Thread: GALEO: Rally for Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday

Rally for Cesar Chavez National Holiday

Monday, 3/31/08
State Capitol, Atlanta, Georgia
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Media Advisory

For Logistical/Planning Purposes Only Contact: Fred Barias, GALEO Leadership Council,
404-966-5169


For Media Inquiries: Jerry Gonzalez, GALEO, jerry@galeo.org [mailto:jerry@galeo.org],
404.745.2580


Tuesday, March 25, 2008

For the first time in Georgia's history, local Atlanta communities unite with national
organization to express support for a resolution calling for a National Holiday
for Farm Worker leader Cesar E. Chavez on his birthday March 31.

ATLANTA - GALEO Leadership Council Members, the President of the Southern Christian
Leadership Conference, the Executive Director of the Georgia Citizens' Coalition
on Hunger and the President of the State of Georgia NAACP will be among the speakers
present to lend their support to this historic event. The rally will be held MONDAY,
March 31, 2008 from 10:00 - 11:00 AM.

WHAT: 1ST ANNUAL RALLY IN SUPPORT OF MAKING THE BIRTHDAY (MARCH 31) OF FARM
WORKER LEADER CESAR E. CHAVEZ A NATIONAL HOLIDAY

WHEN: MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008

10:00 AM TO 11:00 AM

WHERE: ATLANTA - GEORGIA STATE CAPITOL BUILDING - SOUTH ATRIUM

http://www.galeo.org/event.php?event_id=0000000409

These people will stop at nothing to be in our face!

It's almost comical how the current group of OBL/ethnic pandering groups have tried to espouse the cause of the late Mr. Chavez.

Most probably don't know about, or are quick to discount this:
(Yes, it's Wiki and not considered a definitive source, but it does comport with many, many other reports I've seen as well. There are many others out there on the Web if you're a purist for source info...)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cesar_Chavez

Immigration

The UFW during Chávez's tenure was committed to restricting immigration. César Chávez and Dolores Huerta fought the Bracero Program that existed from 1942 to 1964. Their opposition stemmed from their belief that the program undermined U.S. workers and exploited the migrant workers. Their efforts contributed to Congress ending the Bracero Program in 1964. The UFW was one of the first labor unions to oppose employer sanctions—a federal law that prohibited hiring illegal immigrants in 1973. Later during the 1980s, while Chávez was still the UFW president, Dolores Huerta, the cofounder of the UFW, was key in getting the amnesty provisions into the 1986 federal immigration act. [2].

On a few occasions, concerns that illegal migrant labor would undermine UFW strike campaigns led to a number of controversial events, which the UFW describes as anti-strikebreaking events, but which have also been interpreted as being anti-immigrant. In 1969, Chávez and members of the UFW marched through the Imperial and Coachella Valleys to the border of Mexico to protest growers' use of illegal immigrants as strikebreakers. Joining him on the march were both Reverend Ralph Abernathy and U.S. Senator Walter Mondale.[3] In its early years, Chávez and the UFW went so far as to report illegal aliens who served as strikebreaking replacement workers, as well as those who refused to unionize, to the Immigration and Naturalization Service.[4][5][6][7][8]

In 1973, the United Farm Workers set up a "wet line" along the United States-Mexico border to prevent Mexican immigrants from entering the United States illegally and potentially undermining the UFW's unionization efforts.[9] During one such event in which Chávez was not involved, some UFW members, under the guidance of Chávez's cousin Manuel, physically attacked the strikebreakers, after attempts to peacefully persuade the illegal aliens not to cross the border failed.[10][11][12]

I went to the web site for the Cesar Chavez foundation and did not find any mention of his march to the border in 1969.
They don't mention it! Because they don't want to educate latinos in the fact that he was against using illegal labor!