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(David McNew/Getty Images)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>While members of Congress visited Fresno on Wednesday to discuss what to do about California's dwindling water supply, state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Torlakson announced that the drought is beginning to impact school enrollment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Less planting means less demand for farm work, and some of the families of migrant workers are moving from the Central Valley to where there is work.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">'What are parents going to do? At a certain point they’re going to leave.'\u003ccite> State Superintendent Tom Torlakson\u003c/cite>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>\"'No water, no jobs.' We see those signs on the freeway, but that translates further to (if there are) no jobs, what are parents going to do? At a certain point they're going to leave,\" Torlakson told KQED's Central Bureau Chief Sasha Khokha in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Schools receive funding based on student attendance, so when attendance drops, revenue normally does, too. Torlakson said that the state will provide aid to local districts seeing declining enrollment because of the drought. While the state won't provide new money, it will provide the funding school districts would have received if students had not left. Torlakson said the California Department of Education will work with school districts and state senators to determine what districts experience an enrollment decline due to the drought.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The superintendent said the drought is affecting students and their families in other ways, too.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"We're also seeing the social impact of this crisis where families are doubling up. Farmworker families that have no work, two or three families are living in the same small space so those crowded conditions can lead to conflict, to stress, to the inability to concentrate and do your homework,\" he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/140449652&color=ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_artwork=true\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Farmers protest in Fresno\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The House Natural Resources Committee was greeted by hundreds of farmworkers at Fresno City Hall protesting what they say are unfair water allotments.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some workers held signs that read, \"Warning: No Water! No Food!\" and, \"Water — the hub of life.\" Chants of \"Water! 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In \u003ca href=\"http://costa.house.gov/index.php/2014-press-releases/1027-costa-cooperation-only-way-to-bring-valley-more-water\" target=\"_blank\">a statement\u003c/a> Tuesday, he called for a more bipartisan approach to dealing with the crisis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"It is my hope that we will hear more about common ground and solutions that will bring more water to this valley instead of rehashing the tired, partisan battles over California water,\" Costa wrote.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But several California Republicans in Congress \u003ca href=\"http://mavensnotebook.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/CA-Delegation-Letter-FINAL.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">sent a letter\u003c/a> on Tuesday to President Obama and Gov. Jerry Brown urging them to act now to get more water to the valley. Regulations aimed at protecting endangered fish allowed 445,000 acre-feet of water from February rains to be lost into the ocean, the letter said. House Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy, who was among 13 to sign the letter.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Given that communities in Central and Southern California are struggling to meet water needs and farmers are fallowing hundreds of thousands of acres of land that feed our state and country,\" the letter said, \"loss of this water is absolutely unacceptable.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Could a new reservoir help?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the town of Maxwell, in the Sacramento Valley, Democratic Rep. John Garamendi and Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa announced a bill proposing to build a new reservoir north of Sacramento. With a storage capacity of 1.9 million acre-feet, it would be about the same size as the San Luis Reservoir near Los Banos.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The proposal, which has been studied for years, is to wall off a remote valley just about halfway between Sacramento and Redding, and fill it with water from the Sacramento River when runoff is high. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe src=\"http://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/storymapjs/latest/embed/?url=https://www.googledrive.com/host/0Bx_2fFP0IuPcc1JDN0p6ejAzZ0U/published.json\" width=\"100%\" height=\"680\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"yes\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 4.6875em;float: left;line-height: 0.733em;padding: 0.05em 0.1em 0 0;font-family: times, serif, georgia\">T\u003c/span>he first feature film about California’s iconic farmworker leader hits theaters later this month, called, simply “Cesar Chavez.” It’s largely set in the Kern County town of Delano, where farmworkers went on strike and started a grape boycott in the 1960s. But it’s not so easy for a visitor to Delano to find the sites depicted in the film, because many of them are unmarked.