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Cesar Estrada Chavez (; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW).
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A California Democratic congressman is asking the Navy to name a ship after the late San Francisco lawmaker and gay activist Harvey Milk, but some of the strongest opposition appears to be from the gay community.
Rep. Bob Filner has written a letter to the heads of the Navy and Defense Department saying he "wholeheartedly" agrees with local efforts in San Francisco and his San Diego district to honor Milk, a Navy diver better known for his term as San Francisco city supervisor. Milk was gunned down in 1978 by a former city supervisor."This action would be a fitting tribute to Mr. Milk's support for equality, an ideal exemplified in the military's recent repeal of its former 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell' policy," Filner also said in the widely reported letter to Navy Secretary Ray Mabus and Defense Secretary Leon Panetta.San Francisco and the rest of California continue to remember Milk's place in history as the state's first openly gay man elected to public office with the annual May 22 Harve...
Residents occupy city council meeting
The Navy's decision to name a cargo ship now under construction after labor activist Cesar Chavez has drawn sharp criticism from one veteran lawmaker who says that a...
The Navy is considering naming a new cargo ship after labor activist Cesar Chavez. The move has drawn criticism from a member of congress who says that a hero of the...
There are congressional hearings and there are comedy shows, and the twain rarely meet.So when a House panel on immigration combined them on purpose last week with t...
President Obama’s team has discovered another errant profit-seeking, job-producing villain -- the blueberry farmers of America. Who knew sprinkling blueberries on yo...
WASHINGTON -- There are congressional hearings and there are comedy shows, and the twain rarely meet.So when a House panel on immigration combined them on purpose la...
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then union advocates in Maine believe the new Republican governor is trying to silence the voice of the working class by remo...
Maine Gov. Paul LePage, who ignited a storm of protest by removing a labor-themed mural from a state office building last month, is now facing demands from the U.S. ...
Boise equals "high-desert oasis."Translation: it's a long drive to the next metropolis -- six hours to Salt Lake, nine to Portland. That's OK with locals. Remoteness...
Tiger Woods received enthusiastic applause as he walked into the assembly room at Cesar Chavez Public Charter School. He smiled, told stories and was universally wel...
Meet Dolores Huerta, an alleged socialist working for the Obama administration
If NFL owners aren't careful, they might just force us to sympathize with guys who make more in a year than most will take home in a lifetime. Chad Ochocinco could c...
Navy Secretary Ray Mabus on Wednesday said it was an honor to name the last of 14 Lewis and Clark-class cargo ships after the late farm worker activist Cesar Chavez ...
Fewer people applied for unemployment benefits last week, resuming a downward trend that signals stronger job growth ahead.Applications for unemployment benefits fel...
Richard Chavez, a leader in California's farmworker movement, has died at the age of 81.Chavez, who helped his brother Cesar Chavez build the United Farmworkers of A...
He died in 1972, at the age of sixty-three, a marginalized figure in his own obscure field and seldom mentioned outside of it.But to close followers of the topsy-tur...
Protest taken to higher level in California
A California congressman who blasted the Navy this week for naming a new cargo ship after labor activist Cesar Chavez is now preparing to file legislation that will...
An outside audit praised an ethnic studies program in Arizona as promoting peace and racial harmony, a dramatically different conclusion than that of the state's sch...
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