaming. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“A name is a name, but at the end of the day, it’s about the memories and the community connections that are made in that place,” she said. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After the close of the survey, city staff will review the results and present recommendations to the Parks and Recreation Commission at its Sept. 2 meeting, according to the city. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>The commission is expected to make a recommendation to the City Council, which will make the final decision on the park’s new name.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>Jamie Ortizen, of San José, was visiting the park on Monday with her family and a friend from out of town. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>After reviewing the five naming options, Ortizen said she likes Farmworkers Plaza. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp>“It still has the spirit of what Cesar Chavez was fighting for. 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My dad and brother, who is a year older than I am, often handled the higher branches that required using a ladder, while I excelled at the low-hanging fruit. We’d come home covered in dirt and exhausted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Last month, California lawmakers \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">renamed a state holiday\u003c/a> on March 31 to Farmworkers Day after the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> published allegations\u003c/a> that now-disgraced labor rights icon Cesar Chavez had abused young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming happened swiftly. Lawmakers called the change “long overdue” as if we are rectifying a wrong that should have been fixed years ago. But, to me, this incident reinforces how farmworkers have been marginalized, discriminated against, and overlooked for centuries in the United States since the time enslaved people did most farm work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-515109272-scaled-e1773940356467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez pickets outside the San Diego-area headquarters of Safeway markets. It was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California, Safeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My hope would be that this holiday becomes a substantive and longstanding tradition, but I’m skeptical. We have Mother’s Day, but research shows that moms are some of the most overworked, undercompensated and stretched-thin members of society. But, hey, we love our moms!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The same type of hollow praise could happen to farmworkers. Farm labor is considered a category separate from all other types of jobs, hence that unartful term “nonfarm jobs” that makes up most jobs in America.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to an \u003ca href=\"https://www.stlouisfed.org/open-vault/2019/july/nonfarm-payrolls-why-farmers-not-included\">explainer\u003c/a> from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, “The answer may go back to early America. Highly seasonal, farming has always had a special place in our history — and our hearts.”[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-1.jpg']Farm labor is hard to count because workers include farmers, their family members and hired workers who are often seasonal employees. 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This state is home to more farmworkers than any other state, with about \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/how-many-farmworkers-are-employed-in-the-united-states/\">800,000 seasonal and full-time workers\u003c/a> each year, representing about \u003ca href=\"https://edd.ca.gov/en/about_edd/news_releases_and_announcements/california-thanks-its-agricultural-workforce-with-45th-annual-farmworkers-appreciation-breakfast/\">2.2 percent\u003c/a> of the state’s workforce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“There has not been a farmworker movement for decades,” said Miriam Pawel, a journalist who has written two books about the United Farm Workers on an \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101913334/california-confronts-the-cesar-chavez-allegations\">episode of Forum\u003c/a> that aired days after the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> investigation was published. “Declaring something as Farmworker Day instead of Cesar Chavez Day doesn’t really do anything for the farmworkers in the fields who are working in very tough conditions right now.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Farm work has been a job that we regard as something you do if you’re desperate and have no other options, instead of regarding it as a job worthy of dignity and respect because of how hard it is.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Looking away from farm work is another way that the labor and economic contributions of immigrants and Latinos are erased. But for many Mexican American families, farm work has served as an accessible stepping stone to achieve the American Dream. Despite the grueling hours and low pay, thousands of families, like my own, have had farmwork in our history.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']A few years ago, photos of graduates donning their cap and gowns surrounded by orchards went viral. The graduates in regalia, contrasting with the lush green of fruit trees, were both visually and emotionally striking because farm work and education come off as incompatible, as opposites. The images conveyed the message that leaving the fields equates to progress, but those images also conveyed gratitude for parents who taught their children what hard work looks like and that the returns can be worth so much more than a paycheck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Those weeks picking cherries were what we might now call a side hustle, but they were among the most formative experiences of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’d usually spend a few weeks doing this while my dad took vacation from his regular job at a potato processing plant. My parents were very explicit that the reason for taking us to the fields was to teach us the value of hard work and what adults had to do to make money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The lessons from those summers in the fields informed so much of my work ethic and the value of manual labor. I also had the privilege of knowing that my days picking cherries were numbered. I would eventually return to school, and if I earned good grades, my parents told me, I would have other career options. But I also knew there were many people who would spend their whole working lives in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Whenever I buy cherries, I think about how each little bunch was probably picked by someone — a real person, like me — who deserves to be compensated for their hard work. And for that, we have to keep the fight alive and make sure state holidays and words of praise have substance. It means not looking away from farm work and giving that occupation the respect it deserves.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Victoria Duran grew up in East San José, and remembers celebrating her community’s ties to labor activist and United Farm Workers co-founder Cesar Chavez. His legacy looms large on the East Side, where he \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">held his first organizing meetings \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and where his former home still stands. \u003c/span>But for many people in San José, that sense of pride was shattered after a\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cem> \u003c/em>\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> into allegations of sexual abuse by Chavez.