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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. 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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. 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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\">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.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\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/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11998083\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Angelica Salas and other immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. (Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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/\">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\">“During that period of time, we had so much hope, and our message was out there saying to the world that we’re here and we exist and you can’t ignore us,” Huerta told KQED in 2012. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I really do believe that the only way that we can keep our democracy, the only way that we can get justice is by having people have a sense of their power,” she said. “This is the only way we can really achieve the goals that we need to make sure that we have a society that is equal.”\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/\">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\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\">“As heavy as our hearts are today with her passing, I believe that Dolores would want us to embrace her legacy by doing what she did, by organizing, by mobilizing, by helping to make sure that as many people, especially from the Latino community, get out and exercise their right to vote,” he said, adding that he believes Latino voters will participate in record numbers in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 3. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora del sindicato United Farm Workers, con una bandera sindical en la que se lee «Viva La Causa», hacia la década de 1970. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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/\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\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/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference after a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Today, we sadly mourn the loss of Dolores Huerta, a leader in the American labor movement and a champion for civil rights who led with courage and determination,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who hosted Huerta for her 90th birthday in the U.S. Capitol, said in a statement. “Dolores was a dear friend, and we all responded to her rallying cry, ‘Sí se puede,’ which inspired generations of Americans to believe in the power of collective action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Dolores Clara Fernández on April 10, 1930, to Juan Fernández and Alicia Chavez Fernández, in a small mining town in northern New Mexico, Huerta moved with her mother and brothers to Stockton during the Great Depression after her parents divorced. Her mother worked two jobs, bought a boarding house and taught her daughter that she had an obligation to help others — lessons Huerta later said shaped her feminism and commitment to service. Her father was a miner, farmworker and union activist who became a state lawmaker. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who acquired her last name through a marriage, said her mother’s independence inspired her to become a feminist. Huerta defied teachers who \u003ca href=\"https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/growing-tensions/dolores-huerta/\">questioned her achievements\u003c/a> in school because of her skin color, and men who said she should stay home and take care of children because of her gender.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally, California, 1975 or 1976. She wears a poncho with the UFW logo. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1962, Huerta and Chávez co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which would later be known as the United Farm Workers. Huerta, who served as UFW vice president until 1999, became a central strategist for the union, which thrust deplorable farm labor conditions — low pay, lack of toilets and drinking water, exposure to pesticides — into the national spotlight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At about 5 feet tall, Huerta did not shy away from conflict. She was arrested dozens of times by police during protests. At a 1988 rally seeking to curb growers’ use of toxic pesticides, club-wielding San Francisco officers sent the then-58-year-old grandmother to the hospital with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">broken ribs and a ruptured spleen\u003c/a>. After public outcry, including from San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, who visited Huerta at the hospital, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dolores-huerta-beaten-by-police-protest-san-francisco\">settled for $825,000\u003c/a> over the incident and changed its crowd control policies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Think of yourselves as the gardeners who are going to go out and sow the seeds of justice,” Huerta \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Dolores-Huerta#:~:text=She%20was%20active%20in%20numerous,earning%20a%20provisional%20teaching%20credential.\">told\u003c/a> hundreds of people at San Joaquin Delta College in 2018, where she earned a provisional teaching credential as a young high school graduate, when the college was known as University of the Pacific’s Stockton College. “And those seeds are going to flower, and the spring is going to come back. 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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.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\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/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-11998083\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/07/240730-CITIZENSHIP-FOR-ALL-TH-05-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Angelica Salas and other immigrant rights activists rally at the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on July 30, 2024. (Tyche Hendricks/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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/\">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\">“During that period of time, we had so much hope, and our message was out there saying to the world that we’re here and we exist and you can’t ignore us,” Huerta told KQED in 2012. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I really do believe that the only way that we can keep our democracy, the only way that we can get justice is by having people have a sense of their power,” she said. “This is the only way we can really achieve the goals that we need to make sure that we have a society that is equal.”\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/\">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\">Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012\u003c/a>, praising her determination and courage. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\">“As heavy as our hearts are today with her passing, I believe that Dolores would want us to embrace her legacy by doing what she did, by organizing, by mobilizing, by helping to make sure that as many people, especially from the Latino community, get out and exercise their right to vote,” he said, adding that he believes Latino voters will participate in record numbers in the upcoming midterm elections on Nov. 3. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12077340\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora del sindicato United Farm Workers, con una bandera sindical en la que se lee «Viva La Causa», hacia la década de 1970. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\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/\">film and radio series\u003c/a> that KQED collaborated on with Frontline, CIR, IRP and Univision. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“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\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/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12062675\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251103-NewsomProp50Rally-65-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi speaks during a press conference after a rally in support of Proposition 50 at IBEW Local 6 in San Francisco on Nov. 3, 2025. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Today, we sadly mourn the loss of Dolores Huerta, a leader in the American labor movement and a champion for civil rights who led with courage and determination,” Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, who hosted Huerta for her 90th birthday in the U.S. Capitol, said in a statement. “Dolores was a dear friend, and we all responded to her rallying cry, ‘Sí se puede,’ which inspired generations of Americans to believe in the power of collective action.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Born Dolores Clara Fernández on April 10, 1930, to Juan Fernández and Alicia Chavez Fernández, in a small mining town in northern New Mexico, Huerta moved with her mother and brothers to Stockton during the Great Depression after her parents divorced. Her mother worked two jobs, bought a boarding house and taught her daughter that she had an obligation to help others — lessons Huerta later said shaped her feminism and commitment to service. Her father was a miner, farmworker and union activist who became a state lawmaker. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta, who acquired her last name through a marriage, said her mother’s independence inspired her to become a feminist. Huerta defied teachers who \u003ca href=\"https://wams.nyhistory.org/growth-and-turmoil/growing-tensions/dolores-huerta/\">questioned her achievements\u003c/a> in school because of her skin color, and men who said she should stay home and take care of children because of her gender.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally, California, 1975 or 1976. She wears a poncho with the UFW logo. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 1962, Huerta and Chávez co-founded the National Farmworkers Association, which would later be known as the United Farm Workers. Huerta, who served as UFW vice president until 1999, became a central strategist for the union, which thrust deplorable farm labor conditions — low pay, lack of toilets and drinking water, exposure to pesticides — into the national spotlight. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">At about 5 feet tall, Huerta did not shy away from conflict. She was arrested dozens of times by police during protests. At a 1988 rally seeking to curb growers’ use of toxic pesticides, club-wielding San Francisco officers sent the then-58-year-old grandmother to the hospital with \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1988-09-16-mn-2389-story.html\">broken ribs and a ruptured spleen\u003c/a>. After public outcry, including from San Francisco Mayor Art Agnos, who visited Huerta at the hospital, the city \u003ca href=\"https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/dolores-huerta-beaten-by-police-protest-san-francisco\">settled for $825,000\u003c/a> over the incident and changed its crowd control policies. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Think of yourselves as the gardeners who are going to go out and sow the seeds of justice,” Huerta \u003ca href=\"https://www.cccco.edu/About-Us/Notable-Alumni/Dolores-Huerta#:~:text=She%20was%20active%20in%20numerous,earning%20a%20provisional%20teaching%20credential.\">told\u003c/a> hundreds of people at San Joaquin Delta College in 2018, where she earned a provisional teaching credential as a young high school graduate, when the college was known as University of the Pacific’s Stockton College. “And those seeds are going to flower, and the spring is going to come back. But we know we have to go out there and do all the work.”\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/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106175\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/261023-PROP50VICTORYLAP-33-BL-KQED-7273678d-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks at a rally alongside California Democratic Party members, labor leaders and advocates in San Francisco on Oct. 23, 2026. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gov. Gavin Newsom ordered flags flown at half-staff in honor of Huerta. The governor and First Partner Jennifer Siebel Newsom said the \u003ca href=\"https://archive.gov.ca.gov/archive/gov39/2013/01/23/news17905/index.html\">California Hall of Fame member\u003c/a> “fought for gender equity, workers’ rights and civil rights, paving the way for generations to come, and teaching people what was possible with determination and heart.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“Dolores represented the best of us,” they said in a statement. “California — and the United States — would not be what we are today without her resolute spirit, her passion for justice and fairness, and her commitment to those overlooked and forgotten.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Erik Olvera, a spokesperson for Huerta’s family, said they plan to announce a public memorial in the coming days. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/sasha-khokha\">\u003cem>Sasha Khokha\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union to improve working conditions in the nation’s fruit and vegetable fields and coined the phrase “Sí, se puede!” that became a widespread rallying cry, has died. She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“This whole perception that the employers themselves have put out there that somehow a farm worker is below someone’s level of competence or someone’s level of pride that they have kind of created that mentality,” Huerta said then. “Unfortunately that still sits there.” \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Her work over the decades earned her a number of accolades, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor. When then-President Barack Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his 2008 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Huerta sent shockwaves through the Latino community when she revealed that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by the farmworker movement’s co-founder, César Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years and long after he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner was Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta said she had kept silent for so long because she feared that coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel all the progress made for workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked during a 2026 interview with the news organization Latino USA about keeping the secret, Huerta said: “It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I’ll say it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homegrown activism\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who went on to win a seat in the state Legislature. Her parents divorced when she was 3, and her mother took her and her brothers to California.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Immersed in a melting pot of Mexican, Filipino, African American, Japanese and Chinese working families, Huerta learned from her mother — who owned a restaurant and hotel — about independence, compassion and activism.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was a young, energetic elementary school teacher in the farm-rich San Joaquin Valley when she decided to answer another calling after growing frustrated by her students’ poor living conditions.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“I couldn’t stand seeing kids come to class hungry and needing shoes,” she said in a 2017 PBS Independent Lens documentary on her life. “I thought I could do more by organizing farmworkers than by trying to teach their hungry children.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s early work with a civil rights group in Stockton resulted in her meeting Chavez. The two wanted to focus more on the plight of farmworkers, so in 1962 they started the National Farm Workers Association, which became United Farm Workers of America a few years later. She was a key leader and negotiator for the union for years.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She was among those who joined Filipino grape pickers on the picket line in what became the five-year “Delano Grape Strike.” With Chavez, she negotiated collective bargaining agreements and contracts with big growers, winning the first health and benefit plans for farmworkers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chavez, who died in 1993, once described her as fearless, committed to the cause and tough when it came to negotiations.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">On the campaign trail\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She met U.S. Sen. Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts during his visit to Delano in 1968 and became a volunteer on his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Huerta was on stage with Kennedy after he won the California primary, and he publicly thanked her moments before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing for farmworkers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating. In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. Bush’s opposition to the UFW grape boycott during his visit to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1564\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12106902\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-160x125.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/10/DoloresHuertaGetty-f533bcc7-1536x1201.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">American labor activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (UFW) Dolores Huerta speaks on stage during a UFW rally in California, circa 1975 or 1976. (Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Caught in a crowd, she was struck by a police officer’s baton, suffered three broken ribs and a pulverized spleen, and required more than a dozen blood transfusions. She reached a settlement with the city to resolve her claims.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">After a long recovery, Huerta shifted focus and hit the road to campaign for women’s rights and encourage Latinas to run for office.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She also campaigned for Democratic Presidents Bill Clinton, Obama and Joe Biden. California Gov. Gavin Newsom considered her a close friend.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Fueled by courage\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Emilio Huerta, one of Dolores’ 13 children, once pointed to his mom’s courage during an interview, saying it was one of the most significant drivers of her life’s work.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">“To dedicate your life to building a dream of a union for farmworkers, to take on agriculture, which to this day is still a powerhouse … That took a lot of guts,” he had said.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta learned the art of lobbying politicians. She secured financial aid for the unemployed and disability insurance for California farmworkers. 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She was 96.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s family said in a statement through her foundation that she died Wednesday at home.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She kept a busy schedule well into her 90s, marching in protests and speaking in cities across the country about race, poverty, LGBTQ+ and women’s rights on behalf of her Bakersfield, California-based foundation.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta’s resolve cemented her place in history as one of the nation’s most influential labor leaders, civil rights icons and feminist activists. Her three-word Spanish-language slogan — which translates to “Yes, it can be done” — was grounded in the belief that people could effect change.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta told KQED’s \u003cem>The California Report\u003c/em> in 2025, when the Trump administration ramped up immigration enforcement in California — hitting agricultural communities like Bakersfield first, she noted — that farm workers still had “an awful lot of pride” for the work they do. \u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cfigure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12044395\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-160x111.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/DoloresHuertaHistoricPortraitGetty-1536x1070.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\" />\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Portrait of labor activist Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers group, with a union flag that reads “Viva La Causa,” ca.1970s. 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When then-President Barack Obama presented the award in 2012, he praised Huerta as a tenacious leader and joked that he had stolen her slogan for his 2008 campaign.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This year, Huerta sent shockwaves through the Latino community when she revealed that she was sexually abused in the 1960s by the farmworker movement’s co-founder, César Chavez, leading to the birth of two children, a secret she kept for 60 years and long after he died.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">From the early 1970s on, Huerta’s life partner was Richard Chavez, César’s brother, and together they had four kids. She also had seven children from two earlier marriages.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta said she had kept silent for so long because she feared that coming forward would compromise her life’s work and unravel all the progress made for workers.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When asked during a 2026 interview with the news organization Latino USA about keeping the secret, Huerta said: “It was my personal pain, it was my personal problem and, you know, I think it was worth it because it was my cross to bear. I’ll say it that way.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003ch2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Homegrown activism\u003c/h2>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was born Dolores Clara Fernandez in 1930 in Dawson, New Mexico. Her father was a miner and union activist who went on to win a seat in the state Legislature. 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Robert Kennedy of Massachusetts during his visit to Delano in 1968 and became a volunteer on his presidential campaign, registering Mexican Americans in California to vote. Huerta was on stage with Kennedy after he won the California primary, and he publicly thanked her moments before he was shot.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The assassination devastated Huerta, but she kept organizing for farmworkers’ rights.\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Huerta was jailed 22 times for union demonstrating. In 1988, she was seriously injured while protesting Republican presidential candidate George H.W. 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So the main thing to do is to give them this love for justice — and that is the greatest gift I think that any of us can have.”\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003cem>KQED’s\u003c/em> \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/skennedy\">\u003cem>Samantha Kennedy\u003c/em>\u003c/a> \u003cem>and Associated Press journalist Brian Melley contributed to this report. Former AP journalist Russell Contreras also contributed reporting previously for this story.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\n\n\u003cp class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077073/cesar-chavez-was-a-hero-to-farmworkers-now-they-confront-the-pain-of-alleged-abuse\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A una semana de que se dio a conocer la noticia de las \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">acusaciones de abuso sexual\u003c/a> contra César Chávez, los trabajadores agrícolas de California se enfrentaban a la difícil tarea de asimilar y conciliar los inquietantes detalles con la imagen de un ícono laboral y defensor de los derechos civiles a quien muchos consideraban un héroe.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Por teléfono, las personas describían sentirse atónitas tras enterarse de la noticia a través de la llamada de un vecino, conversaciones con familiares, reuniones de trabajo o las redes sociales.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es casi imposible creer lo que está pasando”, dijo María García Hernández, trabajadora agrícola desde hace más de 30 años. Esta mujer de 52 años, que vive en el condado de Tulare, afirmó que tanto ella como sus padres se beneficiaron del activismo de Chávez, quien apoyó la última gran ley de reforma migratoria que se adoptó en la década de 1980.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Todavía no me lo puedo creer del todo, que una persona tan valiente que luchó por todos nosotros para garantizar que pudiéramos tener sombra, agua, baños limpios y mejores condiciones laborales, que una persona tan dedicada al pueblo… pudiera hacer algo así”, afirmó García, que se dedica a sembrar y cosechar plantas en un trabajo representado por el Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas (o UFW por sus siglas en inglés), el sindicato que Chávez y Dolores Huerta establecieron juntos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, que ahora tiene 95 años, reveló por primera vez públicamente que Chávez la manipuló para mantener relaciones sexuales con ella y la violó en la década de 1960, y declaró al \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> que ambos encuentros la dejaron embarazada. La investigación de varios años del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">publicada el 18 de marzo\u003c/a>, también detalla las acusaciones de dos mujeres, hijas de organizadores sindicales, que afirmaron que Chávez las abusó sexualmente cuando eran niñas en la década de 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuando Rolando Hernández se enteró por primera vez de las acusaciones a través de sus compañeros de trabajo durante una reunión de formación laboral, el extrabajador agrícola se quedó desconcertado. Pensó que la conversación debía de referirse a otra persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disculpen, pero ¿de qué César Chávez están hablando?”, preguntó Hernández, de 33 años, en la reunión. “Porque yo solo sé de un César Chávez que luchó por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas para que se les pagaran mejores salarios y hubiese menos injusticias en los campos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese mismo”, fue la respuesta, lo que dejó a Hernández sin palabras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue un golpe muy duro”, dijo Hernández, quien trabaja para organización sin fines de lucro para trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Fresno. Él comenzó a cosechar chiles en Arizona a los 14 años de edad antes de trabajar con viñedos y naranjales en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reacción a las revelaciones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">fue casi inmediata\u003c/a>. Los legisladores de California planean cambiar el nombre de la festividad estatal dedicada a Chávez por el de “Día de los Trabajadores Agrícolas”. Ciudades, estados y organizaciones, incluida la UFW, tomaron medidas para posponer o cancelar las celebraciones previstas para el 31 de marzo en honor al cumpleaños del líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense. Las autoridades están considerando \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">cambiar el nombre de calles\u003c/a>, parques, bibliotecas, escuelas y otros edificios que llevan el nombre de Chávez.