Labor Sec. Honors Union Hero Cesar Chavez, Renames Auditorium After Him
- Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:02pm by
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Left to right: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis & César Chávez
First it was a cargo ship, now it’s an auditorium: “The one labor socialist many Americans love, United Farm Workers [UFW] co-founder César Chávez, finally has some real estate in Washington thanks to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis’ move Monday to name the department’s auditorium after the famous produce picker,” the Washington Examiner reports.
After being personally trained by the infamous community organizer Saul Alinsky, Chávez co-founded the UFW with Democratic Socialists of America honorary co-chair Dolores Huerta to “fight for fair wages for migrant workers.”
A side note: Blaze readers may remember Dolores Huerta from a story we did in 2010 when she was caught on tape praising Venezuelan dictator Hugo Chavez in front of a high school audience.
Democratic Socialists of America honorary co-chair Dolores Huerta
“Today, we celebrate one of America’s most powerful stories of courage and victory. The farm worker movement was begun by people who didn’t have money or clout. Many were new to this country and lived season to season,” Solis said before an audience that included Huerta.
“They were hard-working people of the land who asked only for dignity and fair treatment, and today we are proud to give them the Department of Labor’s highest honor.”
She continued:
I want to honor a trailblazer who was there from the very beginning. She’s a luchadora who endured arrests, death threats and beatings — a fearless woman who had her bones broken in the struggle but never her spirit. I’m proud to call her my teacher, my role model, and mi hermana. Brothers and sisters, let’s show our appreciation for one of the living legends of the farm worker movement, Dolores Huerta.
“Dolores worked mano a mano with one of the most celebrated icons of the American civil rights movement: the great César Estrada Chávez, who was inducted into our Hall of Honor in 1998,” Solis added.
Solis, along with Jill Biden, unveiled a mosaic of Chávez that will be on permanent display at the department.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis names and unveils the Cesar E. Chavez Memorial Auditorium. (Courtesy: Fox News Latino)
(H/T: WFB)
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Comments (61)
Zeke48
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:17pmWhat happened to my country. I didn’t vote for that POS Obama, but a lot of white people did. Are you happy now. Not that he is Black, I didn’t vote for him because I listened to everything that was said about him and I made my decision.I only wish that everyone finds out everything they can about everyone that is running for Office and vote with your head this time. This President has tried to devide Americans at every turn. Blacks against Whites. Rich against poor. Look what he had done with our Military, first he wanted Vets to pay for their own injuries, cutting the number of troops. Cut the defense budget to ribbons. Gave gays the right to be open with their queerness. He has even praised the idiots that call themselves Occupiers. He needs to come out because he is Bi. Both Hillary and Obama has long ties with the gays. just Google Obamas Man Country. there are lots of stories out there about Obama. We need a big change for the better in 2012 . God Bless America
Report Post »fblair
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 11:21pmPeople are endeared to Chavez for his workers rights work in America, but totally forget that he was a paid hit man for Castro.
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:21pmBarack Obama calls for National Holiday for Cesar E. Chavez
April 1, 2008 Washington DC–
Evelina Alarcon, Executive Director of Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday welcomed the backing for a Cesar Chavez national holiday from
Presidential candidate Senator Barack Obama who issued a statement on Cesar Chavez’s birthday Monday, March 31, 2008.
“As farmworkers and laborers across America continue to struggle for fair treatment and fair wages, we find strength in what Cesar Chavez accomplished so many years ago,” Obama said in a statement from his campaign
…..“It is also encouraging that Senator Hillary Clinton who is a great admirer of Cesar Chavez acknowledged him on his birthday. We hope that she too will soon state her support for a Cesar Chavez national holiday.”
San Francisco
Cesar E. Chavez
Holiday Parade & Festival 2012
Commemorate & Celebrate
the Life and Work of
Labor & Civil Rights Leader
Cesar E. Chavez
March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993
March 31st……César Chávez Day celebrations are held in many parts of the United States. It is a state holiday in California
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 8:24pmWere the men’s rooms already dedicated?
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:25pm@Stupid Windmill
“There is no such thing as Unions anymore in case you didn’t know” yes there is 1 left its the union of our money to their pockets>>
Report Post »REPUB1
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:17pmcan someone tell Hilda Solis to get the lipstick out of her teeth what a role model and spokes person of such FILTH another apointed commie posted by our TRAITOR_IN_CHIEF???