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now Duran, who teaches ethnic studies and psychology at William C. 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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/span>\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. Cesar Chavez has been a big part of California history for decades. But his legacy looms especially large in East San Jose, where the co-founder of the United Farm Workers held his first organizing meetings and where his former home still stands today. And for Victoria Duran, who grew up on San Jose’s East Side in the 90s, Chavez was celebrated as a hometown hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:00:40] A sense of pride, a sense of honor, a sense of recognition of someone who was for the people was what was really cultivated at an early age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:52] But last month, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> published an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Chavez, including allegations of rape by co-organizer Dolores Huerta. And for Duran, who teaches ethnic studies at William C. Overfelt High School in East San Jose now, she has to reckon with how to teach about the legacy of Cesar Chavez to the next generation of East Side kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] One of the in-class responses to that was, “so we were lied to this entire time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] Today, how one ethnic studies teacher in East San Jose is reckoning with the legacy of Cesar Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] My name is Dr. Victoria Isabel Duran, and I am from East San Jose. I am the daughter of working-class parents who had visions and really instilled with us just a desire and love for community and I come from grandparents who’ve worked the fields and I feel deeply seated from a land and a place that holds rich history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] So you grew up in East San Jose, you’re from there. What was that like for you growing up in east San Jose? And I’m also curious what your earliest memories of learning about Cesar Chavez were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:02:40] I attended a school led by a Chicana principal, which I thought was really powerful in the 90s. And in that, when I think of Cesar Chavez, as we would line up for lunch, I remember the image of him, where you would see the fields and then the skulls and then figures embedded in the signs. And that would be something that I would see daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Like a mural?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] It wasn’t a mural, it was an art piece of him in the cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] Oh wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] And that was consistently there. What really comes to mind is a sense of pride, a sense honor, a sense recognition of someone who was for the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] And he was rooted in the same community you were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Yeah, you had that connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] Ties to the Guadalupe Church, recognizing that his home was here and, you know, attending in middle school and high school, there were competitions for art, annual luncheons, and gatherings to be able to bring student performers in the context of his legacy and just recognizing that through heroes, through historical figures, there is a sense of mapping out what the disability looks like in our own activism. And so attending these, it was a lot of honor, a lot of seeing yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Duran (R), meeting legendary labor organized and UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta (L), in 1995. \u003ccite>(Victoria Duran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] It’s such a, I feel like a unique way to grow up, to see yourself reflected in history, to feel that so close to home. And obviously now you teach back in East San Jose. I’m curious before the news how you were teaching the history of Cesar Chavez, especially as a teacher rooted in East San Jose and having. This upbringing and this connection to that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] We had a moment where we would unpack and analyze music, the chants, having an understanding of materials that were shared, news clippings, audio recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cesar Chavez \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] And we went to the people of this country and we said, in whichever way we could, with leaflets, going to meetings, to students, to union meetings, to church meetings, and everywhere and anywhere that they would have us. And we told the people in America, help us, we need your help. And they responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] And students came in with a critique, right, where students also began to expand that, oh, he didn’t fight for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cesar Chavez \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] These are the illegals from Mexico. As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s gonna be very difficult to win strikes, so therefore the only way to win strike is by then taking our fight to the citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] He had feelings about Mexicans, undocumented folks, and we, you know, through the language and terminology of ethnic studies, recognizing that as xenophobia. And recognizing that, okay, if, you, know, students amongst the class, like, who would not be represented within the movement? When students critique that you know they come in and are just kind of wary…and then others just, well, what do you mean? This is someone who’s always been revered and recognized within my community. And so then they begin to have that exchange and unpacking, which is powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] I mean, it sounds like, you know, this critique was already happening in your classrooms around Cesar Chavez, but obviously on March 18th, the New York Times published this investigation that found, I mean very extensive evidence that he groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement for years. And do you remember where you were when you found out this news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] I’m thankful that one of my alumni students reached out to me. He offered me. Want to offer you some caution as you interact with the news these next days. Some information came out around Cesar Chavez. It was kind of one of those things, like I don’t know that I’m ready to even search up the information at that moment. So I allowed myself that space after school and I started to read and learn about and just feeling like a weight on your chest of — how devastating. Here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] I found that out on the 18th. I had the day off on the 19th for myself. And on the 20th, I went back to school. So I was able to go into the conversations with some rest. I said, I will respond if students say they’re ready. And my first period of that day, they said, “are we gonna talk about this?” And I said of course, what questions do you have? One of the in-class responses was, “so we were lied to this entire time.” “I chanted for him. I marched for him!” “We have these things at schools for him, what do you mean? Did he do no good?” “Why are they moving so fast to remove his monuments when we’ve heard of these Epstein cases and the files and the harms done here? Why isn’t accountability being held across?” And these were honest, in real time questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:46] How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] Your feelings are valid. And I don’t think you’re alone, feeling that alone right now. I had one student in particular who offered. I did not participate in elementary school on these marches. And I was shamed by my peers and by teachers and adults because my family and I had a critique of him already. We are not a monolith in how we regard a person, especially with rooted within the context of Eastside and the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:20] And what are these that you brought? Just their written responses in the days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Yes. After the news? This is some of their art from watching a documentary. So after the news, we went into an overview of patriarchy, sexism, and intersectionality to preface and guide into watching Dolores. When we watched Dolores, there were also segments from her childhood and to her adulthood, and then they left with a sense of… Oh, look at these interactions between Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, and one in particular when he spoke about the role of women and that they are to be protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Oh, gosh, wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] And I asked myself, should I pause it? I said, are you all ready for this? Is this something that you wanna discuss? And they said that we do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:13] It’s like amazing to see some of this art and some of the things that they have on here. I mean, this drawing of a woman. I’m assuming it’s Dolores Huerta covering her mouth. I feel like what you’re describing is your students very much, and also you as a teacher, really navigating this news in real time. How does this news change? How you’re thinking about teaching the history of Cesar Chavez. I mean, he will always be someone who played a big role in history, right? And who will always have this connection to San Jose, but how are you thinking about how you now acknowledge the harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] I’m thinking about the feeling of driving up here and seeing Cesar Chavez, Portola Avenue, right? There’s a responsibility, right, and shaping, and I think that’s where the agency of young people, when they shape a curriculum too, because ethnic studies within San Jose is a different experience of ethnic studies within San Francisco, within any other region. There’s deep grief. Challenging work and I think part of, you know, moving from this too was what are the necessary elements of a proper apology. How do we name the harm that occurs? How do we establish consent and young people want to practice and talk about that? I can only measure how I move forward as an educator being responsive to what students craft together with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] I know it’s been a couple of weeks now since this news, maybe for other people outside of East San Jose, this has sort of faded, you know? It’s not something they’re thinking about. Maybe they don’t have a street near them named after Cesar Chavez. But for you, teaching ethnic studies, being rooted in this place that’s so connected to him and his legacy, is this still coming up for you on the day-to-day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:36] And you’re still navigating it. You’re still figuring it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:12:39] Yes. It illuminates how patriarchy functions and how we’re all participants, as bell hooks says. I look to this as a reminder of, okay, do we have our heroes? Do we have, like, situating the stories around an individual person? Because a sustaining movement is focused on the movement. The work runs deep. This didn’t happen overnight. And the repair and healing is not gonna be overnight. And it is gonna be generational.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\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. Cesar Chavez has been a big part of California history for decades. But his legacy looms especially large in East San Jose, where the co-founder of the United Farm Workers held his first organizing meetings and where his former home still stands today. And for Victoria Duran, who grew up on San Jose’s East Side in the 90s, Chavez was celebrated as a hometown hero.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:00:40] A sense of pride, a sense of honor, a sense of recognition of someone who was for the people was what was really cultivated at an early age.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:52] But last month, \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> published an investigation into sexual abuse allegations against Chavez, including allegations of rape by co-organizer Dolores Huerta. And for Duran, who teaches ethnic studies at William C. Overfelt High School in East San Jose now, she has to reckon with how to teach about the legacy of Cesar Chavez to the next generation of East Side kids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:01:26] One of the in-class responses to that was, “so we were lied to this entire time?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:01:34] Today, how one ethnic studies teacher in East San Jose is reckoning with the legacy of Cesar Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:01:52] My name is Dr. Victoria Isabel Duran, and I am from East San Jose. I am the daughter of working-class parents who had visions and really instilled with us just a desire and love for community and I come from grandparents who’ve worked the fields and I feel deeply seated from a land and a place that holds rich history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:27] So you grew up in East San Jose, you’re from there. What was that like for you growing up in east San Jose? And I’m also curious what your earliest memories of learning about Cesar Chavez were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:02:40] I attended a school led by a Chicana principal, which I thought was really powerful in the 90s. And in that, when I think of Cesar Chavez, as we would line up for lunch, I remember the image of him, where you would see the fields and then the skulls and then figures embedded in the signs. And that would be something that I would see daily.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:02] Like a mural?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:03] It wasn’t a mural, it was an art piece of him in the cafeteria.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:06] Oh wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:07] And that was consistently there. What really comes to mind is a sense of pride, a sense honor, a sense recognition of someone who was for the people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:20] And he was rooted in the same community you were.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Growing up.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:03:24] Yeah, you had that connection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:03:27] Ties to the Guadalupe Church, recognizing that his home was here and, you know, attending in middle school and high school, there were competitions for art, annual luncheons, and gatherings to be able to bring student performers in the context of his legacy and just recognizing that through heroes, through historical figures, there is a sense of mapping out what the disability looks like in our own activism. And so attending these, it was a lot of honor, a lot of seeing yourself.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12079046\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1125px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12079046\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1125\" height=\"1115\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173.jpg 1125w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/04/IMG_4173-160x159.