[aside label='Más en español' tag='kqed-en-espanol']Durante décadas, la colaboración entre Chávez y Huerta para promover los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas se ha conmemorado en libros de texto infantiles, biografías, películas y desfiles. Ahora, varias madres, García entre ellas, se sienten por la falta de medidas para prevenir y responder a las presuntas agresiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo siento mucho por ellas. Lo que les ha pasado me duele en lo más profundo del alma” dijo García. “Si es verdad lo que pasó, ¿por qué no se habló hace mucho tiempo? ¿Por qué hasta ahora?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez falleció en 1993. Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, que ahora tiene 95 años, reveló por primera vez públicamente que Chávez la manipuló para mantener relaciones sexuales con ella y la violó en la década de 1960, y declaró al \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> que ambos encuentros la dejaron embarazada. La investigación de varios años del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">publicada el 18 de marzo\u003c/a>, también detalla las acusaciones de dos mujeres, hijas de organizadores sindicales, que afirmaron que Chávez las abusó sexualmente cuando eran niñas en la década de 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077475\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077475\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-picks-grapes-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Cuando Rolando Hernández se enteró por primera vez de las acusaciones a través de sus compañeros de trabajo durante una reunión de formación laboral, el extrabajador agrícola se quedó desconcertado. Pensó que la conversación debía de referirse a otra persona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disculpen, pero ¿de qué César Chávez están hablando?”, preguntó Hernández, de 33 años, en la reunión. “Porque yo solo sé de un César Chávez que luchó por los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas para que se les pagaran mejores salarios y hubiese menos injusticias en los campos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Ese mismo”, fue la respuesta, lo que dejó a Hernández sin palabras.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Fue un golpe muy duro”, dijo Hernández, quien trabaja para organización sin fines de lucro para trabajadores agrícolas con sede en Fresno. Él comenzó a cosechar chiles en Arizona a los 14 años de edad antes de trabajar con viñedos y naranjales en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La reacción a las revelaciones \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077336/como-reacciono-california-a-las-acusaciones-de-supuesta-conducta-sexual-inapropiada-de-cesar-chavez\">fue casi inmediata\u003c/a>. Los legisladores de California planean cambiar el nombre de la festividad estatal dedicada a Chávez por el de “Día de los Trabajadores Agrícolas”. Ciudades, estados y organizaciones, incluida la UFW, tomaron medidas para posponer o cancelar las celebraciones previstas para el 31 de marzo en honor al cumpleaños del líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense. Las autoridades están considerando \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077059/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\">cambiar el nombre de calles\u003c/a>, parques, bibliotecas, escuelas y otros edificios que llevan el nombre de Chávez.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Durante décadas, la colaboración entre Chávez y Huerta para promover los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas se ha conmemorado en libros de texto infantiles, biografías, películas y desfiles. Ahora, varias madres, García entre ellas, se sienten por la falta de medidas para prevenir y responder a las presuntas agresiones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Lo siento mucho por ellas. Lo que les ha pasado me duele en lo más profundo del alma” dijo García. “Si es verdad lo que pasó, ¿por qué no se habló hace mucho tiempo? ¿Por qué hasta ahora?”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Chávez falleció en 1993. Huerta dijo que guardó silencio durante 60 años porque temía dañar la reputación de un hombre que se convirtió en el rostro del movimiento por los derechos civiles de los mexicoamericanos, conocido por los boicots, las marchas y las huelgas a nivel nacional que lograron avances significativos para miles de trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Guardé este secreto durante tanto tiempo porque construir el movimiento y garantizar los derechos de los trabajadores agrícolas ha sido el trabajo de mi vida”, dijo Huerta en un comunicado tras la publicación de la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>. “Nunca me he identificado como víctima, pero ahora entiendo que soy una víctimas: de la violencia, del abuso sexual, de hombres dominantes que me veían a mí, y a otras mujeres, como propiedad o como objetos que controlar”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Luz Gallegos, cuyas experiencias de niña acompañando a sus padres a los mítines y marchas de la UFW la inspiraron a convertirse en defensora de los trabajadores agrícolas, afirmó sentirse devastada por las revelaciones. Gallegos, que actualmente es directora del Centro Legal TODEC, una organización sin fines de lucro dedicada a los inmigrantes y trabajadores agrícolas en la región de Inland Empire y el Valle de Coachella, elogió la valentía de Huerta y del resto de las víctimas que cargaron con su dolor antes de decidir hablar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nos solidarizamos con nuestra compañera Dolores Huerta y a las víctimas. Lo que se ha revelado es muy doloroso y profundamente perturbador”, dijo Gallegos, con la voz entrecortada. “Sabemos de primera mano que el silencio nunca ha protegido a nuestras comunidades de trabajadores agrícolas, y ningún movimiento ni la justicia pueden pedir a la gente que guarde silencio ante los abusos, nunca lo han hecho y nunca lo harán”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077476\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077476\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Mandarin-orchard-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un huerto de mandarinos al oeste de Fresno, California, el 21 de marzo de 2017. \u003ccite>(Alexandra Hall/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Ella, al igual que otras personas que hablaron con KQED horas después de conocer la noticia, afirmó que quieren que este momento de rendición de cuentas contribuya a evitar abusos similares en el futuro. Esperan que las acusaciones contra Chávez no socaven los logros del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, construidos por muchos trabajadores y sus familias a lo largo de décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“En este momento, estamos sumidos en el dolor. Siento un gran dolor en el pecho, en la mente, en el corazón”, dijo Gallegos. “Al mismo tiempo, es una reflexión de que no podemos quedarnos callados, no podemos dejar que nuestro movimiento termine…asegurando a nuestra comunidad que su voz importa y que nadie debería soportar ningún tipo de abuso”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>García, que empezó a acompañar a sus padres a trabajar en la agricultura desde los 10 años de edad, dijo que el acoso sexual por parte de los contratistas y supervisores agrícolas era algo frecuente. Según contó, la despidieron de varios trabajos como represalia por no aceptar las insinuaciones de los hombres. Sin embargo, afiliarse a la UFW le ayudó a mejorar sus condiciones laborales y a sentirse respaldada para quejarse si surgían problemas, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077477\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077477\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>García afirmó que, si algún miembro del sindicato o cualquier otra persona tenía conocimiento de las acusaciones contra Chávez y no las investigó o bien ignoró deliberadamente a las víctimas menores de edad, eso debería tener consecuencias.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si esas personas siguen por ahí, si siguen con vida, entonces deben rendir cuentas”, afirmó.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Fuera de un tribunal de Fresno, la presidenta del sindicato, Teresa Romero, pidió al público que respetara la privacidad de las víctimas que se atrevieron a denunciar, según \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">CalMatters\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No aprobamos las acciones de César Chávez”, dijo Romero. “Está mal”.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Este artículo fue traducido por la periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/mpena/\">María Peña\u003c/a> y esa traducción fue editada por el periodista \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ccabreralomeli\">Carlos Cabrera-Lomelí\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076859/california-reacts-to-shocking-cesar-chavez-sexual-misconduct-revelations\">Read in English\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones de \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12076825/unspecified-allegations-prompt-cancellation-of-cesar-chavez-celebrations\">conducta sexual inapropiada\u003c/a> contra el ícono sindical \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">César Chávez\u003c/a> están causando una gran conmoción en California, donde el fundador del movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas ha sido venerado durante décadas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Las acusaciones, que salieron a la luz en una investigación del periódico \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> publicada el 18 de marzo, acusan a Chávez de un patrón de conducta sexual inapropiada contra niñas y mujeres que trabajaron junto a él en el movimiento por los derechos civiles de los latinos en las décadas de 1960 y 1970.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dos mujeres, ambas de 66 años en la actualidad, contaron \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">al periódico\u003c/a> que habían sido agredidas repetidamente por Chávez durante años en la década de 1970, cuando ellas tenían 12 y 13 años respectivamente, y él más de 40. La investigación también detalla las acusaciones formuladas contra Chávez por otras mujeres, entre ellas \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12054312/dolores-huerta-on-the-state-of-workers-rights-in-california\">Dolores Huerta\u003c/a>, la cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés). Huerta reveló que Chávez la violó y la presionó para que mantuviera relaciones sexuales en dos ocasiones distintas en la década de 1960.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La noticia ha suscitado una amplia reacción entre los líderes sindicales y políticos de toda el Área de Bahía, donde el nombre de Chávez figura en escuelas, calles y parques. Chávez inició su carrera como activista comunitario en San José e impulsó huelgas de campesinos por toda California, el primer estado en celebrar el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2000.\u003cbr>\n[ad fullwidth]\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. La Fundación César Chávez también informó que había tenido conocimiento de “acusaciones alarmantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una estatua de César E. Chávez se alza mientras los miembros del comité conmemorativo del Valle de San Fernando celebran el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2021, en San Fernando, California. Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Como líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense, crecí con la historia del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas: sobre el sacrificio, la fe y la convicción de que los trabajadores merecen dignidad”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero permítanme ser claro: nuestro movimiento nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”, continuó. “Siempre ha girado en torno a los trabajadores filipinos, mexicanos, afroestadounidenses e inmigrantes, que se unen y exigen respeto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones ya anunciaron que cancelarán o evaluarán los actos previstos en honor a Chávez en San José, incluida una cena conmemorativa y varios eventos programados en el centro de acción comunitaria César E. Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. Los organizadores del desfile y festival anual del Día de César Chávez y Dolores Huerta de San Francisco anunciaron que el evento pasaría a llamarse sólo en honor a Huerta, cuyo cumpleaños es el 10 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Viva la causa! Apoya el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Eva Royale en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La investigación publicada la semana pasada incluye acusaciones de al menos una docena de mujeres que afirman haber sido \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">perseguidas, acosadas o agredidas\u003c/a> por Chávez cuando este se encontraba en la cima de su carrera, entre ellas Ana Murguía, quien declaró al\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> que fue convocada por primera vez a la oficina de Chávez cuando tenía 13 años y vivía con su familia en La Paz. Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. Las acciones de César no reflejan los valores de nuestra comunidad y nuestro movimiento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés) (conocida en inglés como UFW), con una bandera sindical en la que se lee “Viva La Causa”, hacia la década de 1970. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El día que se publicó la investigación, muchos en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco aún se estaban enterando de las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hingel dijo que recuerda cuando la calle César Chávez pasó a llamarse así en 1995, sustituyendo a la calle Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siempre lo consideré un pionero extraordinario”, declaró a KQED. “Me temo que estoy un poco desilusionado. 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Afrontar verdades dolorosas y garantizar la rendición de cuentas es esencial para honrar los valores que defiende el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas en su conjunto, valores arraigados en la dignidad y la justicia para todos”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La oficina de Padilla indicó que tiene previsto cambiar el nombre y reformular la legislación sobre el parque nacional para honrar a los trabajadores agrícolas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los hijos de Chávez también expresaron su apoyo a las víctimas.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Nuestra familia está conmocionada y entristecida al conocer la noticia de que nuestro padre, César Chávez, cometió actos de conducta sexual inapropiada con mujeres y menores hace casi 50 años”, escribieron en un comunicado. “Como una familia comprometida con los valores de la equidad y la justicia, rendimos homenaje a las voces de quienes se sienten ignorados y dan a conocer los casos de abuso sexual”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Esto resulta muy doloroso para nuestra familia. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cbr>\n“Estoy enojado. Estoy perturbado. Y estoy pensando en lo que se tiene que hacer en este momento”, declaró Rudy González, miembro del comité ejecutivo del Consejo Laboral de San Francisco, la semana pasada, cuando empezaron a circular rumores sobre las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El día antes de que se publicara la investigación del \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>, la Unión de Campesinos anunció que cancelaría todas las actividades previstas para celebrar el Día de César Chávez, el 31 de marzo, a raíz de las “acusaciones de comportamiento abusivo”. La Fundación César Chávez también informó que había tenido conocimiento de “acusaciones alarmantes”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077338\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077338\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Chavez-Statue-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Una estatua de César E. Chávez se alza mientras los miembros del comité conmemorativo del Valle de San Fernando celebran el Día de César Chávez el 31 de marzo de 2021, en San Fernando, California. Chávez era conocido por emplear medios no violentos para conseguir mejores condiciones laborales para miles de trabajadores agrícolas que sufrían salarios bajos y condiciones de trabajo muy duras. En 1962, fundó la Asociación Nacional de Trabajadores Agrícolas, que más tarde se convirtió en Unión de Campesinos. \u003ccite>(Patrick T. Fallon/AFP vía Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Como líder sindical mexicano-estadounidense, crecí con la historia del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas: sobre el sacrificio, la fe y la convicción de que los trabajadores merecen dignidad”, dijo González.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Pero permítanme ser claro: nuestro movimiento nunca ha girado en torno a un solo hombre”, continuó. “Siempre ha girado en torno a los trabajadores filipinos, mexicanos, afroestadounidenses e inmigrantes, que se unen y exigen respeto”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Varias organizaciones ya anunciaron que cancelarán o evaluarán los actos previstos en honor a Chávez en San José, incluida una cena conmemorativa y varios eventos programados en el centro de acción comunitaria César E. Chávez de la Universidad Estatal de San José.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El alcalde de San José Matt Mahan anunció que la ciudad cancelaba todos los actos previstos relacionados con el día festivo estatal y que su equipo “buscará formas de honrar el legado del movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas sin celebrar a personas que causaron un daño tan profundo a la comunidad”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Reconocemos que los vínculos de Chávez con San José conllevan la responsabilidad de no causar más trauma a las víctimas”, declaró en un comunicado.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El condado de Contra Costa también indicó que estaba “revisando los detalles” de su celebración anual prevista para el próximo mes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siguiendo el ejemplo del Sindicato de Trabajadores Agrícolas, el condado de Contra Costa sigue enfocado en apoyar a los trabajadores agrícolas y en promover la equidad, la seguridad y las oportunidades en la agricultura”, declaró la portavoz Kristi Jourdan por correo electrónico. “Nuestro objetivo es garantizar que este evento sea un homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas, ponga de relieve cuestiones urgentes como los salarios justos y las condiciones de trabajo seguras, y refleje nuestros valores compartidos de dignidad e inclusión”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>El Caucus Hispano del Congreso afirmó que este año rendirá homenaje a los trabajadores agrícolas y a su “arduo y esencial trabajo” el 31 de marzo, fecha reconocida a nivel nacional como el Día de César Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“No podemos celebrar a un hombre, independientemente de sus logros, si ha hecho daño a mujeres y niños de formas tan viles”, declaró el Caucus en un comunicado. “Aunque es desgarrador que se revele que los líderes tienen defectos imperdonables, una sociedad justa tiene el deber de exigir que se responsabilice a los abusadores sin excepción”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Un movimiento se sustenta en sus valores, no en la mala conducta de un individuo”, continuó. Los organizadores del desfile y festival anual del Día de César Chávez y Dolores Huerta de San Francisco anunciaron que el evento pasaría a llamarse sólo en honor a Huerta, cuyo cumpleaños es el 10 de abril.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“¡Viva la causa! Apoya el movimiento de los trabajadores agrícolas”, dijo Eva Royale en un correo electrónico.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>La investigación publicada la semana pasada incluye acusaciones de al menos una docena de mujeres que afirman haber sido \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-assault-allegations-takeaways.html\">perseguidas, acosadas o agredidas\u003c/a> por Chávez cuando este se encontraba en la cima de su carrera, entre ellas Ana Murguía, quien declaró al\u003cem> New York Times\u003c/em> que fue convocada por primera vez a la oficina de Chávez cuando tenía 13 años y vivía con su familia en La Paz. Afirmó que, durante los cuatro años siguientes, mantuvo docenas de encuentros sexuales con él.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077339\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077339\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Farmworker-1-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Un trabajador agrícola recolecta uvas en un campo de Fresno el 3 de septiembre de 2025. \u003ccite>(Gina Castro para KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Debra Rojas declaró a The Times que tenía 12 años cuando Chávez la tocó de forma inapropiada por primera vez, y que, cuando tenía 15, él la violó en un motel durante la Marcha de las mil Millas de la UFW en California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta, cofundadora de la UFW junto a Chávez y su estrecha aliada al frente del Movimiento de Trabajadores Agrícolas, declaró en un \u003ca href=\"https://medium.com/@dolores_huerta/march-18-2026-e74c20430555\">comunicado\u003c/a> que tuvo dos encuentros sexuales no consensuados con Chávez en la década de 1960, ambos resultando en embarazos que ocultó al público.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta afirmó que no había hablado de sus experiencias durante los últimos 60 años porque “creía que revelar la verdad perjudicaría al movimiento de trabajadores agrícolas por el que he luchado toda mi vida”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cuento mi historia porque \u003cem>The New York Times\u003c/em> ha indicado que no fui la única, que hubo otras”, dijo Huerta. “Saber que él hizo daño a chicas jóvenes me repugna. Me duele el corazón por todas las que sufrieron solas y en silencio durante años. No hay palabras lo suficientemente fuertes para condenar esas acciones deplorables que él cometió. Las acciones de César no reflejan los valores de nuestra comunidad y nuestro movimiento”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077340\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1536px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077340\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1536\" height=\"1070\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/Dolores-Huerta-160x111.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1536px) 100vw, 1536px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retrato de la activista sindical Dolores Huerta, cofundadora de la Unión de Campesinos (o UFW en inglés) (conocida en inglés como UFW), con una bandera sindical en la que se lee “Viva La Causa”, hacia la década de 1970. \u003ccite>(Cathy Murphy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>El día que se publicó la investigación, muchos en el distrito de la Misión de San Francisco aún se estaban enterando de las acusaciones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Richard Hingel dijo que recuerda cuando la calle César Chávez pasó a llamarse así en 1995, sustituyendo a la calle Army.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Siempre lo consideré un pionero extraordinario”, declaró a KQED. “Me temo que estoy un poco desilusionado. He oído esta historia tantas veces sobre líderes carismáticos en el poder que abusan de las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Es triste, y me lo creo”, dijo Sharon Garland. “Mi abuelo era campesino y abusó de mí cuando era niña… en aquella época no había muchas consecuencias y la gente no creía a las mujeres”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>María Menjibar dijo que recordaba el bien que hizo Chávez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Para nosotros es un ídolo, alguien que lucha por todos los derechos”, dijo. “No puedo decir nada en su contra”.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Joshua Arce, presidente de la Comisión de servicios públicos de San Francisco, expresó su apoyo a Huerta.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>On \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/cesar-chavez\">Cesar Chavez\u003c/a>‘s birthday in 1995, a crowd of hundreds gathered in San Francisco’s Mission District to commemorate new street signs, installed along the 3-mile thoroughfare stretching from the Bayview waterfront to Noe Valley.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>City supervisors voted unanimously that year to change the name of Army Street to Cesar Chavez Street in honor of the labor leader, who had died two years prior.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Cesar Chavez lives in our hearts, and from now on he will live on this street,” Frank Martin Del Campo, a spokesperson for the local 790 United Public Employees, told the \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/image/1231549583/?match=1&terms=cesar%20chavez%20street\">\u003cem>San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many Latino San Franciscans saw the dedication as an acknowledgment of the farmworker movement Chavez helped build.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But after allegations surfaced this week that the civil rights icon sexually abused multiple young girls, and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, as he led the movement in the 1960s and ’70s, politicians have quickly proposed stripping his name from \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077014/california-weighs-renaming-parks-streets-after-cesar-chavez-amid-abuse-allegations\">dozens of streets, schools, parks and monuments\u003c/a>, and the state holiday in his honor at the end of the month.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The revelations have raised questions about how to further the movement’s legacy, without Chavez as the figurehead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1415\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-160x113.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Examiner_Cesar_Chavez_1-1536x1087.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The ballot measure to strip Chavez’s name from the street failed by a wide margin in November 1995, as reported in the San Francisco Examiner, on Nov. 8, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Examiner via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He was a symbol,” San Francisco State University labor historian John Logan said, “for a recognition of the farmworker movement, of the Chicano civil rights movement.