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Unless, that is, you happen to take a tour with some of the original farmworkers involved in the grape strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129461\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 240px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129461\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/DELANO.jpg\" alt=\"Delano\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Delano\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“All we wanted was our basic rights,” says Roberto Bustos. He says the conditions depicted in the film are spot-on: shots showing farmworkers using short-handled hoes, harvesting crops on bloodied knees and paying money to drink lukewarm water from a shared tin cup.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The right to organize. You know, restrooms in the fields, clean, fresh, cold water, to be treated like human beings, period,” says Bustos, who was 23 when he joined the strike.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bustos is standing in front of a row of farmworkers’ houses in Delano, across from an alfalfa field. He points to what’s now a Pentecostal church. There’s no plaque or sign marking this site, but this was the first union headquarters and a starting point for the historic farmworker march Chavez led from Delano to Sacramento in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought (Chavez) was talking about a caravan,” recalls Bustos. “He said, ‘No, no, no, we’re talking about walking. We’re going to be marching to Sacramento.’ We thought, ‘That guy is crazy.’ We thought maybe all the pesticides in the grapes have affected his brain. Now he wants us to walk!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk they did, for more than 300 miles. Chavez named Bustos captain of that march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, blisters galore!” laughs Bustos. “We were walking in our Sunday shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\n\u003ch3>The trailer for \"Cesar Chavez\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2E7eeSAG90?rel=0]\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The film intersperses dramatized scenes of the march and other key events in the farmworker movement with historical news clips. Directed by Mexican actor Diego Luna, the movie was largely shot in the Mexican state of Sonora, whose government helped finance the project. On the set, Luna went to great lengths to recreate sites in Delano, like Filipino Hall, where Filipino and Mexican strikers came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m half Filipino and half Mexican, and the growers used to pit the groups against each other,” says Lorraine Agtang, sitting near the old strike kitchen. “It was the first time I felt like a whole person, because Filipinos didn’t hang out with Mexicans. But Cesar had the ability to bring those workers together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believed that all the roads leading out of Delano led to another grape field,” recalls Agtang, who went on to work as an administrator in Yolo County. “Cesar opened the door to the world for all of us. We were just little farmworkers, in a little farmworker community. I didn’t know anyone outside of Delano. I don’t think I’d ever been outside of Delano. And then in the grape strike, to see the whole world supported the union, and everyone stopped buying grapes, that was pretty amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers also built a replica of the adobe brick gas station at the 40-acre compound, which later became Chavez’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not remember this room being so small and so barren. Pretty stark,” says Paul Chavez, the son of Cesar, as he unlocks a tiny storeroom. It is empty but for a single bed and side table with a pitcher for water. This is where Cesar Chavez stayed during his 25-day fast to emphasize his commitment to nonviolence back in 1968. Paul was just 11 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n'I really believed that all the roads leading out of Delano led to another grape field.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lorraine Agtang, Delano resident\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s a scary feeling to see somebody you love become weaker by the day,” says Paul Chavez. “Knowing they could just start eating, that it would be OK, and not understanding why he wouldn’t eat. But later, I came to understand the importance of penance and sacrifice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial reviews of “Cesar Chavez” have criticized the film for making Chavez appear too one-dimensional, too saintly and not exploring more of his character flaws or darker periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.chavezfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">esar Chavez Foundation\u003c/a>, which Paul heads, weighed in heavily on the script. Paul says the filmmakers encouraged the Chavez family to share more private details of Cesar’s life, so the script could humanize him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that we don’t put my father up on a pedestal, so that we make him larger than life and people think there’s only once in a lifetime that a Cesar Chavez comes,” says Paul. “If there’s anything to learn from my father’s example, it was that he was a regular person. He never owned a car, never owned a house. He showed that regular, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129436\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 327px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129436\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/paulbed.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul, standing in the tiny storage room where Cesar Chavez fasted in 1968 to protest that some farmworkers on strike wanted to resort to violence. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul, standing in the tiny storage room where Cesar Chavez fasted in 1968 to protest that some farmworkers on strike wanted to resort to violence. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Delano Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A visitor to Delano can’t just pull up and see the room where Chavez fasted. A plaque outside shows the compound at “The 40 Acres” has been designated a national historic landmark, but there are no exhibits or tour guides. President Obama did designate the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/08/remarks-president-dedication-cesar-chavez-national-monument-keene-ca\" target=\"_blank\">Cesar Chavez National Monument\u003c/a> at Chavez’s later headquarters in Keene, Calif. That site is run in conjunction with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why aren’t their murals or museums about Chavez in Delano? People here are slowly forgetting his history,” says Irene Mendoza, a farmworker who still works picking and packing grapes. “New immigrants coming now to Delano, they don’t know who Chavez was. We hear, thanks to him, we have this or that, but not really who he was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza sits in her living room, in the house she was able to buy two years ago in a new subdivision in Delano. She says because of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Farmworkers-legacy-on-display-at-SF-State-4529640.php\" target=\"_blank\">farmworker movement\u003c/a>, she now gets unemployment during the winter, when there’s little work in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now the conditions in the fields are better. We have cold water, enough bathrooms. The only thing missing is that we still barely earn above minimum wage. And we don’t have Chavez to help us with that,” Mendoza says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Membership in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> union has dwindled since the period depicted in the film. Mendoza has never worked under a union contract. She says most of her co-workers don’t seem that interested in paying union dues, and count on \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> or other agencies to enforce some of the laws the union fought for back in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a town in which Slavic growers were hostile and demeaning to Filipino and Latino farmworkers, shooting guns at striking farmworkers and spraying them with pesticides. The grape boycott forced many of Delano’s growers to the negotiating table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Delano is still largely agricultural, but the power dynamics have changed. Back in the 1960s, white growers largely controlled the police, the courts and the town government. Now, the City Council is all Latino, as is the mayor, former farmworker Grace Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She took me on a tour of Cesar Chavez High School, a gleaming new complex built on a former vineyard in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the 1960s, you would never ever see a display of Cesar’s pictures in any school, let alone have a school named Cesar Chavez High,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129439\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129439\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/womanshome-e1394820193638.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Irene Mendoza says Chavez’s biggest legacy is winning unemployment benefits, so they can afford to pay rent or mortgage in the off-season. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Irene Mendoza says Chavez’s biggest legacy is winning unemployment benefits, so they can afford to pay rent or mortgage in the off-season. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It cost the school district $100,000 just to be able to name the school after Chavez. The grower who sold the district the land loathed Chavez so much that he stipulated that, if school officials ever named the school after Chavez, they would have to pay an additional fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo says Chavez didn’t just improve things in the fields, but gave farmworkers the confidence that they could get an education and move into positions of power in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change in Delano. It’s like the caterpillar that became the butterfly. I think that’s what happened to our lives. We don’t want to fly away,” Vallejo says. “We want to be here and we want to improve things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students and teachers at Cesar Chavez High are children of farmworkers. English teacher Lorraine Leynes, 27, says she came back to Delano after earning a master’s degree. She didn’t learn about the significance of Delano’s history until she got to UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delano, the farmworker movement, Cesar Chavez, were being mentioned in textbooks all over the world, and me, being from Delano, I knew very little history. So I made it a point to learn it,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Leynes wants to organize a field trip for her students to go see the film in nearby Bakersfield.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film isn’t scheduled to play in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Update: Since the airing and publication of this story, Diego Luna, the Cesar Chavez Foundation and the UFW jointly hosted a screening of \"Cesar Chavez\" at Forty Acres.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Interactive tour and web production by Olivia Allen-Price.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Bustos is standing in front of a row of farmworkers’ houses in Delano, across from an alfalfa field. He points to what’s now a Pentecostal church. There’s no plaque or sign marking this site, but this was the first union headquarters and a starting point for the historic farmworker march Chavez led from Delano to Sacramento in 1966.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We thought (Chavez) was talking about a caravan,” recalls Bustos. “He said, ‘No, no, no, we’re talking about walking. We’re going to be marching to Sacramento.’ We thought, ‘That guy is crazy.’ We thought maybe all the pesticides in the grapes have affected his brain. Now he wants us to walk!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Walk they did, for more than 300 miles. Chavez named Bustos captain of that march.