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1125px) 100vw, 1125px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Victoria Duran (R), meeting legendary labor organized and UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta (L), in 1995. \u003ccite>(Victoria Duran)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:04:04] It’s such a, I feel like a unique way to grow up, to see yourself reflected in history, to feel that so close to home. And obviously now you teach back in East San Jose. I’m curious before the news how you were teaching the history of Cesar Chavez, especially as a teacher rooted in East San Jose and having. This upbringing and this connection to that history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:04:35] We had a moment where we would unpack and analyze music, the chants, having an understanding of materials that were shared, news clippings, audio recordings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cesar Chavez \u003c/strong>[00:04:49] And we went to the people of this country and we said, in whichever way we could, with leaflets, going to meetings, to students, to union meetings, to church meetings, and everywhere and anywhere that they would have us. And we told the people in America, help us, we need your help. And they responded.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:05:05] And students came in with a critique, right, where students also began to expand that, oh, he didn’t fight for everybody.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Cesar Chavez \u003c/strong>[00:05:16] These are the illegals from Mexico. As long as we have a poor country bordering California, it’s gonna be very difficult to win strikes, so therefore the only way to win strike is by then taking our fight to the citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:05:32] He had feelings about Mexicans, undocumented folks, and we, you know, through the language and terminology of ethnic studies, recognizing that as xenophobia. And recognizing that, okay, if, you, know, students amongst the class, like, who would not be represented within the movement? When students critique that you know they come in and are just kind of wary…and then others just, well, what do you mean? This is someone who’s always been revered and recognized within my community. And so then they begin to have that exchange and unpacking, which is powerful.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:06:16] I mean, it sounds like, you know, this critique was already happening in your classrooms around Cesar Chavez, but obviously on March 18th, the New York Times published this investigation that found, I mean very extensive evidence that he groomed and sexually abused girls who worked in the movement for years. And do you remember where you were when you found out this news?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:06:45] I’m thankful that one of my alumni students reached out to me. He offered me. Want to offer you some caution as you interact with the news these next days. Some information came out around Cesar Chavez. It was kind of one of those things, like I don’t know that I’m ready to even search up the information at that moment. So I allowed myself that space after school and I started to read and learn about and just feeling like a weight on your chest of — how devastating. Here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:07:30] I found that out on the 18th. I had the day off on the 19th for myself. And on the 20th, I went back to school. So I was able to go into the conversations with some rest. I said, I will respond if students say they’re ready. And my first period of that day, they said, “are we gonna talk about this?” And I said of course, what questions do you have? One of the in-class responses was, “so we were lied to this entire time.” “I chanted for him. I marched for him!” “We have these things at schools for him, what do you mean? Did he do no good?” “Why are they moving so fast to remove his monuments when we’ve heard of these Epstein cases and the files and the harms done here? Why isn’t accountability being held across?” And these were honest, in real time questions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:08:46] How do you respond to that?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:08:48] Your feelings are valid. And I don’t think you’re alone, feeling that alone right now. I had one student in particular who offered. I did not participate in elementary school on these marches. And I was shamed by my peers and by teachers and adults because my family and I had a critique of him already. We are not a monolith in how we regard a person, especially with rooted within the context of Eastside and the history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:09:20] And what are these that you brought? Just their written responses in the days?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:09:24] Yes. After the news? This is some of their art from watching a documentary. So after the news, we went into an overview of patriarchy, sexism, and intersectionality to preface and guide into watching Dolores. When we watched Dolores, there were also segments from her childhood and to her adulthood, and then they left with a sense of… Oh, look at these interactions between Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, and one in particular when he spoke about the role of women and that they are to be protected.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:02] Oh, gosh, wow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:10:04] And I asked myself, should I pause it? I said, are you all ready for this? Is this something that you wanna discuss? And they said that we do.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:10:13] It’s like amazing to see some of this art and some of the things that they have on here. I mean, this drawing of a woman. I’m assuming it’s Dolores Huerta covering her mouth. I feel like what you’re describing is your students very much, and also you as a teacher, really navigating this news in real time. How does this news change? How you’re thinking about teaching the history of Cesar Chavez. I mean, he will always be someone who played a big role in history, right? And who will always have this connection to San Jose, but how are you thinking about how you now acknowledge the harm?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:10:58] I’m thinking about the feeling of driving up here and seeing Cesar Chavez, Portola Avenue, right? There’s a responsibility, right, and shaping, and I think that’s where the agency of young people, when they shape a curriculum too, because ethnic studies within San Jose is a different experience of ethnic studies within San Francisco, within any other region. There’s deep grief. Challenging work and I think part of, you know, moving from this too was what are the necessary elements of a proper apology. How do we name the harm that occurs? How do we establish consent and young people want to practice and talk about that? I can only measure how I move forward as an educator being responsive to what students craft together with me.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:06] I know it’s been a couple of weeks now since this news, maybe for other people outside of East San Jose, this has sort of faded, you know? It’s not something they’re thinking about. Maybe they don’t have a street near them named after Cesar Chavez. But for you, teaching ethnic studies, being rooted in this place that’s so connected to him and his legacy, is this still coming up for you on the day-to-day?