"We don’t need icons. We don’t need exalted, singular, near Christ-like figures who need to be seen as never doing any wrong for the good of a righteous cause. We need people who are willing to do the work and to work to create the kind of community in which victims feel they can come forward."

#CesarChavez #UnitedFarmWorkers #DoloresHuerta #SexualAbuse #pedophilia
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"Especially now, at a time when Latino immigrants are being demonized and face real danger from the Trump administration. Indeed, both Murguia and Rojas say that people pleaded with them not to come forward now, for fear that unscrupulous characters would use Chavez’s actions to further persecute people like them."

#CesarChavez #UnitedFarmWorkers #DoloresHuerta #SexualAbuse #pedophilia
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"Their stories are heartbreaking, even moreso because, on top of having to live with the assaults, they have felt they had to hide them in order to protect the movement and the work Chavez did on behalf of Latinos and farm workers writ large."

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"Then, this morning, The New York Times published a deeply researched and damning report on how Chavez sexually assaulted at least two young women, and also raped his most prominent ally in the movement, Dolores Huerta, who came forward about this for the first time at the age of 95."

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"On Tuesday, the United Farm Workers (UFW) announced that they would not be celebrating Chavez’s birthday this year, on account of some unspecified allegations of 'inappropriate behavior by Cesar Chavez with young women and minors.'”

~ Robyn Pennacchia

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https://www.wonkette.com/p/cesar-chavez-is-why-we-dont-need

Cesar Chavez Is Why We Don't Need Any More Icons

Chavez's status as a movement leader allowed him to (allegedly) assault women without fear of getting caught.

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#Farmworkers #Boycott #ImmigrantRights #PDX #Oregon #PNW #unitedfarmworkers #UFW #Mushrooms
Sorry about the link being from google it's the only one that seemed to work for me🙄

Boycott Windmill Farms Mushrooms
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In a #strike under the #UnitedFarmWorkers union, lettuce grower #RufinoContreras of #ImperialValley, #California, was murdered by a farm foreman on #ThisDayInHistory in 1979. His killer was not even prosecuted. Violence in the struggle for #workers' rights & dignity is the norm.

Remembering Rick Garcia, a leader in the fight for LGBTQ+ equality in Chicago and Illinois

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.advocate.com/news/people/remembering-chicago-activist-rick-garcia

December 4, 1970 - Cesar Chavez was sentenced to 20 days in jail for refusing to call off the United Farm Workers’ consumer boycott of Bud Antle, Inc., the country’s second largest lettuce grower. Antle had signed a contract with Teamsters Local 890 though only 5% of the workers voted to ratify it. Nor had there ever been an election for the workers to choose a union to represent them. The boycott had been called to pressure Antle to negotiate with the Farm Workers.

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