Report Post »mar2012kds
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:10pmAs a union member in the 1960‘s we were asked to help Chavez’s effort with a yes vote thru our local headquarters —— after researching his records I rated him right up there with Quadaffe, Castro and Yassar Arafat so I personally voted no —— Unfortunately the vote passed by a slim margin and the flood of immigrants began to rise !
Report Post »I view his recent (HONORING) by SOLIS ,as strictly an OBAMA / BIDEN push for minority VOTES !!
By the way, How is that “ Its time for a change” thingy working out for you ?? R. U. READY YET ?
inferno
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:15pmChavez, Mandella, and Dsmond Tu Tu. All part of the the left. Oh, I forgot Che !
Report Post »EP46
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 7:08pmYou forgot barry
Report Post »Dave.the.Blaze
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:09pmTo conflate the plight of the farmworkers and those like Chavez who fought for their rights with Communism is pure ignorance.
By the way, he was an American (born in Arizona) and was a World War II veteran. He also worked to limit immigration from the south because he believed it undermined American workers and exploited American migrant workers. Hey, he sounds like a modern Conservative!!
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:15pmIt is pure communism.
Report Post »The_Jerk
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:32pmJerry Cohen, who was general counsel to the farm workers union… Jews are never far from socialism/communism. When you look, you will find the same with the NAACP and MLK.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:41pmTrue… any American… can become a Criminal, Communist, Pervert, or Traitor… we just do not name things in their honor (antonym) or build statues to them!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:06pmAh yes! Hilda Soliz , our illustrious Secretary of Labor and member of “LaRaza”(the race), honoring the put upon, Cesar Chavez. UGH!
If Mexico was not a corrupt nation then , and continues to be a corrupt nation now, Cesar and his family would not have been reduced to picking produce in California!
Everyone sucks up the largesse and goodness of the U.S.A..Yet they hate us!
Report Post »Let the Mexicans stay in Mexico and have the courage to rise up against their own government!
Dave.the.Blaze
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:11pmChavez was born in America (AZ), not Mexico!
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:08pmDAVE.THE.BLAZE,
Report Post »So he led a bunch of Americans? Enlighten me oh wise one.
rationallyurs
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:58pmjust part of the 20 million HOODRAT march
Report Post »mule creek ridge
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:57pmIf memory serves,Mr. Chavez was against an open border. He promoted a good thing for legal farm workers wages IMHO!!!
Report Post »Amazingoly
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:55pmPerhaps the new 2013 administration will re-name the re-name to something American.
Report Post »martinez012577
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:58pmI doubt Obama and friends will do that. Maybe we should tried to nominate someone not like him.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:07pmYeah, we’re in trouble. According to the media, it looks like we’re going to have Obamney, or perhaps Rombama for president for the next 4 years.
Totally screwed.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:20pmI do believe that Mexico is in The “Americas” so it’s still named after an American. I’m apposed to the naming but,we in the United States of America don’t have exclusive rights to “American”. After all there are people who live in South America who are also “Americans”.
Report Post »Dave.the.Blaze
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:26pmPeople, Chavez was born in America, not Mexico. Jeesh!
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:59pmonce again the (r) party will nominate a person who will“work”the (d)’s. while the (d) party chooses who who will progress the socialist agenda. (d)’s play to win the (r) play to get along so guess who wins…….they‘re quietly hiding under the desks in congress who high five O’Kenyan and tell his holiness yea we’re with you,lets SC**W with AMERICAN PEOPLE….that’s your present (r) party willing to take no slings and arrows,that’s left to people like ,Rush,Beck,Hannity,Malkin,Lavin and many more….
Report Post »CS_GUY
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:47pmTiming is everything for a revolution…………
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:42pm“Today, we celebrate one of America’s most powerful stories of courage and victory.”
Well, as Rick Santorum says,
It’s ********!!!
Report Post »Crazy Times
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:49pmSimple, sweet, to the point. I am making Rick Santorum’s simple statment that everyone knows my battle cry to the crazy outragous left. He should make Santorum hoodies that state this. or a picture of it on the hoodie.