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Victoria Duran \u003c/strong>[00:12:33] Yes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:12:36] And you’re still navigating it. You’re still figuring it out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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The state is just one of many entities making these name changes, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/cesar-chavez-day-renamed/\">but for some cities\u003c/a> that might not happen as quickly.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Another man who was detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center \u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-03-30/mexican-mans-death-in-adelanto-ice-facility-is-fifth-incident-since-last-september\">died last week.\u003c/a> Officials with the Department of Homeland Security say they tried to save the man and later transported him to a hospital. But detainees say the man was denied medical treatment and died on site.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2 class=\"entry-title \">\u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-monuments/\">\u003cstrong>Cities are slowly erasing César Chávez’s name from streets\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>As Californians reel from \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/politics/2026/03/cesar-chavez-california-democrats/\">César Chávez’s sex abuse allegations\u003c/a>, city leaders across the state say they are considering removing his iconography by changing street names, libraries and monuments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From San Francisco to San Diego, local officials have said they support removing statues and renaming everything from parks to libraries after renowned activist Dolores Huerta, 95, said Chávez forced himself on her in encounters that led to unwanted pregnancies. But the process for renaming a street or monument is often slow, bureaucratic and costly, typically requiring a combination of internal investigations, community input and city council approval. Businesses, too, could face mounting costs from changing addresses listed on business cards and websites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The process to change a street name can move at a glacial pace, even under special circumstances. In San Diego, changing the city’s road names could be done with a petition with unanimous support from affected property owners and businesses that can be submitted to the city for approval. This option could take months to years, and is unlikely to happen because it would require buy-in from owners who would be volunteering to take on the disruption of renaming their home or business address.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another option is for the city council to vote on changing a street name. This would take place after the city has completed its own report on all the affected areas, according to San Diego logistics officer Bethany Bezak. The mayor and his staff would then coordinate with the city council to bring it up for approval. City officials could not say how long this process would take. A review of every road, park and building in Cesar Chávez’s name is in the works and could take weeks to complete, Bezak said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2 class=\"ArtP-headline\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-03-30/mexican-mans-death-in-adelanto-ice-facility-is-fifth-incident-since-last-september\">\u003cstrong>Man dies while being held at Adelanto ICE facility \u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A Mexican man died while being detained at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center last week. He is the fifth person to have died either while in custody at the facility or from health complications linked to its conditions since September 2025.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Department of Homeland Security officials said in a \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/criminal-illegal-alien-passes-away-ice-custody\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>statement\u003c/u>\u003c/a> that guards found Jose Guadalupe Ramos-Solano unconscious in his bunk bed on March 25. Onsite medical staff performed CPR, according to the statement, and Ramos was taken to a medical center in Victorville where he was pronounced dead at 9:30 p.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to DHS, Ramos was arrested in 2025 in Los Angeles county for possession of a controlled substance and theft of personal property and was convicted later that year. Federal Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents arrested Ramos on Feb. 23 during an operation in Torrance and transferred him to Adelanto.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ramos also received a complete health and physical evaluation during his intake screening at the Adelanto facility on Feb. 24, which identified that he had several medical issues including diabetes and hypertension. “He received constant medical care while he was in custody, including daily medication to treat his illness,” reads the DHS statement. DHS said staff immediately initiated life-saving procedures when he was found unresponsive and emphasized their “commitment to ensuring safe, secure, and humane environments” for people in detention.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But according to the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, detainees who called their rapid response hotline the morning after Ramos’ death said that guards didn’t respond until he was unconscious. According to ImmDef, detainees also witnessed Ramos having trouble breathing and witnessed him removing his shirt because \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://lataco.com/14th-ice-custody-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>he felt he was suffocating\u003c/u>\u003c/a>. For years, immigrant and disability rights groups have raised alarms about the conditions inside the Adelanto ICE Processing Center. Ismael Ayala-Uribe \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-09-24/former-daca-recipient-from-mexico-dies-inside-adelanto-detention-center-criticized-for-poor-conditions\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>died after being held at Adelanto\u003c/u>\u003c/a> for about a month last year. A few weeks later, Gabriel Garcia Aviles \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2025-11-06/federal-lawmakers-demand-answers-after-gabriel-garcia-aviles-dies-in-custody-at-adelanto-ice-processing-center\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>died from cardiac arrest\u003c/u>\u003c/a> just one week after being transferred to the Adelanto facility. \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://laist.com/brief/news/westlake-man-dies-at-adelanto-detention-facility-after-asking-for-medical-help-councilmember-says\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Alberto Gutierrez Reyes\u003c/u>\u003c/a> and \u003ca class=\"Link\" href=\"https://www.kvcrnews.org/local-news/2026-03-09/second-death-linked-to-adelanto-ice-facility-reported-in-two-weeks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u003cu>Irvin Cruz Nape\u003c/u>\u003c/a> both died after being detained there earlier this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c15dvdx32v0o\">has vowed to take action after the death of the Mexican national.\u003c/a> Mexico’s government is filing a legal brief as part of a class-action lawsuit alleging unconstitutional conditions at the facility. The number of immigrants in ICE custody is among the highest ever, with 68,000 held as of last month.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Reading about \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a> inspired Rosalinda Guillen to organize strawberry pickers in Salinas with the union he co-founded, the United Farm Workers, in the 1990s, after the late labor leader had died.