Cesar Chavez Day

[Kali]

some good local programming here (mostly musica but some spoken word/interviews too)
http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kxci/ppr/index.shtml




KXCI Commemorates César Chávez Wed. March 31, 3:00 p.m. to Midnight

Commemorating César Chávez
91.3 KXCI Tucson
www.kxci.org
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
3:00 p.m. to Midnight

On Wednesday, March 31, Tucson's Community Radio 91.3 KXCI will observe the legacy of César Chávez. 91.3 KXCI will be broadcasting from 3:00 p.m. to midnight on Wednesday, March 31. 91.3 KXCI is already home to great latino music every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to midnight. For César Chávez Day, Sabor Del Barrio host Pepe Galvez joins The Home Stretch from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.; DJ Javier will host Sabor Del Barrio from 6:00 p.m.-8:00pm; Ernesto Portillo, Jr., will host Onda Suave from 8:00 p.m.-10:00 pm; and Justin Enriqez will cap off the day with La Serenata from 10:00 p.m. to midnight.

César Chávez Day will be filled with great, relevant music interspersed with spoken word segments by people from the Tucson community. From 3:00 p.m. to midnight KXCI will feature brief interviews with local educators, community leaders, musicians and activists. These local voices will be woven into a blend of border music featuring selections from the United Farm Workers' movement, soulful sounds of that turbulent time period and contemporary socially relevant songs.

The historical struggles of César Chávez are still relevant today and many people in our border community continue to be inspired by his work.

Arizonan César E. Chávez was a second generation American born in Yuma on March 31, 1927. Inspired by Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King and Mother Teresa, Chávez and Dolores Huerta organized farm workers throughout California. They fought for better working conditions, better wages and for just treatment of workers by striking, boycotting and marching for the United Farm Workers Union. César E. Chávez died peacefully in his sleep on April 23, 1993 in in San Luis, Arizona.

KXCI airs locally at 91.3FM and webstreams at www.KXCI.org.

Additional information about César E. Chávez and local events is available from the Arizona César E. Chávez Holiday Coalition.

For interviews and more information about KXCI and this announcement, please contact: KXCI Producer Amanda Shauger at [e-mail] or 520-623-1000 ext.17.

[BunkerHill24]

1. Freeps would probably confuse this Chavez with another Chazes..n/t

[Kali]

2. shameless kick

good tunes!

[Kali]

3. nobody likes?

[Omaha Steve]

4. Note my avatar about Nixon buying boycotted grapes for the US Army

I remember the first time I was handed a UFW flyer. It said "Every grape you buy keeps this child hungry!". It had a photo of a young girl. I went home and told my mom and showed her the flyer. It was a very long time before I started eating grapes again.

I'm sorry I didn't see the post sooner. I have one in GD and one in the Labor Forum. K&R!

OS

[Kali]

5. I can just barely remember being at the store with my Mom

and wanting some grapes. She wouldn't buy them and tried to explain that the people who had to pick them were suffering and wanted us to stop buying them to try to make things better by forcing the bosses to lose money. An early memory of my parents' subtle liberalism.

[asdjrocky]

6. Thank you so much Kali.

This man, along with Dolores Huerta were a big part of Stockton, my home town. They did a lot of good for the community and for farm workers everywhere.

I have to say two of the biggest thrills of my life has been marching as a very young boy with Cesar Chavez and meeting Dolores Huerta, many years later.

Here's a snippet from a blog I found today about his work in Stockton in the early 50s.

In 1952, Cesar Chavez returned to civilian life in California after serving in the Navy and met a man named Fred Ross who trained him as a community organizer for the Community Services Organization (CSO), a Latino civil rights group. Like the civil rights organizations led by African-American activists in the South, the Stockton, California CSO, co-founded by Dolores Huerta–began to organize Mexican-Americans on the grass-roots level to implement social, economic, and political changes. Under Huerta’s leadership, Chavez worked with the CSO to begin a voter registration program for Hispanics, and to put pressure on politicians to provide equal services to poorer, predominantly ethnic neighborhoods in Stockton. The CSO also served to publicize cases of discrimination and police brutality against Mexican-Americans.
http://guanabee.com/2010/03/cesar-chavez-day/

Thanks again!

[Dramarama]

7. Memorial coming

:)
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/apr/02/nation/la-na-cesar-chavez2-2010apr02