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Man, blisters galore!” laughs Bustos. “We were walking in our Sunday shoes.”\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"alignright noborder\">\n\u003ch3>The trailer for \"Cesar Chavez\"\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutube'>\n \u003cspan class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__embedYoutubeInside'>\n \u003ciframe\n loading='lazy'\n class='utils-parseShortcode-shortcodes-__youtubeShortcode__youtubePlayer'\n type='text/html'\n src='//www.youtube.com/embed/b2E7eeSAG90?rel=0'\n title='//www.youtube.com/embed/b2E7eeSAG90?rel=0'\n allowfullscreen='true'\n style='border:0;'>\u003c/iframe>\n \u003c/span>\n \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>The film intersperses dramatized scenes of the march and other key events in the farmworker movement with historical news clips. Directed by Mexican actor Diego Luna, the movie was largely shot in the Mexican state of Sonora, whose government helped finance the project. On the set, Luna went to great lengths to recreate sites in Delano, like Filipino Hall, where Filipino and Mexican strikers came together.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m half Filipino and half Mexican, and the growers used to pit the groups against each other,” says Lorraine Agtang, sitting near the old strike kitchen. “It was the first time I felt like a whole person, because Filipinos didn’t hang out with Mexicans. But Cesar had the ability to bring those workers together.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I really believed that all the roads leading out of Delano led to another grape field,” recalls Agtang, who went on to work as an administrator in Yolo County. “Cesar opened the door to the world for all of us. We were just little farmworkers, in a little farmworker community. I didn’t know anyone outside of Delano. I don’t think I’d ever been outside of Delano. And then in the grape strike, to see the whole world supported the union, and everyone stopped buying grapes, that was pretty amazing.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The filmmakers also built a replica of the adobe brick gas station at the 40-acre compound, which later became Chavez’s headquarters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I do not remember this room being so small and so barren. Pretty stark,” says Paul Chavez, the son of Cesar, as he unlocks a tiny storeroom. It is empty but for a single bed and side table with a pitcher for water. This is where Cesar Chavez stayed during his 25-day fast to emphasize his commitment to nonviolence back in 1968. Paul was just 11 years old at the time.\u003c/p>\n\u003caside class=\"pullquote alignleft\">\n'I really believed that all the roads leading out of Delano led to another grape field.'\u003cbr>\n\u003ccite>Lorraine Agtang, Delano resident\u003c/cite>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/aside>\n\u003cp>“It’s a scary feeling to see somebody you love become weaker by the day,” says Paul Chavez. “Knowing they could just start eating, that it would be OK, and not understanding why he wouldn’t eat. But later, I came to understand the importance of penance and sacrifice.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initial reviews of “Cesar Chavez” have criticized the film for making Chavez appear too one-dimensional, too saintly and not exploring more of his character flaws or darker periods.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.chavezfoundation.org/\" target=\"_blank\">esar Chavez Foundation\u003c/a>, which Paul heads, weighed in heavily on the script. Paul says the filmmakers encouraged the Chavez family to share more private details of Cesar’s life, so the script could humanize him.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We want to make sure that we don’t put my father up on a pedestal, so that we make him larger than life and people think there’s only once in a lifetime that a Cesar Chavez comes,” says Paul. “If there’s anything to learn from my father’s example, it was that he was a regular person. He never owned a car, never owned a house. He showed that regular, ordinary people can do extraordinary things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129436\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 327px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129436\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/paulbed.jpg\" alt=\"Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul, standing in the tiny storage room where Cesar Chavez fasted in 1968 to protest that some farmworkers on strike wanted to resort to violence. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"327\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cesar Chavez’s son, Paul, standing in the tiny storage room where Cesar Chavez fasted in 1968 to protest that some farmworkers on strike wanted to resort to violence. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Delano Today\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A visitor to Delano can’t just pull up and see the room where Chavez fasted. A plaque outside shows the compound at “The 40 Acres” has been designated a national historic landmark, but there are no exhibits or tour guides. President Obama did designate the \u003ca href=\"http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2012/10/08/remarks-president-dedication-cesar-chavez-national-monument-keene-ca\" target=\"_blank\">Cesar Chavez National Monument\u003c/a> at Chavez’s later headquarters in Keene, Calif. That site is run in conjunction with the National Park Service.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why aren’t their murals or museums about Chavez in Delano? People here are slowly forgetting his history,” says Irene Mendoza, a farmworker who still works picking and packing grapes. “New immigrants coming now to Delano, they don’t know who Chavez was. We hear, thanks to him, we have this or that, but not really who he was.