“It’s Bull****!!!” – Rick Santorum
Report Post »Chet Hempstead
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:36pmFor all the nitwits who are hating on this guy, you should at least see what it was like for farm workers before they had a union, and why they felt they needed one. From 1960, “Harvest of Shame”: http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7087479n
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:51pmAh, the old “False Choice” logical fallacy.
You see, folks? If it weren’t for Unions, all farm workers would endure hardship!
In other words, there are only two options, hardship for all farm workers, or unionization. No other choice! Nothing in between. The free market couldn’t have solved the problem on its own. It took Socialists artifically inflating labor costs (passed on as inflated food costs to you and I) in order to solve the problems of “all farm workers”.
Well, thank goodness for that lesson in Marxist debating logic. What else can we solve using this new tool of “reasoned debate”?
Report Post »Lucy Larue
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:13pmCHET HEMPSTEAD,
He was a citizen of MEXICO! Got it?!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:15pmThat video has been debunked as having many half-truths(complete lies). It was in the 1960′s and the truth left out of the video was that the companies(farmers) built nice homes,fed and schooled the workers.They did this with their own money.The Internet wasn’t available then to bring this to light of day.Nice try Chet, but Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Report Post »calijohn
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:47pmi lived in bakersfield in the early “60′s.
Report Post »my dad was a field representave for the social security administration and called on the labor camps a couple of times per week. purpose of the visits was to get the farm workers, at the time “braceros” (legal alien workers), social security numbers and get the growers to pay their share into the social security system.
he described in vivid detail the squalid conditions the workers and their families lived in. sewage running in the “streets” (actually no more than paths between shanties) due to overflowing outhouses, bare electric wires feeding open light bulbs, no fresh water, etc.
the plight of the farm worker would not have changed but for the efforts of chavez and others like him.
and he was born in yuma, az.
chips1
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 10:11pmCALIJON:
Report Post »If that was the living conditions in Bakersfield, Why did they come to the U.S.? It sounds like the conditions in Mexico. They live in drainage ditches in cardboard boxes. Maybe evolution south of the border has come to a screeching halt.
Biff_Poindexter
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:35pmSome folks most have wonderful lives to afford to be worked up over non-sense….
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:32pmWhat a DISGRACE!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:23pmMartin Sheen’s old buddy.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:30pm‘2 and 1/2 Men’… was funny… but it was also a Parade of Commies!
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:03pmMartin, Charlie’s dad.
Report Post »SamIamTwo
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:23pmPathetic.
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:18pmI remember reading about when this guy was ferrying prostitutes out to the field workers. I think that he’s very considerate.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:18pmSocialists worshiping socialists. It makes sense.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:48pmhttp://www.theobamacountdown.com/
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:14pmYeah Farmers are terrible people who should know better than to stand up for their rights to labor!
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:21pmWhat right is that? It’s not the right to work – not in Califexico, anyway.
Report Post »Jaycen
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:01pmI’m with you, STUPID WINDMILL!
Farmers should stand up for their right to work hard! Yes! They definitely have a right to “labor”. They can labor till their brains fall out in America, if that’s what makes them happy. Heck, they could labor till they drop dead in the field.
Man, I‘m glad you’re standing next to me in your support of farm workers to work as hard as they like.
Report Post »338lapua
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:13pmTime for comrade Solis to GO!
Report Post »geonj
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:10pmf-ing socialist illegal immigrants. and solis is their leader.
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:15pmI’ve should have known that the soil was in on it.
Report Post »TexBork
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:43pmgeonj, At least that’s a good photo of her though. She looks pretty hot in that picture, but I still wouldn’t want to hang out with a socialist. At least not with an activist one.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:06pmBiden , enough said.
Report Post »HKS
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:05pmWell isn’t it nice to know that we have such loyalty to the Reich alive and well today.
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 4:17pmWhich one?
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:02pmThe Union Reich. You know the ones that feed off a company until it goes bankrupt and then wonder why their job is gone.
Report Post »Stupid Windmill
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 5:13pm@NegroHawk1
I don’t know of any Kingdom of Unions. Especially ones that Feed off companies. There is no such thing as Unions anymore in case you didn’t know.
Report Post »therealconservative
Posted on March 27, 2012 at 6:50pm@STUPID
“There is no such thing as Unions anymore in case you didn’t know.”
So I guess SEIU, UAW, AFL-CIO and TEAMSTERS are just our imagination. Your name fits.
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