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This [is an] incredibly important social movement and incredibly important worker movement,” he said, adding that now, it will be important “to find a way of trying to recognize those things without using his name.”\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Reckoning with abuse\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>On Wednesday, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">\u003cem>The\u003c/em> \u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> published an investigation revealing accounts from two women, now in their 60s, who said that they had been assaulted repeatedly by Chavez for years in the 1970s, beginning when they were 12 and 13, and he was in his 40s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta came forward with her own allegations that on two separate occasions in the 1960s, Chavez had pressured her into intercourse and later raped her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within hours, local officials and organizations across California launched efforts to strip Chavez’s name from public view. Sacramento’s mayor appointed city council members to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorMcCarty/status/2034359028583960962\">rename \u003c/a>Cesar Chavez Plaza in the state capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University on June 24, 2005. \u003ccite>(Brian Trejo/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fresno officials set a meeting for this week to \u003ca href=\"https://fresno.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1402336&GUID=DEFF00CA-9492-4094-B66A-E64AB03FC28F&Options=info%7C&Search=\">remove\u003c/a> Cesar Chavez Boulevard street signs and groups at San Francisco State and Sonoma State University announced plans to shroud his image and name on campus murals and on buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón announced legislation that would rename the state holiday honoring Chavez at the end of March to Farmworkers Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment calls for honesty. It calls for reflection. And it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on,” Rivas said, speaking on the California Assembly floor on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. Labor activist César Chávez has been accused in an investigation of sexual abuse of women and minors. \u003ccite>(Benjamin Fanjoy/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While San Francisco leaders haven’t taken any concrete steps to strip Chavez’s name from the street, or from the public elementary school renamed in his honor around the same time, it seems more than likely in the coming weeks.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“My office will support community efforts to remove Cesar Chavez’s name from any District 9 institutions,” said Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents the Mission, which includes both sites.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I think there should be no hesitation,” said former Supervisor Susan Leal, who served from 1993 to 1997, and helped lead the renaming effort.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>A divisive renaming\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Leal said the decision to name Army Street after Chavez was meant to acknowledge “unrecognized work of a lot of farmworkers.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The meaning of having Cesar Chavez Street is that it signifies we have a place here too,” Maria Paya, a grocer in the Mission District, \u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-30-mn-62893-story.html\">told the \u003cem>Los Angeles Times\u003c/em>\u003c/a> that year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But by the time the new street signs were unveiled that April, the decision had already sparked controversy, and a campaign to repeal the name change. Opponents put a citywide measure on that year’s general election ballot to restore the road’s name to Army Street.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077136\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1854px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077136\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1854\" height=\"1390\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2.jpg 1854w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/SF_Chron_Cesar_Chavez_2-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1854px) 100vw, 1854px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Opponents of the ballot measure to restore Cesar Chavez Street to Army Street celebrate with a caravan after it failed in 1995, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle on Nov. 9, 1995. \u003ccite>(The San Francisco Chronicle via Newspapers.com)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The battle became one of the most divisive that election cycle, according to newspaper reports at the time\u003cem>,\u003c/em> pitting residents of the then-predominantly Latino Mission District, backed by thousands of United Farm Workers volunteers who traveled from as far as Bakersfield to campaign, against wealthy, majority white Noe Valley residents and small business owners who said they had an affinity for their addresses, and the 140-year-old Army Street name.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The renaming came at a time of heightened anti-immigrant sentiment, Leal said, not unlike today. The year prior, California voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045374/from-save-our-state-to-sanctuary-californias-immigration-views-have-shifted-dramatically\">Proposition 187\u003c/a>, which aimed to block undocumented immigrants from accessing most health care services, public education and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you would come up with another San Franciscan who was not of the farmworker movement, I think he might’ve gotten more support. It was not unlike Prop. 187,” Leal said.[aside postID=news_12077073 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty2.jpg']“It was very personal about him being Latino,” she said. “Some of the comments were, ‘He’s not even a citizen.’” Chavez was born in Yuma, Arizona.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the city voted by a wide margin to uphold the new name that November, it was seen as an affirmation of support not just for Chavez, but for Latino San Franciscans, and the farmworker movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was more than him,” Leal said. “It was about Dolores. It was about, for a lot Latino people … pushing back,” against efforts like Proposition 187.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If San Francisco did launch an effort to rename Cesar Chavez Street, Leal said she’d hope to see that sentiment remain.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It should be named for something connected to that movement. Probably Dolores Huerta,” Leal told KQED.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plans already in motion to scrub Chavez’s name from other public places are also taking similar considerations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The farmworker movement was never ever about one man,” Rivas said Thursday. “It was built by tens of thousands of workers. People who labored in the fields. People who organized, who sacrificed, and who stood up when it was hard.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now, we have a responsibility not just to remember that movement, but to carry it forward with integrity,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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Sacramento’s mayor appointed city council members to \u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MayorMcCarty/status/2034359028583960962\">rename \u003c/a>Cesar Chavez Plaza in the state capital.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12077043\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12077043\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/chavezstudentcenter-1536x1152.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Cesar Chavez Student Center at San Francisco State University on June 24, 2005. \u003ccite>(Brian Trejo/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Fresno officials set a meeting for this week to \u003ca href=\"https://fresno.legistar.com/MeetingDetail.aspx?ID=1402336&GUID=DEFF00CA-9492-4094-B66A-E64AB03FC28F&Options=info%7C&Search=\">remove\u003c/a> Cesar Chavez Boulevard street signs and groups at San Francisco State and Sonoma State University announced plans to shroud his image and name on campus murals and on buildings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Early Thursday, California Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas and Senate President Pro Tempore Monique Limón announced legislation that would rename the state holiday honoring Chavez at the end of March to Farmworkers Day.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This moment calls for honesty. It calls for reflection. And it calls for a renewed commitment to the values that the farmworker movement was built on,” Rivas said, speaking on the California Assembly floor on Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12076930\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12076930\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2026/03/CesarChavezGetty1-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pedestrians walk past César Chávez Elementary School on March 18, 2026, in San Francisco, California. 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The year prior, California voters passed \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12045374/from-save-our-state-to-sanctuary-californias-immigration-views-have-shifted-dramatically\">Proposition 187\u003c/a>, which aimed to block undocumented immigrants from accessing most health care services, public education and social services.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If you would come up with another San Franciscan who was not of the farmworker movement, I think he might’ve gotten more support. It was not unlike Prop. 187,” Leal said.\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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While our team has reviewed it, there may be errors.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:00:00] I’m Ericka Cruz-Guevarra and welcome to The Bay, local news to keep you rooted. Back when I was a student at San Francisco State, I used to walk by the Cesar Chavez Student Center almost every day. There’s also this mural above the entrance of the building of him carrying a torch. Chavez died in 1993, but he’s memorialized and honored on dozens of buildings, streets, murals, and even schools that celebrate his work as the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, which fought and won historic labor protections for farm workers. Growing up here, we learned that Cesar Chavez’s story is a California story, that it’s our history. Now California is reckoning with the more painful parts of Chavez’ legacy, after the New York Times published an investigation into allegations that Chavez sexually abused women and girls. Citing dozens of interviews, union records, emails, and photographs. Two women now in their 60s, Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas, say Chavez groomed and sexually abused them when they were children. Chavez’ prominent ally, Dolores Huerta, also says Chavez sexually assaulted her twice, but was discouraged from speaking out for years. Because of the stain it could leave on his legacy and the broader farm worker movement. Now Californians around the state say, it’s time to learn from this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luz Gallegos \u003c/strong>[00:01:49] Silence has never protected our farm worker communities. And we know that no movement for justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse, not then and not now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:02] Today we hear from organizers and farm workers about how the allegations against Cesar Chavez have rocked California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Paz-Cedillos \u003c/strong>[00:02:20] Good afternoon. My name is Jessica Paz-Cedillos. I am the CEO here at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. I wish we were gathering under different circumstances, but we’re not, and this is a heavy moment. First and foremost, we stand with survivors. We believe you. This moment forces us to hold two truths at once. The farm workers movement transformed lives. And at the same time, we are confronting firsthand accounts of harm that cannot be ignored or minimized. For us here in East San Jose, this is personal. This is Cesar Chavez’s neighborhood. That proximity makes this moment more painful, but also more important. Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it. We have to face it. Movements for justice are not immune from harm. And survivors should never have to choose between telling the truth and protecting a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] So Maritza, will you just say your first, last name, titles, and so we can hear how you sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:03:56] Maritza Maldonado, founder and executive director of Amigos Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment. So this hits very personal to me as a child who was raised in East San Jose, a proud, proud East Sider. Cesar Chavez was our hero. It’s who we looked up to. And so to read what we heard this week has been beyond devastating. Every book that I read about Cesar and a historian of the movement has been really hard. The women as a woman of color and the campesinas that endured, our hearts are with them and we stand firmly with them in solidarity and know that this movement will continue by the people here, that it was never about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] And Amigos de Guadalupe purchased Cesar Chavez’s, was his, the home he lived in for a portion of his youth. Am I correct? Not too far from here, right? Tell us about that home. Tell us why your organization bought that home and tell us what comes next with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] So obviously, it’s to lift up the Chavez legacy, right? It was important for me, for Amigos, to have that be part of the legacy of the San Jose. That said, that house will remain the people’s house. We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place for healing, a place for, a place of love. We are in deep, deep grief. Trust has been broken. But what I do know is “Si Se Puede” lives here every single day. The motto that Dolores Huerta said, “Si Se Puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] My name is Maria García Hernández.