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“Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed. You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read. You cannot humiliate the person who feels pride. You cannot oppress the people who are not afraid anymore. We have seen the future, and the future is ours.” – César E. Chávez!
Cesar Chavez day celebration – organized by Solevar, Agape House of Prayer and Anaheim’s parks department – to be held from noon to 3 p.m. Saturday April 2 at the Betsy Ross Park Pavilion (corner of Walnut/Santa Ana in Anaheim) – Thanx to Theresa Cisneros for providing the information!
*Side note, after speaking with community activist Seferino Garcia on the phone, who helps put together the event, he made mention of his efforts, past and present, to get street names and parks in Anaheim and Santa Ana named after Cesar Chavez. The time has come, no? Look at all the worship of Zombie Reagan in OC — How about a little recognition for Chavez en el corazon of la otra OC?
UPDATE: Local event canceled according to organizer
Happy Dead Socialists Day!
Spoken like a true fascist “Charlie”.
Cesar Chavez fought for civil and human rights. I did not know those were “socialist” only values.
Actually, unions are a big reason why America isn’t socialist. It’s a capitalist way to ensure workers aren’t abused or taken advantage of.
I like how Cesar fought for American farm workers regardless of the color of their skin. I know, maybe most were brown but that’s better than modern day leaders that just fight for the rights of their own kind.
Great leaders like that are few and far between.
It’s not a capitalist way, but a democratic way to place a check from below on the system’s power. The low numbers of union members in the private sector show that it’s not a built in component.
gabriel san roman, Yeah, that might be a better term. Although most people think we are a capitalist country and have a democracy.
I guess what I was trying to say is if we never had unions in the first place, we might have become socialist or had a social democracy like a lot of other western nations out there.
Regardless, he was a great leader.
Happy happy! Though I do think it should be Chavez-Huerta Day…or give Huerta her own day, now that would be something. Maybe someday 🙂
THIS MOMENTOUS DAY!
Not one day in anyone’s life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down’s syndrome child.
Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example.
Each smallest act of kindness – even just words of hope when they are needed, the remembrance of a birthday, a compliment that engenders a smile – reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it’s passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away.
Likewise, each small meanness, each thoughtless expression of hatred, each envious and bitter act, regardless of how petty, can inspire others, and is therefore the seed that ultimately produces evil fruit, poisoning people whom you have never met and never will.
All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined – those dead, those living, those generations yet to come – that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.
Therefore, after every failure, we are obliged to strive again for success, and when faced with the end of one thing, we must build something new and better in the ashes, just as from pain and grief, we must weave hope, for each of us is a thread critical to the strength – the very survival – of the human tapestry.
Every hour in every life contains such often-unrecognized potential to affect the world that the great days for which we, in our dissatisfaction, so often yearn are already with us; all great days and thrilling possibilities are combined always in THIS MOMENTOUS DAY!
Excerpt from Dean Koontz’s book, “From the Corner of His Eye”.
It embodies the idea of how the smallest of acts can have such a profound effect on each of our lives.
Go with God, until we see you again, Cesar Estrada Chavez, thank you.