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mendoza sits in her living room, in the house she was able to buy two years ago in a new subdivision in Delano. She says because of the \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Farmworkers-legacy-on-display-at-SF-State-4529640.php\" target=\"_blank\">farmworker movement\u003c/a>, she now gets unemployment during the winter, when there’s little work in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Now the conditions in the fields are better. We have cold water, enough bathrooms. The only thing missing is that we still barely earn above minimum wage. And we don’t have Chavez to help us with that,” Mendoza says in Spanish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Membership in the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ufw.org/\" target=\"_blank\">United Farm Workers\u003c/a> union has dwindled since the period depicted in the film. Mendoza has never worked under a union contract. She says most of her co-workers don’t seem that interested in paying union dues, and count on \u003ca href=\"http://www.dir.ca.gov/dosh/\" target=\"_blank\">Cal/OSHA\u003c/a> or other agencies to enforce some of the laws the union fought for back in the 1960s.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The film depicts a town in which Slavic growers were hostile and demeaning to Filipino and Latino farmworkers, shooting guns at striking farmworkers and spraying them with pesticides. The grape boycott forced many of Delano’s growers to the negotiating table.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today Delano is still largely agricultural, but the power dynamics have changed. Back in the 1960s, white growers largely controlled the police, the courts and the town government. Now, the City Council is all Latino, as is the mayor, former farmworker Grace Vallejo.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She took me on a tour of Cesar Chavez High School, a gleaming new complex built on a former vineyard in 2003.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Back in the 1960s, you would never ever see a display of Cesar’s pictures in any school, let alone have a school named Cesar Chavez High,” she says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_129439\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 350px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-129439\" src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2015/03/womanshome-e1394820193638.jpg\" alt=\"Farmworker Irene Mendoza says Chavez’s biggest legacy is winning unemployment benefits, so they can afford to pay rent or mortgage in the off-season. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Farmworker Irene Mendoza says Chavez’s biggest legacy is winning unemployment benefits, so they can afford to pay rent or mortgage in the off-season. (Sasha Khokha/KQED)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It cost the school district $100,000 just to be able to name the school after Chavez. The grower who sold the district the land loathed Chavez so much that he stipulated that, if school officials ever named the school after Chavez, they would have to pay an additional fee.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Vallejo says Chavez didn’t just improve things in the fields, but gave farmworkers the confidence that they could get an education and move into positions of power in Delano.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s a huge change in Delano. It’s like the caterpillar that became the butterfly. I think that’s what happened to our lives. We don’t want to fly away,” Vallejo says. “We want to be here and we want to improve things.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of the students and teachers at Cesar Chavez High are children of farmworkers. English teacher Lorraine Leynes, 27, says she came back to Delano after earning a master’s degree. She didn’t learn about the significance of Delano’s history until she got to UC San Diego.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Delano, the farmworker movement, Cesar Chavez, were being mentioned in textbooks all over the world, and me, being from Delano, I knew very little history. 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My water’s $140. So it’s pretty hard,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ortizes rent a house for $800 a month, with broken windows, chipped paint and a front yard that’s nothing but packed dirt. Other farmworker families here live in trailers without running water or electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feeding the World — and Going Hungry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ortiz pays the rent with cash aid from the government that varies, depending on Oscar’s income in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s out there picking for almost the whole world, and I mean, he only brings like so much money home to feed his own family,” Ortiz said. “We have many, many field workers that do that. 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My water’s $140. So it’s pretty hard,” she explained.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Ortizes rent a house for $800 a month, with broken windows, chipped paint and a front yard that’s nothing but packed dirt. Other farmworker families here live in trailers without running water or electricity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Feeding the World — and Going Hungry\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jessica Ortiz pays the rent with cash aid from the government that varies, depending on Oscar’s income in the fields.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“He’s out there picking for almost the whole world, and I mean, he only brings like so much money home to feed his own family,” Ortiz said. “We have many, many field workers that do that. 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"content": "\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"http://books.google.com/books?id=xEooBgVLQY0C\" target=\"_blank\">a favorite novel\u003c/a>, an Iowa farmer named Ray Kinsella hears a disembodied voice speaking to him from a cornfield. \"If you build it, he will come,\" the voice says. And thus begins a cross-country fantasy that's equal parts baseball and personal redemption. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That's fiction. Anything goes. But it's a little surprising to find that the California High-Speed Rail Authority seems to be adopting the \"if you build it\" approach to choosing the first segment of the state's bullet-train route. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_7148\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 231px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/11/hsrmap1126101.png\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/news/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2010/11/hsrmap1126101-231x300.png\" alt=\"Proposed rail segment (click for larger map)\" title=\"hsrmap112610\" width=\"231\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7148\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Proposed rail segment (click for larger map)\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Or maybe not so surprising, if you step back. Money talks, and the authority is hearing voices, too—specifically, the commanding tones of the Federal Railroad Administration. Earlier this fall, FRA not only gave California the good news that it was \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=9376\" target=\"_blank\">awarding $715 million\u003c/a> to help get high-speed rail rolling, but also that \u003ca href=\"http://www.mercurynews.com/san-mateo-county/ci_16523750\" target=\"_blank\">the money would need to be spent in the San Joaquin Valley\u003c/a>. (Why there? Despite the wealth of published material, from the agency itself and from some decent reporters, we don't see explicit reasoning beyond the following speculation: there's less political opposition to high-speed rail in the Valley than in the Bay Area; it would be cheaper and less complicated to build the initial segment in the Valley than in the heavily populated Los Angeles-San Diego corridor; and, with the Valley's economy in a prolonged deep slump because of the collapse of housing construction, it needs a big economic shot in the arm.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The federal rail people have left it to California, though, to decide exactly where in the San Joaquin Valley the first segment should be built. The two choices were a piece from Merced to Fresno, about 60 miles, or one from Fresno to Bakersfield, 110 miles or so. Earlier this week, the High-Speed Rail Authority staff announced a choice: a hybrid segment from Borden, a hamlet on the outskirts of Madera, 20 miles north of Fresno, to Corcoran, 45 miles south of Fresno. The authority's board, which faces an end-of-the-year deadline to get its hands on the new federal grant, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/WorkArea/DownloadAsset.aspx?id=9435\" target=\"_blank\">will consider the recommendation\u003c/a> at its board meeting next Thursday, Dec. 2. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If Rep. Dennis Cardoza's reaction to the segment proposal is anything to go by, the rail board is going to hear from some angry people. Cardoza, a Democrat whose 18th Congressional District includes Merced—a town left out of the rail authority's proposal—\u003ca href=\"http://cardoza.house.gov/index.cfm?sectionid=87§iontree=6,87&itemid=699\" target=\"_blank\">issued a press release\u003c/a> accusing the authority of a \"bait and switch\" and demanding an investigation into its route-selection process. (Cardoza's not the only one who's upset. See the California High Speed Rail Blog: \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahsrblog.com/2010/11/merced-hsr-supporters-angry-at-construction-proposal/\" target=\"_blank\">\"Merced HSR Supporters Angry at Construction Proposal\u003c/a>.\") \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Cardoza's rant also raises a point that we wonder about, too: Who's going to ride a line with one end approximately in the middle of nowhere—sorry, \u003ca href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borden,_California\" target=\"_blank\">Borden\u003c/a>; nothing personal—and the other end anchored in \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofcorcoran.com/\" target=\"_blank\">a town\u003c/a> known to the outside world mostly as the home of \u003ca href=\"http://www.cdcr.ca.gov/Facilities_Locator/COR.html\" target=\"_blank\">a state prison\u003c/a>? \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The answer may in fact be \"no one.\" The laws and regulations that control the federal funding for the project require that the cash go into projects with \"operational independence\" or \"independent utility.\" In the words of a High-Speed Rail Authority staff report on the new segment, \"A project is considered to have operational independence 'if, upon being implemented, it will provide tangible and measurable benefits, even if no additional investments in the same service are made.' \" We're not experts, but that sounds like a working railroad to us; we can just imagine the Valley landscape blurring past on that 66-mile, 20-minute trip from greater Madera to Corcoran. (The staff report also notes that the new segment would pass muster under federal law if all it does is enhance Amtrak service. Currently, the section in question is part of Amtrak California's \u003ca href=\"http://www.amtrak.com/servlet/ContentServer?c=AM_Route_C&pagename=am%2FLayout&cid=1241245650084\" target=\"_blank\">San Joaquin\u003c/a> train from Oakland to Bakersfield.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But maybe it'll just be a fancy set of tracks, waiting to get connected to something else. That's the conclusion you come to when you hear what \u003ca href=\"http://www.cahighspeedrail.ca.gov/Roelof_van_Ark.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Roelof van Ark\u003c/a>, the authority's CEO, has to say about it. 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