This is not good.

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

This is not good.

Guess we won't have to wait for Trump to rename Cesar Chavez Ave back to Brooklyn Ave in Boyle Heights and East LA.

It was "La Brooklyn" when I lived there 60+ years ago.

And to generations of others.

#losangeles
https://abc7news.com/post/deeply-troubling-allegations-cesar-chavez-prompt-united-farm-workers-cancel-celebrations/18725661/
via ABC7 News App

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

@SrRochardBunson In any event,this is troubling.

Cesar Chavez Day is 3/31. An official holiday in California.

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

@SrRochardBunson Definitely troubling.

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

'Profoundly shocking' allegations against Cesar Chavez spark soul-searching in movement

Celebrations of farmworker leader Cesar Chavez are being canceled nationwide as the UFW confronts allegations of sexual misconduct with women and minors.

Los Angeles Times (www.latimes.com)

[iveyjanette@mastodon.social]

This is troubling.

And why now?

He's been dead for decades. https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-03-18/cesar-chavez-raped-girls-fellow-labor-icon-dolores-huerta-newspaper-investigation-says

[davidm_yeg@mstdn.ca]

@IveyJanette

“This is troubling.”

Putting people on pedestals is a bad idea, they have a disturbing tendency to fall off.

“And why now?”

Because it would have been impossible 20, or even 10 years ago… in part precisely *because* he’s been dead for decades, but I think more because the voices and bravery of countless women have made it so that some of us are willing to finally hear them rather than sweeping things under the carpet.