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I have been working in the fields for more than 30 years. I have worked on the entire grape harvest, from the clearing, the weeding, and the pruning of the grapevines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] Yo estoy todavía de no creerlo porque…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:35] I still don’t believe it because such a courageous person who fought for all of us, for everything we have, because if this person hadn’t fought, if Cesar Chavez hadn’t fight to give us so much protection, to give a shade, water, clean bathrooms, better working conditions, better salaries, a person so dedicated to people, so humane, it’s hard to believe what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Es dificil creer…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] I also know Mrs. Dolores Huerta. My respects to her as well. I highly value her because we have had the opportunity to accompany her at events that she has also done to support us, so I am also super grateful to her too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] Es demasiado…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] This is too much. If it’s true what happened, why wasn’t it talked about long ago? Why now? Mr. Cesar Chavez, may he rest in peace, has been dead already for many years. I think this should have been brought up a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] Antes de este tema…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] I feel very sorry for them, truly, I was not there at the time, but if I was, if I had known, we could have done something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rolando Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Rolando Hernández,Yo creo que mucho de las veces…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] People keep quiet to protect the reputation of a leader. But I really think it’s something that you have to talk about. Because because otherwise, the root of the problem will always be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:44] We continue to fight so workers have better salaries. Because I truly believe that farm workers are still not valued enough for their work. They are still paid very unfairly. Maybe you get sick with something like diabetes, you’re dealing with all the stress of not getting paid enough, where you can’t even pay rent, the electricity bill, gas or even food. The cost of living keeps going up, but what workers are getting paid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] I am worried about how much we’ve gained. The innocent should not pay for what the sinners have done. In other words, those of us who are still alive and fighting should not have to pay for what that person did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luz Gallegos \u003c/strong>[00:09:51] I’m going through a lot of heaviness in my heart, a lot of pain. Hi, I’m Luz Gallegos with TODEC legal center. It’s a very challenging day today. It has been a very challenging, a very heavy day for myself. Definitely was caught by surprise by the news. Also the extraordinary courage from Dolores and the survivors to carry this truth for so many decades, and to still choose to speak on it and to speak up on it. As women, as community, we stand in solidarity with our compañera Dolores and the survivors. And again, what has been revealed is very painful and deeply disturbing. Silence has never protected our farm worker communities. And we know that no movement for justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse, not then and not now. And we know it’s not a betrayal. By standing with our survivors through this time of pain, it is a commitment to our values as a movement. It’s painful to learn what our compañeras have endured these decades and what they kept secret and in their hearts. And only they know the pain, right? Because they’re the ones that went through it, but we were in solidarity with them because their pain is our pain, their struggle is our struggle, and we can’t stop.\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. Back when I was a student at San Francisco State, I used to walk by the Cesar Chavez Student Center almost every day. There’s also this mural above the entrance of the building of him carrying a torch. Chavez died in 1993, but he’s memorialized and honored on dozens of buildings, streets, murals, and even schools that celebrate his work as the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, which fought and won historic labor protections for farm workers. Growing up here, we learned that Cesar Chavez’s story is a California story, that it’s our history. Now California is reckoning with the more painful parts of Chavez’ legacy, after the New York Times published an investigation into allegations that Chavez sexually abused women and girls. Citing dozens of interviews, union records, emails, and photographs. Two women now in their 60s, Ana Murguia and Debra Rojas, say Chavez groomed and sexually abused them when they were children. Chavez’ prominent ally, Dolores Huerta, also says Chavez sexually assaulted her twice, but was discouraged from speaking out for years. Because of the stain it could leave on his legacy and the broader farm worker movement. Now Californians around the state say, it’s time to learn from this.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Luz Gallegos \u003c/strong>[00:01:49] Silence has never protected our farm worker communities. And we know that no movement for justice can ask people to stay silent about abuse, not then and not now.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Ericka Cruz Guevarra \u003c/strong>[00:02:02] Today we hear from organizers and farm workers about how the allegations against Cesar Chavez have rocked California.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Jessica Paz-Cedillos \u003c/strong>[00:02:20] Good afternoon. My name is Jessica Paz-Cedillos. I am the CEO here at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. I wish we were gathering under different circumstances, but we’re not, and this is a heavy moment. First and foremost, we stand with survivors. We believe you. This moment forces us to hold two truths at once. The farm workers movement transformed lives. And at the same time, we are confronting firsthand accounts of harm that cannot be ignored or minimized. For us here in East San Jose, this is personal. This is Cesar Chavez’s neighborhood. That proximity makes this moment more painful, but also more important. Because we don’t have the luxury of distancing ourselves from it. We have to face it. Movements for justice are not immune from harm. And survivors should never have to choose between telling the truth and protecting a movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:03:51] So Maritza, will you just say your first, last name, titles, and so we can hear how you sound.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:03:56] Maritza Maldonado, founder and executive director of Amigos Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment. So this hits very personal to me as a child who was raised in East San Jose, a proud, proud East Sider. Cesar Chavez was our hero. It’s who we looked up to. And so to read what we heard this week has been beyond devastating. Every book that I read about Cesar and a historian of the movement has been really hard. The women as a woman of color and the campesinas that endured, our hearts are with them and we stand firmly with them in solidarity and know that this movement will continue by the people here, that it was never about one man.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Joseph Geha \u003c/strong>[00:04:53] And Amigos de Guadalupe purchased Cesar Chavez’s, was his, the home he lived in for a portion of his youth. Am I correct? Not too far from here, right? Tell us about that home. Tell us why your organization bought that home and tell us what comes next with that.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maritza Maldonado \u003c/strong>[00:05:08] So obviously, it’s to lift up the Chavez legacy, right? It was important for me, for Amigos, to have that be part of the legacy of the San Jose. That said, that house will remain the people’s house. We are deciding what we’re going to name it, but it will remain a place for community organizers, a place for healing, a place for, a place of love. We are in deep, deep grief. Trust has been broken. But what I do know is “Si Se Puede” lives here every single day. The motto that Dolores Huerta said, “Si Se Puede.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:14] My name is Maria García Hernández.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:21] I have been working in the fields for more than 30 years. I have worked on the entire grape harvest, from the clearing, the weeding, and the pruning of the grapevines.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:06:30] Yo estoy todavía de no creerlo porque…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:06:35] I still don’t believe it because such a courageous person who fought for all of us, for everything we have, because if this person hadn’t fought, if Cesar Chavez hadn’t fight to give us so much protection, to give a shade, water, clean bathrooms, better working conditions, better salaries, a person so dedicated to people, so humane, it’s hard to believe what’s going on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:00] Es dificil creer…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:09] I also know Mrs. Dolores Huerta. My respects to her as well. I highly value her because we have had the opportunity to accompany her at events that she has also done to support us, so I am also super grateful to her too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:22] Es demasiado…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:31] This is too much. If it’s true what happened, why wasn’t it talked about long ago? Why now? Mr. Cesar Chavez, may he rest in peace, has been dead already for many years. I think this should have been brought up a long time ago.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Maria Garcia Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:07:45] Antes de este tema…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:07:53] I feel very sorry for them, truly, I was not there at the time, but if I was, if I had known, we could have done something, right?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Rolando Hernandez \u003c/strong>[00:08:16] Rolando Hernández,Yo creo que mucho de las veces…\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:26] People keep quiet to protect the reputation of a leader. But I really think it’s something that you have to talk about. Because because otherwise, the root of the problem will always be there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:08:44] We continue to fight so workers have better salaries. Because I truly believe that farm workers are still not valued enough for their work. They are still paid very unfairly. Maybe you get sick with something like diabetes, you’re dealing with all the stress of not getting paid enough, where you can’t even pay rent, the electricity bill, gas or even food. The cost of living keeps going up, but what workers are getting paid?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>English Voiceover \u003c/strong>[00:09:28] I am worried about how much we’ve gained. The innocent should not pay for what the sinners have done. In other words, those of us who are still alive and fighting should not have to pay for what that person did.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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They say Chavez sexually abused them, in some cases, when they were children.\u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Following the harrowing accounts from these women, \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/justice/2026/03/cesar-chavez-ufw-romero/\">the United Farm Workers union\u003c/a> is now distancing itself from Chavez, its co-founder. \u003c/span>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003ch2>\u003cstrong>A moment of reflection for Californians following publication of allegations against Cesar Chavez\u003c/strong>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Labor rights activist Dolores Huerta revealed she was among \u003ca href=\"https://apnews.com/article/latino-leaders-speak-out-about-chavez-allegations-f1b24d3c6bdf71b326b63d51f80ea957\">women and girls who say they were sexually abused by César Chavez\u003c/a>, the widely admired Latino icon who brought to light the struggles of farmhands while leading the United Farm Workers union.