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, as California has renamed Cesar Chavez Day — observed annually on March 31 — as Farmworkers Day — and begins \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">reconsidering how it honors\u003c/a> the civil rights icon, advocates like Guillen are confronting a deeper question: What happens to the farmworker movement when its most recognizable figure becomes a source of pain and controversy?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Guillen, 74, is worried the shattering of Chavez’s image by rape allegations \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">could demoralize organizers\u003c/a> and provide ammunition to agricultural corporations opposing raising wages for some of the nation’s lowest-paid laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Organizing for the rights of farmworkers anywhere in this country is one of the heaviest lifts that there is,” said Guillen, a former berry picker herself who \u003ca href=\"https://depts.washington.edu/civilr/guillen.htm\">helped reach\u003c/a> Washington state’s first union contract covering agricultural workers at a large winery in 1995.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Any type of benefit that we fight for or organize for, the pushback from the industry is just huge,” she said. “There’s such a huge power imbalance that everything matters for us as we continue to move forward.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Newly surfaced sexual abuse allegations against Chavez are \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">reverberating across California\u003c/a> and beyond, fueling a reckoning within farmworker communities while raising concerns among organizers that fallout could weaken already fragile efforts to build worker power, influence policy and protect some of the country’s most vulnerable laborers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077027\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077027\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/GettyImages-515109272-scaled-e1773940356467.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1443\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farm labor leader Cesar Chavez pickets outside the San Diego-area headquarters of Safeway markets. It was in protest over the arrest of 29 persons at a Delano, California, Safeway. \u003ccite>(Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The allegations that Chavez sexually abused UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta and underage girls decades ago unleashed grief and soul-searching among advocates. Across California, labor leaders and elected officials have emphasized that the movement must extend beyond any one individual, even as they grapple with the emotional toll of the revelations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One week after the allegations were made public by the \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, California lawmakers voted unanimously to rename a March 31 holiday on Chavez’s birthday as Farmworker Day, a move intended to shift recognition to the broader workforce rather than a single leader. Community leaders planned to remove Chavez’s likeness from school murals, statues and other public spaces.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For many farmworkers, the emotional impact has been disorienting. Some described learning about the allegations through word of mouth, social media or conversations at work, struggling to reconcile admiration for Chavez as an organizer with anger and sadness.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s going to harm us,” UFW member Maria Garcia Hernández said in Spanish, a Tulare County resident.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']The 52-year-old weighed whether the union would lose any influence in Sacramento or the rural communities where it operates, an open question. She worried about encountering antagonism or even aggression when volunteering as a union canvasser in Republican areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could undermine the politicians we support — for whom we go door-to-door for, so they can hold office and represent us,” said Garcia Hernández, a farmworker for more than 30 years. “Now, people won’t want to accept us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reckoning comes as the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to make it cheaper for employers to hire seasonal foreign agricultural workers through H-2A visas — a policy the Economic Policy Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-new-h-2a-wage-rule-will-radically-cut-the-wages-of-all-farmworkers-new-estimates-show-farmworkers-stand-to-lose-4-4-to-5-4-billion-annually-under-dols-updated-adverse-effec/\">estimates\u003c/a> could drive down wages for farmworkers nationwide by more than $4.4 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also signaled plans to ramp up deportations in a workforce where about half are undocumented, leaving many vulnerable to exploitation and reluctant to challenge employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a legitimate concern for a lot of folks to wonder what happens now,” said Eladio Bobadilla, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh who studies U.S. social movements. “How these particular revelations will impact people on the ground, the ordinary farm workers who are trying to find themselves in a better economic and social position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historian, who grew up with farmworker parents in Delano, the former UFW headquarters in the 1960s, said there were problems in how Chavez’s leadership was widely remembered and celebrated, even before the new accusations came to light. Chavez ran the union autocratically, purging critics and surrounding himself with loyalists, which weakened a movement that gave him too much power, Bobadilla said.\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>One crack in the movement was Chavez’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants, whom he considered strikebreakers. Under his reign, the UFW harassed, beat and reported undocumented people to immigration authorities in the 1970s, Bobadilla said. His forthcoming book explores nativism debates through the eyes of Latinos. Later, the UFW and Huerta emerged as strong advocates for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be essential to decouple the farm workers’ struggle from this one man,” he said. “How the union and how activists choose to do that, I don’t know, but I think it will be essential to really untangle themselves from this one person, something that should have been done decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, federal law has excluded agricultural workers from many protections afforded to other workers, including overtime pay and collective bargaining rights. Even in California, which expanded farmworkers’ rights, field crop laborers still often face deep poverty, wage theft by employers and dangerous working conditions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897789/california-largely-failed-to-enforce-worker-smoke-protections-under-bidens-new-osha-pick\">wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4657558/#:~:text=Table%20II,13%20times%20the%20risk\">far more likely to die\u003c/a> from heat-related illness than workers in other industries, and the U.S. still lacks federal regulations requiring employers to protect workers from heat hazards.