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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - If anyone deserves a quiet retirement it's Dolores Huerta, but the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who raised 11 children even as she led marches and strikes that repeatedly put her in hospitals and jails, isn't slowing down. She re-learned how to walk in time to march on Sacramento last year after a near-fatal aneurism left her incapacitated. And now she's giving away a $100,000 award she recently received for her lifetime of service, to launch a new foundation in her name.

Chavez commemorative stamp on sale Thursday BY TRICIA CORTEZ Times staff writer A long-awaited commemorative postal stamp of Mexican-American leader and activist Cesar Chavez will go on sale Thursday at post offices nationwide. The United States Postal Service will print 75 million of these stamps, available for only one year. The release coincides with the 10th anniversary of Chavez' death. The stamp shows the profile of a smiling Chavez with agricultural fields in the background. "Cesar Chavez was so overwhelmingly requested as a stamp that yes, the (Cesar E. Chavez) Foundation worked with the postal service on this, but it...

Cesar Chavez stamp unveiled in San Jose April 24 (San Jose-AP) -- A new stamp honoring farm labor leader Cesar Chavez will be unveiled in San Jose next week. The Postal Service announced today the stamp will be unveiled at a ceremony April 24th at the Mexican Heritage Plaza. Lieutenant Governor Cruz Bustamante and Chavez's widow, Helen, will be on hand. Chavez founded the United Farm Workers Union. He died in 1993.

Which Way to Cesar Chavez? By JOHN GELUARDI (04-15-03) City Council’s effort to rename a major Berkeley street in honor of labor leader Cesar Chavez may be headed for a bump in the road. At its meeting April 8, the council unanimously approved the creation of a council subcommittee to study which major street, or streets, would be a good candidate for a possible name change. So far, possibilities include Ashby and University avenues and Gilman and Sacramento streets. One proposal would change two streets — Gilman and Sacramento, which nearly connect in northwest Berkeley — into one continuous...

<p>HOENIX - Before he died a decade ago, legendary United Farm Workers founder Cesar Chavez laid plans for a radio network that would tie together the immigrant farmworker community spread across the remotest ranches and farms in the Southwest.</p> <p>He lived long enough to see the first piece put into place; the first UFW-owned, nonprofit station went on the air in Visalia, Calif., in 1983. But it was tough to get anyone to listen to the rather dry political messages it broadcast.</p>

When Coloradoans went to the polls on November 5th,2002 they were asked to vote yes on Referendum E. "Shall the thirty- first day of March be designated a legal holiday for observing the birthday of Cesar Estrada Chavez as "Cesar Chavez day"?Approximately 80% of Coloradoans voted NO. This included counties such as Conejos and Costilla Counties in which hispanics are in the majority Initiatives and Referendums have become a tool of special interest groups to rally the voting population to the polls. However, sometimes they can backfire, as in the case of the Cesar Chavez referendum. Some believe that this...

PacificNews.Org NewCaliforniaMedia YouthOutlook BeatWithin PoetryTelevision Debug Roaddawgz PacificNews.Org > Content News Wire World Relations Beliefs Earth Ethnic Media Health Money Rights Society Youth Contributors Gallery About Us Programs Subscribe Contact Search Job Search NCM TV New California Media - The New America Now Chicano Activists Risk Hijacking Cesar Chavez LegacyBy Gustavo Arellano, Pacific News Service, March 26, 2002 Labor leader Cesar Chavez inspired low-paid agricultural workers from California to Florida. But as California observes Cesar Chavez Day this weekend, his memory is in danger of being hijacked by Chicano activists, who define the Chavez legacy in more narrow cultural...

Faced with the sometimes choppy waters of ethnic politics, the Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday could have used the navigating prowess of Christopher Columbus and the negotiating skills of Cesar Chavez. The touchy issue at hand: whether to allow 2,000 city employees to take Cesar Chavez Day as a paid city holiday instead of Columbus Day. The proposal drew a storm of protest from the Italian American community, including a letter of opposition signed by former Dodger Manager Tommy Lasorda, actor Joe Mantegna and Democratic strategist Joe Cerrell, among others. Italian Americans do not oppose declaring Cesar Chavez's birthday...