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stunning allegations, \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/18/us/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\">reported by the New York Times\u003c/a>, against Chavez, who died more than three decades ago, drew immediate calls to alter memorials honoring the man who in the 1960s helped secure better wages and working conditions for farmworkers and has been long \u003cspan class=\"LinkEnhancement\">\u003ca class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" href=\"https://apnews.com/article/cesar-chavez-legacy-biden-white-house-b582b1e7b43ccd25d61e1fdad9607db1\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\">revered by many Democratic leaders\u003c/a>\u003c/span> in the U.S.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles Times Columnist Gustavo Arellano said the alleged victims need to be believed. “Every victim or survivor of sexual abuse and assault has their own path to follow. I covered the Catholic Church sex abuse scandal for decades, so I very well know, and I’m not surprised that something like this would take as long as it did, because in some cases, some of these allegations never come up,” he said. “So I know that there are some people who are saying that the timing is suspicious, but people need to disabuse themselves of those thoughts. And we need to first and foremost center our thoughts on those survivors who have come up to share their story. The reckoning, this is something that’s going to go on for days, weeks, months, years, even an entire generation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Municipalities across California are grappling with whether to \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12077014/california-weighs-renaming-parks-streets-after-cesar-chavez-amid-abuse-allegations\">rename dozens of buildings, parks and roads\u003c/a> currently honoring him. Government leaders from across the state have called for some of these name changes, including in Fresno and Sacramento. In Bakersfield, city officials announced Wednesday they would pause efforts to rename a street after Chavez. 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"content": "\u003cp>On the first Saturday night in August, the sun set on the Chabot Space and Science Center in \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/oakland\">Oakland\u003c/a>, a steel-framed, futuristic campus reaching toward the sky.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At one of the entrances, a line formed. Spilling down the center’s stairs were patrons dressed head to toe in glittering silvers and golds, some in radiant fabrics that beamed like Technicolor.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A passerby might have mistaken the scene for a mini Met Gala — women sashaying in golden sun-shaped crowns, men in silver suits that caught the light and scattered it in a cascade.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But this wasn’t the Met Gala — it was the 2025 Black Futures Ball, an annual fundraiser hosted by the East Oakland Youth Development Center. Since its founding in 1978, the EOYDC has stood as a beacon of hope and support for Oakland’s youth, offering resources in career development, wellness, college preparation and arts programming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The gala took place amid a rising tide of investment in East Oakland’s future — most notably, a $100 million community-led initiative known as \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12021914/rise-east-unlocks-100-million-to-reimagine-east-oakland\">Rise East\u003c/a>, aimed at reversing generations of disinvestment. Powered by local leaders and a national funder, the effort centers Black and brown families and aims to transform a 40-block stretch of East Oakland through long-term support for housing, education and public safety.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051410\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_01096_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guests dance together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The EOYDC is part of the 40×40 Council, a coalition of community-based organizations working to improve health and quality of life in East Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One key EOYDC initiative is the Pathway to College and Careers Program, which helps prospective college students navigate the application process and provides financial scholarships to support their journeys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This was the fourth year of the Black Futures Ball, which the EOYDC hosts to celebrate those scholars and raise funds to help ensure future generations dream big.[aside postID=news_12021914 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2024/12/241010-RiseEastDeepDown-07-BL-672x372.jpg']On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>On Aug. 2, the past, present and future converged at the gala with the theme Space is the Place — Visionary Dreamwork. Many donors and attendees were once EOYDC participants themselves, giving youth a glimpse of what might await them — futures already mapped among the stars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Selena Wilson, the EOYDC’s CEO, said the ball’s theme — while futuristic — is grounded in Oakland’s history. She said the 1974 Afrofuturist film \u003cem>Space is the Place \u003c/em>inspired her\u003cem>,\u003c/em> which starred \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13931735/sun-ra-where-to-begin\">jazz legend Sun Ra\u003c/a> and was largely shot in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We wanted to lean into radical imagination,” Wilson told KQED. “Making space for joy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The theme’s double meaning, Wilson said, is about embracing ambition and breaking boundaries, while also making room to uplift and celebrate each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To Jada White, a rising senior at UCLA and an EOYDC scholar, the theme takes on many meanings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051407\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051407 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00907_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L-R) Kahnetah Thomas, Shoshonie Torres, Erin Dixon, and Alexandria Rivera pose for a portrait together at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“As a Black student, I think I have to remind myself that my journey has a lot more obstacles than somebody else,” White, 21, said. “Me being in the same room as them is a feat within itself.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Still, White added, it’s not just about taking up space — it’s about “making sure that we’re allowing space for others like us to enter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“That’s why it’s really important to have events like this, because most of these donors are Black scholars,” White said. “They were in our shoes before, and I think that seeing that as a scholar is kind of inspiring and endearing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051388\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051388\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00394_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlene Richardson (left) and Charlette Richardson (right), also known as The LoveLove Twins, pose for a portrait at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Leila Fite, an incoming freshman at Temple University, said radical imagination helped shape her future in public health. At Skyline High School, where many of the scholars attended, Fite did her senior project on Black maternal health and was connected to resources through the EOYDC.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I got to talk to a whole bunch of Black women in very different, specific medical fields that I had never even heard of,” Fite said. “It really just opened up a whole new scope of possibilities for me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Inside the banquet hall, students shared their college plans and majors with families and donors before hearing from guest speakers. This year’s honorary guests included Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and Dolores Huerta, the labor leader and activist whose name is synonymous with the national farm workers movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051394\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051394\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00563_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee (left) and Dolores Huerta (right) pose for a photo at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Tears fell when a scholarship was announced in the memory of Marvin Boomer, a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12043904/oakland-watchdogs-say-chp-should-follow-opd-pursuit-policy-following-deadly-crash\">beloved Castlemont High School teacher\u003c/a> who was killed in June when he was struck by a driver fleeing from the California Highway Patrol.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tears fell again when Rev. Dereca Blackmon led a libation ceremony.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She called forth the ancestors “not just to remember them, but to invite them to be with us right here, right now, to bless us as we’ve carved new spaces for our children and our communities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also invoked “the young ones who are yet to be born, that they may call our names with pride.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051392\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051392\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00517_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee walks up to the stage with a mayoral proclamation at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Lee presented the Ida Louise Jackson Award. She knew the trailblazing educator and philanthropist personally and called the moment “Sankofa” — a Ghanaian concept of reflecting on one’s history and heritage to look toward the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Just know that those who had the vision are proud,” Lee told the scholars. “You all are making sure that the world survives, and you are secure in the world, for the future.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When Huerta, now 95, made her way to the podium, the room fell silent.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051393\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051393\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00554_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ryan Nicole Austin (left) helps Dolores Huerta (right) walk to the stage at the Black Futures Ball banquet hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>She reminded the audience of the importance of education and awareness — especially in a time when the federal government has placed those keystone values on a chopping block. Racial and religious divisions, she said, are bolstered by withholding education.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Si Se Puede,” Huerta said, and the entire room bellowed back: “YES YOU CAN!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other speakers included Tajai and DJ Toure from the Oakland hip-hop collective Hieroglyphics. Tajai described “the beautiful vortex” of movements born in the Bay Area — the Black Panthers, hippies, disability rights — and the homegrown talent that Oakland has gifted the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Y’all are the people that are gonna save us,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051398\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12051398\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/250802-AFROFUTURES_00748_TV-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Charlay King hugs a friend at the Black Futures Ball hosted by The East Oakland Youth Development Center at Chabot Space and Science Center in Oakland on Aug. 2, 2025. \u003ccite>(Tâm Vũ/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>After the speeches and fundraising, the crowd poured onto the dance floor. Lights bounced off space helmets and NASA decals. A brilliant dome glowed overhead.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The crowd, blending in a mix of silver and neon, traditional African dress and elaborate face paint, bestows upon the present an insignia, the past marrying the future. Local Black and POC artisans filled tables with jewelry, desserts and more in celebration of abundance, art and joy.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alyce Kareem, an incoming sophomore at Xavier University of Louisiana, has big dreams. 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"content": "\u003cp>California immigrant advocates are making a final push to persuade state lawmakers to pass a bill that would end the practice of transferring noncitizens to immigration custody when they’re released from jail or prison — legislation that would go further than California’s existing so-called “sanctuary state” law.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill, known as the VISION Act, overwhelmingly passed the state Assembly last year but fell short of the 21 votes needed for Senate passage, so it carried over as a “two-year bill.” Now it’s awaiting a floor vote in the state Senate before the legislative session concludes at the end of August.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill’s backers are looking for support from three more senators, and they’ve been \u003ca href=\"https://vietrise.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/38/2022/08/2022.08.16_OC-Elected-Officials-Support-the-VISION-Act.pdf\">sending letters\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://sanfernandosun.com/2022/08/10/valley-organizations-urge-hertzberg-to-support-the-vision-act/\">holding rallies\u003c/a> in the districts of several Democrats still on the fence. If the session ends without a vote, the bill will die.