Complete with giant dog turd.
Posted on 03/31/2005 10:56:51 AM PST by StoneColdGOP
If Cesar Chavez were still alive, he would have wanted this day named in his honor to be more than a celebration, according to his friend, Father Patricio Guillen of Ontario.
"Everyone can celebrate, but we need to do more than celebrate," said Guillen, executive director of the San Bernardino-based immigrant service organization Libreria del Pueblo. "We need to continue to struggle, promote and defend the rights of farmworkers today, especially since many of them today are undocumented and they have greater problems as far as being able to organize." While Chavez is being commemorated today - his birthday - and the rest of the week in the Inland Empire, efforts are afoot to further engrave his memory in the minds of the community. Rep. Joe Baca, D-San Bernardino, is fighting to make Cesar Chavez Day a national, not just a state holiday.
"The (national) holiday my bill proposes will be more than just a day off; it requires schools to teach about the life and work of Cesar Chavez and the struggles of the farmworker movement," Baca said in a statement.
"All Americans should be aware of this chapter in our nation's history."
Baca has also introduced a bill that would award him a Congressional Gold Medal, the highest expression of national appreciation for distinguished achievements and contributions.
In San Bernardino, funds have been raised to build a bronze bust of Chavez at Cesar E. Chavez Middle School.
And in Riverside, a documentary on Chavez's life is being created by a partnership between a grass-roots community group called Latino Network and the Riverside County Office of Education.
"We wanted to preserve that history so our students remember who he was and why he is important to our specific part of the world, to Riverside County," said Ofelia Valdez-Yeager, the office's assistant to the superintendent.
Chavez, who founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, is noted as the nation's foremost Latino civil rights leader.
Events such as the 1960s grape boycotts that affected workers in Riverside County and marches led by Chavez in the area need to be noted and remembered, Valdez-Yeager said. Brenda Gazzar can be reached by e-mail brenda.gazzar@dailybulletin.com or by phone at (909) 483-9355.
State workers here in California get today off (for now). Meanwhile, those of us with an honest living in the private sector MIGHT be able to take President's Day off to honor Washington and Lincoln along with James Buchanan and Warren Harding.
Chavez, who founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, is noted as the nation's foremost Latino civil rights leader.
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If he were alive, maybe he would be a guest at the Bush ranch. Pardon the sarcasm, but it is VERY well placed.
He'd be Bush's Vice President.
Or chief of the DHS.
"Yippee....yet another paid day off!! Another day I don't have to work each year!!"....
I sat shaking my head in disbelief and shame. She makes six figures a year and works half as much. Hardly the message Mr. Chavez was trying to send.
Complete with giant dog turd.
Lenin's 100th birthday was the first "Earth Day". What a coincidence!
1. If you're a government employee in California, L.A. County in specific and NOT a cop, firefighter, etc. then you probably DON'T need yet another day off. Sorry, but that's that.
2. I'm not saying an employee of the government can't make an honest living. I am saying that government workers, by and large, make a much better one than many in the private sector when you look at off-time, holidays, retirement benefits, etc. Just look at the current battles going on in Sacto about just those issues and look at how hard and the ridiculous lengths the government employee union, ESPECIALLY the CTA is going to fight them.
3. Using the Internet is a part of my job, and Thursday is the slow day that I don't actually NEED to be here on.
"We need to continue to struggle, promote and defend the rights of farmworkers today, especially since many of them today are undocumented and they have greater problems as far as being able to organize."
An ironic statement considering that Chavez vehemently opposed illegal immigration because they drove down the wages for those working here legally.
Speaking of generalizations and clarifications... sheesh...
But if that PoS Rep. Joe (Jose) Baca thinks he's going to get the whole damned country to "celebrate" the life of an enemy of our way of life, he's got another thing coming. (On the other hand, I GLADLY celebrate the DEATH of any Communist, and will cheerfully dance, piss, and spit on the grave.)
"All Americans should be aware of this chapter in our nation's history."
What is it about these filthy leftists that drives them to force their positions on everyone else? I swear, socialism-slash-communism is like a proseletyzing religion to them. Anyone who disagrees is branded a heretic and apostate, and must be eliminated.
However, with the current attitudes regarding illegal aliens - oh, excuse my lack of ability to speak Orwellian Duckspeak - "undocumented workers", I don't think this leftist windbag has a snowball's chance in Hell of getting this "holiday" enacted into law on the national level.
Let's pray I'm right.
I don't believe I could compromise my principles by working for the state again. I was asked to participate in a cover-up of nepotism, at which time I promptly handed in my resignation.
http://www.mochinet.com/poets/service/index.cgi?ListTitles=Bar-Room%20Ballads&Poem=18
And there was Lenin, stiff and still, a symbol and a sign,
And rancid races come to thrill and wonder at his Shrine;
And hold the thought: if Lenin rot the Soviets will decay;
And there he sleeps and calm he keeps his watch and ward for aye.
Yet if you pass that frame of glass, peer closely at his phiz,
So stern and firm it mocks the worm, it looks like wax . . . and is.
They tell you he's a mummy - don't you make that bright mistake:
I tell you - he's a dummy; aye, a fiction and a fake.
This eye beheld the bloody bomb that bashed him on the bean.
I heard the crash, I saw the flash, yet . . . there he lies serene.
And by the roar that rocked the Tomb I ask: how could that be?
But if you doubt that deed of doom, just go yourself and see.
You think I'm mad, or drunk, or both . . . Well, I don't care a damn:
I tell you this: their Lenin is a waxen, show-case SHAM.
Such was the yarn he handed me,
Down there in Casey's Bar,
That Rooshun bug with the scrambled mug
From the land of the Commissar.
It may be true, I leave it you
To figger out how far.
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