As cities throughout the nation reel from stunning sexual misconduct allegations surrounding the late civil rights chief Cesar Chavez, San Antonio is now amongst these contemplating altering a road named in his honor.
Councilwoman Teri Castillo (D5), an in depth ally of organized labor, is asking for “group listening periods” to collect enter on a possible renaming of West Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard to one thing that extra carefully “displays our group’s values.”
“That is about listening to our group and guaranteeing their voices information choices that form our public areas,” Castillo stated in an announcement Wednesday.
The council renamed the historic Durango Boulevard after Chávez in 2011.
Within the wake of the accusations, Austin leaders are additionally calling for such adjustments surrounding their very own East Cesar Chavez Avenue.
Castillo additionally needs San Antonio to contemplate the way forward for town’s Cesar Chavez Day designation. The date, March 31, was made a federal vacation in 2014.
Earlier this month, San Antonio preemptively cancelled its Cesar Chavez march earlier than particulars of the accusations have been made public.
These now embody stunning allegations from Dolores Huerta, the co-founder of United Farm Staff of America, who stated she was “manipulated and pressured” into having intercourse with Chavez, leading to two pregnancies.
“I didn’t really feel I might say no as a result of he was somebody that I admired, my boss and the chief of the motion I had already devoted years of my life to,” Huerta stated in an announcement on Wednesday. “I carried this secret for so long as I did as a result of constructing the motion and securing farmworker rights was my life’s work.”
Huerta is one in every of a number of ladies who’ve come ahead with their tales in a New York Occasions investigation, together with at the very least one who was a minor on the time.
