Google Doodles Cesar Chavez on Sunday, March 31

[limpyhobbler]

I was expecting maybe the Easter bunny, but apparently today is also Cesar Chavez Day.

...In 2011, President Obama declared March 31 Cesar Chavez Day in recognition of the leader’s birthday. Obama now needs to make this a national holiday.

Chavez was a leader in the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s. Along with Dolores Huerta, he founded the United Farm Workers, a union dedicated to fighting for farm workers’ rights. They fought for bathrooms, safe housing, decent pay, safe tools. Later, they fought against pesticides.

To gain national attention to these efforts, Chavez and Huerta organized a grape boycott. Then in 1966, they led a famous 340-mile march from Delano, California to Sacramento. An image of Our Lady of Guadalupe led the march, reminding us that Chavez was a man of faith.

Chavez’s most recognized sacrifice is his 1968 fast in protest of unfair labor conditions. When the fast ended, Robert Kennedy joined Chavez for a meal.
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http://www.chicagonow.com/white-rhino/2013/03/google-doodles-cesar-chavez-on-sunday-march-31/

[Omaha Steve]

1. Nixon eats grapes

See the first two items in my journal.



http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=journals&uid=155620

K&R!

[limpyhobbler]

2. That's

a good journal entry Omaha Steve. I'm just a little too young to remember that stuff so I just got a little history lesson of sorts and I'm glad for it. Love those two videos.