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late Tuesday, the authors made amendments to \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">AB 937\u003c/a> that they hope will address concerns from Democratic senators who pulled back their support last year over opposition from law enforcement groups. One change would allow the state parole board to notify ICE if an immigrant who was released on parole is later convicted of a serious new offense.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At a recent press conference, Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo, the bill’s author, emphasized that it would still require incarcerated immigrants to serve their sentences. But under the VISION Act, state and local officials would no longer hand them over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement upon release, unless served with a warrant issued by a judge. State and local officials would also stop tracking the birthplace of offenders in their criminal records systems.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“If individuals have served their time, have paid their debt to society, regardless of where you are born you have a right to restart your life,” she said. “That is the societal contract that we have. And California should not be in the business of collaborating with ICE.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On average, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billAnalysisClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB937\">nearly 1,600 people come out of state prison each year with an immigration hold\u003c/a> that leads to their transfer to ICE to be deported, according to an estimate by state Senate staff.[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"California Assemblymember Wendy Carrillo\"]‘If individuals have served their time, have paid their debt to society, regardless of where you are born, you have a right to restart your life. That is the societal contract that we have.’[/pullquote]The VISION Act would close a loophole in an earlier law, the 2018 California Values Act, \u003ca href=\"https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB54\">SB 54\u003c/a>, sometimes known as the “sanctuary state” law, which limited police and sheriff’s departments from collaborating with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, with exceptions for a wide range of crimes, from violent felonies to certain misdemeanors. The Values Act didn’t prohibit transfers to ICE by prisons, but the VISION Act would.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police and sheriff’s groups oppose the bill. They point to federal law, which says immigrants, even those who are legal with green cards, can be deported if they’ve committed a so-called “aggravated felony,” from a long list of crimes that includes some misdemeanors. And they say it’s safer for ICE to take custody of a person inside a locked facility than to arrest them at their home or a public location.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This proposed legislation puts local law enforcement in a no-win situation, having to choose between state and federal laws,” the Police Officers Research Association of California said in a statement last year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And in a joint statement, \u003ca href=\"https://ct3.blob.core.windows.net/21blobs/58984f34-e091-4208-93db-4e804b666038\">law enforcement groups noted that the VISION Act would prevent them\u003c/a> from notifying immigration authorities of the release of people who had served sentences for crimes such as rape, murder and torture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We are also not arguing that immigrants somehow pose any more threat than citizens or asking to involve immigration authorities in low-level offenses. However, there should be a point, in the most egregious cases, where we do not provide protections for dangerous persons from enforcement,” the statement said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But advocates for the bill say it’s not California’s responsibility to do the work of immigration enforcement, and ICE can still bring deportation proceedings against someone whether or not they’re incarcerated. They point to other states — including Oregon and Illinois — which have passed laws to end most prison-to-ICE transfers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In California, we’re always proud to say that we’re the first when it comes to social justice,” said veteran civil rights and labor organizer Dolores Huerta. “Well, now we’re not the first, because other states have already taken care of this issue. … It’s time for us to act.”[pullquote align=\"right\" size=\"medium\" citation=\"Sandra Castañeda, Los Angeles resident\"]‘I thought I would never say this, but prison is better than this place.’[/pullquote]Huerta called the transfers “double jeopardy” because people often wind up spending additional months or years in ICE detention, where it’s more difficult to mount a defense against deportation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Los Angeles resident Sandra Castañeda lived through that. When her conviction for a murder she didn’t commit was vacated last summer, she thought she’d be going home after 19 years in prison. Instead, she was handed to ICE and held for a year in a private detention center in rural Georgia. She said she saw many women there give up their cases in desperation and accept deportation, because they couldn’t bear the conditions.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I thought I would never say this, but prison is better than this place,” Castañeda said last month in a phone call from the Stewart Detention Center in Lumpkin, Ga. “In prison you have a routine. You have a job, there’s classes, there’s things to do. … Here, you’re stuck in a dorm with 23 people, all day, every day.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda was released this month with the help of a pro bono lawyer, Anoop Prasad of the Asian Law Caucus in San Francisco. An immigration judge ruled that she’s not deportable because she no longer has an aggravated felony on her record.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Castañeda’s conviction was wiped away by a California judge after the Legislature eliminated the state’s “felony murder” rule, which had allowed her to be charged with murder because she was driving a car out of which a fatal shot was fired, even though she had no indication that her passenger would shoot. But Prasad noted that Castañeda also earned a commutation from Gov. Gavin Newsom because of her exemplary behavior in prison.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the governor on the one hand to be like, ‘I’m granting clemency. You’re a model for other incarcerated people.’ And then in the next breath to say, ‘Oh, call up ICE and have this person deported,’” makes no sense, Prasad said. “California needs to end this hypocrisy of working with an agency that’s so cruel.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A UC San Diego poll last summer found \u003ca href=\"https://usipc.ucsd.edu/publications/usipc-vision-act-final-20210803.pdf\">two-thirds of California voters supported the VISION Act\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The bill could go to a vote in the state Senate next week. Newsom has not given any indication of whether he will sign the bill if it reaches his desk.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Aug. 26 Correction: A previous version of this story mischaracterized SB 54, the California Values Act, saying it allowed police and sheriffs to collaborate with ICE only in cases of immigrants convicted of serious or violent crimes. 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"content": "\u003cp>A group of San Francisco residents is campaigning to change the name of a major city street to honor a famous California labor leader and civil rights activist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sign.moveon.org/petitions/rename-south-van-ness-as-dolores-huerta-boulevard?bucket&source=facebook-share-button&time=1579398959&utm_campaign&utm_source=facebook&share=7760f4cc-e5ea-4828-bde1-cd1390af1c5d&fbclid=IwAR2hy78R7jqGIop_1VFnAoBygt9qlJ2lWDJZemCOfdMIIdxeZAx4Sh0SgOU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online petition\u003c/a> to rename South Van Ness Avenue to Dolores Huerta Boulevard has so far attracted over 1,100 signatures.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local resident Sean Scullion is behind the petition. He says it’s high time the city honored Huerta, who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>) with Cesar Chavez and fought tirelessly for decades on behalf of workers rights, in the same way it’s honored Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was around San Francisco when Cesar Chavez Street was named,” Scullion says of the thoroughfare formerly known as Army Street. “And I always thought it was strange that Dolores didn’t get a street as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scullion, a resident of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, says he’s known of Chavez and Huerta since he was a child, and that his parents participated in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. Huerta led the fight against table grape growers in Delano, California to stop the exploitation of farm workers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Over the years, I’ve read news articles about her and always considered her a personal hero,” Scullion says. “I saw the documentary \u003cem>Dolores\u003c/em> and went to hear her speak at the Herbst Theater.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"DOLORES Official Theatrical Trailer\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https://www.youtube.com/embed/Unzr9kiFScQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen>\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some public officials are aware of the campaign, and supportive of it—in principle.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Dolores Huerta is one of my all-time heroes, and it’s exciting and fitting that people are raising the idea of renaming a major street running through the Latino Cultural District in her honor,” says \u003ca href=\"https://sfbos.org/supervisor-ronen-district-9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen\u003c/a>, in whose jurisdiction the proposed street name change partially falls. “I would be happy to carry it forward if we see broad community support for the change.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Huerta is 89 years old. The Presidential Medal of Freedom honoree already has a square named after her in Los Angeles, as well as several schools in California and beyond. Scullion says naming a San Francisco street after Huerta would be a fitting tribute for her upcoming 90th birthday. (April 10, Huerta’s birthday, is Dolores Huerta Day in California.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Renaming South Van Ness seems like a win for everyone,” Scullion says. “The mayor and supervisors can have a chance to shine a spotlight on someone who exemplifies the spirit of San Francisco, the neighborhood and city get a constant reminder of a role model, and Ms. Huerta can be given a birthday gift acknowledging her contributions and sacrifices.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The petition comes at a time when the city of San Francisco has \u003ca href=\"https://sfgov.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=6652905&GUID=6042BF04-6B7C-4319-A442-E535F3E9F012\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">legislation\u003c/a> in place to increase the representation of women on the city’s street names, public buildings, and public art by 30 percent before the end of 2020.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite the race to meet the legislative requirements, it seems unlikely that the street name change, if it comes to pass, will happen in time for Huerta’s birthday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">San Francisco Department of Public Works\u003c/a> spokeswoman Rachel Gordon says street name changes involve getting a groundswell of community buy-in before her department begins its in-depth review process, and then potentially sends the request on to the board of supervisors and mayor for approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The ones that succeed are the ones where there is a lot of community outreach,” Rosen says. “And the ones where there are not a lot of properties on the street.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An \u003ca href=\"https://sfpublicworks.org/services/establishing-street-names\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">online Department of Public Works information sheet\u003c/a> about the process mentions the need for property owners to be on board with the potential street name change: “If a member of the public initiates the request, they must present their petition to Public Works with signatures from property owners whose lots are abutting the subject street. 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He says it’s high time the city honored Huerta, who co-founded the National Farmworkers Association (now \u003ca href=\"https://ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a>) with Cesar Chavez and fought tirelessly for decades on behalf of workers rights, in the same way it’s honored Chavez.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I was around San Francisco when Cesar Chavez Street was named,” Scullion says of the thoroughfare formerly known as Army Street. “And I always thought it was strange that Dolores didn’t get a street as well.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scullion, a resident of the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, says he’s known of Chavez and Huerta since he was a child, and that his parents participated in the Delano Grape Strike of 1965. 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