[aside postID=news_12077059 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg']Today, most of the nation’s 2.2 million farmworkers are not unionized. The UFW counts about 10,000 members in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, a fraction of the roughly 60,000 in its heyday during the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond organizing, the UFW helped build a broader civil rights movement that trained generations of community activists, said Oliver Rosales, a historian at Bakersfield College in Delano. At its peak in the 1960s, the Delano grape boycott drew participation from an estimated 14 to 17 million Americans, reflecting the nationwide impact of the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the heart and soul of the Mexican-American civil rights movement,” Rosales said. “The farm worker movement ultimately, despite its long-run failures to organize farm workers within the union, inspired activism all across and well beyond the fields. That, to me, is its ultimate legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW continues to fight well-resourced grower associations, sometimes successfully, said Daniel Costa, who directs immigration policy at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored the H-2A wage rule analysis. The UFW helped beat a similar pay-cut policy during the first Trump administration, he added, which helped hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are punching above their weight for sure,” Costa said. “They’ve been able to leverage the attention that they’ve gotten over the years to really make a big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Romero, the first female UFW President, said she’s still grappling with the ramifications of the exposé about Chavez by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporters, who signaled more women may come forward with additional accusations. The union is reviewing training and policies for its 55 staffers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11941675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers union, speaks to marchers in Walnut Grove, Calif., before setting out on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Aug. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But controversy or not, politicians who support farmworkers understand their plight remains dire, she said, and just as important as it was three decades ago, when Chavez died. Strong opposition to the union is part of its history, she noted, just like the allegations against Chavez now are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never depended on growers appreciating their workforce and treating them with respect and dignity and paying them fairly. That’s why we exist,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union continues to organize workers and push for labor protections, including collective bargaining rights and safeguards against extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California replacing a holiday bearing Chavez’s name with one honoring farmworkers, Romero said the focus must stay on those still laboring in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It saddens me to know what happened with our founder, but it hasn’t changed my commitment or my understanding of who I serve, and that is farmworkers,” Romero said. “I don’t serve our history or Cesar Chavez.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>The 52-year-old weighed whether the union would lose any influence in Sacramento or the rural communities where it operates, an open question. She worried about encountering antagonism or even aggression when volunteering as a union canvasser in Republican areas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It could undermine the politicians we support — for whom we go door-to-door for, so they can hold office and represent us,” said Garcia Hernández, a farmworker for more than 30 years. “Now, people won’t want to accept us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reckoning comes as the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule to make it cheaper for employers to hire seasonal foreign agricultural workers through H-2A visas — a policy the Economic Policy Institute \u003ca href=\"https://www.epi.org/blog/trumps-new-h-2a-wage-rule-will-radically-cut-the-wages-of-all-farmworkers-new-estimates-show-farmworkers-stand-to-lose-4-4-to-5-4-billion-annually-under-dols-updated-adverse-effec/\">estimates\u003c/a> could drive down wages for farmworkers nationwide by more than $4.4 billion annually.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Trump administration has also signaled plans to ramp up deportations in a workforce where about half are undocumented, leaving many vulnerable to exploitation and reluctant to challenge employers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a legitimate concern for a lot of folks to wonder what happens now,” said Eladio Bobadilla, a historian at the University of Pittsburgh who studies U.S. social movements. “How these particular revelations will impact people on the ground, the ordinary farm workers who are trying to find themselves in a better economic and social position.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The historian, who grew up with farmworker parents in Delano, the former UFW headquarters in the 1960s, said there were problems in how Chavez’s leadership was widely remembered and celebrated, even before the new accusations came to light. Chavez ran the union autocratically, purging critics and surrounding himself with loyalists, which weakened a movement that gave him too much power, Bobadilla said.\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>One crack in the movement was Chavez’s hostility toward undocumented immigrants, whom he considered strikebreakers. Under his reign, the UFW harassed, beat and reported undocumented people to immigration authorities in the 1970s, Bobadilla said. His forthcoming book explores nativism debates through the eyes of Latinos. Later, the UFW and Huerta emerged as strong advocates for immigrant rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It will be essential to decouple the farm workers’ struggle from this one man,” he said. “How the union and how activists choose to do that, I don’t know, but I think it will be essential to really untangle themselves from this one person, something that should have been done decades ago.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the 1930s, federal law has excluded agricultural workers from many protections afforded to other workers, including overtime pay and collective bargaining rights. Even in California, which expanded farmworkers’ rights, field crop laborers still often face deep poverty, wage theft by employers and dangerous working conditions, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11897789/california-largely-failed-to-enforce-worker-smoke-protections-under-bidens-new-osha-pick\">wildfire smoke\u003c/a> and extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agricultural workers are \u003ca href=\"https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4657558/#:~:text=Table%20II,13%20times%20the%20risk\">far more likely to die\u003c/a> from heat-related illness than workers in other industries, and the U.S. still lacks federal regulations requiring employers to protect workers from heat hazards.