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California Holiday Would Honor Chavez
The late Cesar Chavez, the United Farm Workers founder who touched millions of lives with his fight for labor rights, is likely to have a state holiday named for him.
A bill to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day each March 31, his birthday, was passed by Democrats in the California Senate and is expected to sail through the state Assembly. However, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, hasn’t announced his position. The holiday would be a paid day-off for state and school employees.
“Cesar was a voice for the voiceless,” Sen. Richard Polanco, the bill’s author, said in the Sacramento Bee. “Cesar created hope for those who had lost it, and he believed in the principle of nonviolence.”
All of the senate’s 15 Republicans abstained from the Jan. 31 vote. They sat silently at their desks or were absent from the chamber, the Bee reported.
A bill to celebrate Cesar Chavez Day each March 31, his birthday, was passed by Democrats in the California Senate and is expected to sail through the state Assembly. However, Gov. Gray Davis, a Democrat, hasn’t announced his position. The holiday would be a paid day-off for state and school employees.
“Cesar was a voice for the voiceless,” Sen. Richard Polanco, the bill’s author, said in the Sacramento Bee. “Cesar created hope for those who had lost it, and he believed in the principle of nonviolence.”
All of the senate’s 15 Republicans abstained from the Jan. 31 vote. They sat silently at their desks or were absent from the chamber, the Bee reported.