#cesar chavez

[alanshemper]

There is a big expose on Ceser Chavez today in the NYT. Dolores Huerta just released a statement

[nagi-kirima-style-cateran]

Between Noam Chomsky allegedly being friends with Epstein and Cesar Chavez being accused of rape I think we need to bring back the idea that power is inherently corrupting and people are capable of great good and great evil at the same time because they are human.

[carnivorous-flowerr]

We in the latino community need to have serious conversation about machismo and the protection of our women and children. Hey so domestic violence, SA, homophobia, physical and emotional abuse have been targeting us for generations and for generations women have bit their tongue and swallowed pain for own personal reasons whether fear, protection of family, not having their story believed. People don’t get to decide when a SA victim decides to speak up or the “proof” of the assault. Being a survivor is the fucking proof. Reliving trauma is feeling trapped in your body that’s screaming of pain. Fuck this machismo bullshit and thank you to Dolores Huerta for sharing her story. We see ourselves in her.

[nobrashfestivity]

Today is labor day, a good day to remember that Apple, a huge exploiter of workers, used this picture of labor leader Cesar Chavez to advertise their products, proving irony was dead a lot longer ago than you think.

[kennedycore]

Senator Robert F. Kennedy with activists and NFWA co-founders Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez, 1968.

[jeannereames]

Bad people can do good & astonishing things

All the current allegations against Cesar Chavez reminds me of that maxim. What he and his fellows accomplished for farm workers was undeniably crucial.

Doesn't mean he wasn't a rather terrible human being on other fronts, and honors in his name should absolutely be removed. This also might be a good time to realize that, while he led the movement, it wasn't a one-man show. Others (including one of his main accusers) were crucial to the labor movement's success. It just occurred at a time when women's contributions to such things were routinely minimized. (Hidden Figures.)

As someone who studies Alexander the Great, this is a paradox I wrestle with all the time. How do we acknowledge the astonishing while condemning the immoral? Too often, people can't hold such contradictory things in their minds at once, which can lead to simplistic readings of history. That, frankly, fucks with our ability to properly understand our own past. And our future.

Let it be complex. Don't throw out the baby with the bathwater. But don't suggest all you have is a baby in clean water, either.

[thehummingbirdsound]

This Cesar Chavez news is so upsetting. I cannot imagine being one of his victims and seeing him lauded and honored everywhere in California for so many years.

The New York Times article is very well written and reported but I wouldn't read it if you think it might harm you (there are descriptions of grooming, sexual assault, and rape of both children and young women - as well as prominent labor organizations choosing not to investigate the allegations).

They need to rename everything that has his name immediately.

[ultrakeencollectionbreadfan]

I was looking for Latino men who might serve as an alternative to Cesar Chavez, and ended up striking the mother lode:

Juan De Dios Gonzalez - Wikipedia

Ernesto Galarza - Wikipedia

Bert Corona - Wikipedia

These are just some of the names I found. Hopefully, people will start paying more attention to them now.