Posted on 03/31/2006 1:40:59 PM PST by RightField
SAN DIEGO -- Courts and San Diego city and county government offices will be closed Friday for Cesar Chavez Day.
Refuse and recyclables will be collected one day later in the city of San Diego, according to the city's Mona Favorite-Hill. Garbage collection will return to its normal schedule on Monday.
Tickets won't be issued for expired parking meters or parking in areas scheduled for street sweeping, Favorite-Hill said. All other parking restrictions will be in effect and enforced.
All city and county branch libraries will be closed, as will the city of San Diego's community service centers, police storefronts, recreation centers and pools.
Balboa Park, Mission Bay and Torrey Pines municipal golf courses will be open, at holiday rates, according to Favorite-Hill.
County parks, preserves, community centers and teen centers will stay open tomorrow, according to the county's Luis Monteagudo Jr.
Essential services, including the Sheriff's Department, will also operate as normal, Monteagudo said.
Cesar Chavez Day was established to mark the birthday of the late founder of the United Farm Workers of America. Chavez was credited with helping improve labor conditions and pay for agricultural workers.
I beg to differ. Chavez was only out for Chavez. I lived it firsthand. See my post above. I know how the farm workers felt when Chavez and his gang rolled into our town. They were terrified of him.
A lot of people dont know that. While he was clearly a union guy, he was adamantly against illegal immigration and even let protests against it.
Ultimately, his effort to unionize the field workers, provide them with a safer work environment and better wages failed. The agriculture industry was able to import the greatest influx of illegal immigration during the 70s and 80s and wiped Chavez and crew off the map.
thank you so much for sharing that..I think it is very important to publicize the truth about the thug who prompts a state holiday... more people need to know!
Time the truth was out about this guy.
FRegards,
Have you ever seen where he called home in CA? It looked like a plantation. He lived in a huge "main" house. Gorgeous. However, the shacks that surrounded it were hovels. That's where the workers lived. He charged a huge amount (for that time) for "union dues", money that the workers could no longer send to their families.
I am in no way for illegal immigration but please do not say that Chavez did anything to benefit the migrant workers. That is the myth that now is presented as fact. He forced them to join his union by beating them up, threatening them, blocking their way into the fields, and following them at the end of the day to where their wives and daughters were.
OK, I was just a kid at the time, all i really remember is the boycotts, and stuff,I always defer to those who were on the site so to speak, that is why I said "some good" I should have put it into quotion marks.. thanks CAl
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