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Today, most of the nation’s 2.2 million farmworkers are not unionized. The UFW counts about 10,000 members in California, Oregon, Washington and New York, a fraction of the roughly 60,000 in its heyday during the 1970s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Beyond organizing, the UFW helped build a broader civil rights movement that trained generations of community activists, said Oliver Rosales, a historian at Bakersfield College in Delano. At its peak in the 1960s, the Delano grape boycott drew participation from an estimated 14 to 17 million Americans, reflecting the nationwide impact of the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was like the heart and soul of the Mexican-American civil rights movement,” Rosales said. “The farm worker movement ultimately, despite its long-run failures to organize farm workers within the union, inspired activism all across and well beyond the fields. That, to me, is its ultimate legacy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The UFW continues to fight well-resourced grower associations, sometimes successfully, said Daniel Costa, who directs immigration policy at the Economic Policy Institute and co-authored the H-2A wage rule analysis. The UFW helped beat a similar pay-cut policy during the first Trump administration, he added, which helped hundreds of thousands of agricultural workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“They are punching above their weight for sure,” Costa said. “They’ve been able to leverage the attention that they’ve gotten over the years to really make a big impact.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Teresa Romero, the first female UFW President, said she’s still grappling with the ramifications of the exposé about Chavez by \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reporters, who signaled more women may come forward with additional accusations. The union is reviewing training and policies for its 55 staffers, she added.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_11941675\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11941675\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1278\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2023/02/RS58208_075_KQED_UnitedFarmWorkersMarch_08242022-qut-1536x1022.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Teresa Romero, President of the United Farm Workers union, speaks to marchers in Walnut Grove, Calif., before setting out on Day 22 of a 24-day “March for the Governor’s Signature” on Aug. 24, 2022. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>But controversy or not, politicians who support farmworkers understand their plight remains dire, she said, and just as important as it was three decades ago, when Chavez died. Strong opposition to the union is part of its history, she noted, just like the allegations against Chavez now are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We never depended on growers appreciating their workforce and treating them with respect and dignity and paying them fairly. That’s why we exist,” Romero said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The union continues to organize workers and push for labor protections, including collective bargaining rights and safeguards against extreme heat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With California replacing a holiday bearing Chavez’s name with one honoring farmworkers, Romero said the focus must stay on those still laboring in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It saddens me to know what happened with our founder, but it hasn’t changed my commitment or my understanding of who I serve, and that is farmworkers,” Romero said. “I don’t serve our history or Cesar Chavez.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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Among those who accused him was \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/dolores-huerta\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-led the movement that eventually became the United Farm Workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state’s effort to rename the holiday is part of a wave of other moves to\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\"> alter memorials honoring the man\u003c/a> who, in the 1960s and 1970s, helped secure better wages and working conditions for farmworkers and had been admired by many Democratic leaders. The swift and sweeping effort to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077159/east-san-jose-leaders-call-for-supporting-survivors-after-cesar-chavez-allegations\">erase Chavez’s name from public\u003c/a> life was previously unthinkable, as his status had only grown more iconic since his death in 1993.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Republican Sen. 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This is not about one narrative,” she said. “It’s about honoring generations of sacrifice, of resilience and hope.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077058\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077058\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/260319-CESAR-CHAVEZ-STREET-MD-01-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A street sign on Cesar Chavez Street in San Francisco on March 19, 2026. \u003ccite>(Martin do Nascimento/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limon said honoring farmworkers is especially important in the face of a series of federal raids across the state last year. A worker in her district \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/jaime-alanis-immigrant-farmworker-death-raid-c3c6f60a087f5f9f1d2b053fcef35b57\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">died after being chased\u003c/a> by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent last summer, Limon said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“His death is a reminder of how much farmworkers risk every day to put food on our table,” she said before the vote. “Our farmworkers remind us that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity and respect.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California was the first state to designate Chavez’s birthday, March 31, as a holiday to honor the civil rights leader nearly 30 years ago. The Legislature then, in 2000, passed a bill to make it an official paid day off for state employees and require that students learn about his legacy and his role in the labor movement in California. The legislation passed Thursday didn’t address the curriculum requirement. State leaders said they’re in conversation with school officials to adjust lesson plans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The California bill also passed in the Assembly with bipartisan support on Monday.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']“We cannot ignore wrongdoing and we should not continue to celebrate a single person when the movement itself is so much bigger,” Assemblymember Cecilia Aguiar-Curry said before the vote Monday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since the allegations came to light, California State University, Fresno, has covered up Chavez’s statue on campus, while cities like San Francisco, Los Angeles and Sacramento have taken steps to erase his name from public landmarks. Some advocated for Huerta’s name to replace Chavez’s, and several states already said they won’t observe the day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As his birthday approaches, cities across the country have remade or canceled annual celebrations to honor him. In Tucson last weekend, the annual Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta March and Rally were scaled back and rebranded. There was no march or car show, and it was billed instead as the Comunidad y Labor Unity Fair to focus more broadly on labor rights without mentioning Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Grand Junction, Colorado, the organizers of the annual event in Mesa County had already printed flyers and T-shirts, all bearing Chavez’s name. There has been a flurry of social media posts in recent days to let people know the event will go on Saturday as the Sí, Se Puede Celebration instead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In El Paso, Texas, March 31 will be celebrated as the Community and Labor Heritage Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Associated Press writer Susan Montoya Bryan contributed from Albuquerque, New Mexico.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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