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Why the U.S. Senate Isn’t Celebrating Cesar Chavez
3:15 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · California|history|Immigration|Washington DC · 1 Comment
2 Apr 2007
This past weekend Chicano labor and human rights activist Cesar Chavez would have celebrated his 80th birthday. While some in California enjoyed Friday off from school as an official holiday and others walked out of school, others in Arizona, where Chavez was born and raised marched. Who didn’t celebrate the late Cesar Chavez? The U.S. Senate.
Senate Democratic leaders joined pro-immigrant groups to chastise Republicans for rejecting a resolution in honor of the late Mexican-American labor leader and civil rights activist Cesar Chavez. The resolution, sponsored by two Democratic lawmakers and defeated, would have honored the Chavez legacy on the eve of what would have been his 80th birthday.
Why did the resolution not pass? Because of Chavez’s participation in a march against undocumented immigrants.
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