Cesar Chavez Day Celebrated with Farm workers and their Untold Stories
March 25, 2021 - 04:29 PM
There are no classes this Wednesday, March 31 in honor of Cesar Chavez Day. The day
prior, Tuesday, March 30, from 3 to 5 p.m. the college鈥檚 ARISE program and El Centro
(a program that provides educational, cultural, and asocial programming to affirm
LatinX identity) will be holding a celebration to honor the Farm Workers and their
Untold Stories, honoring a movement that Chavez began.
The event will feature history and life experiences of the Farm Workers' Movement and will be highlighted by guest speakers, including Alex Edillor from the Filipino American National Historical Society (FAHNS).
One of the event organizers and Director of the Arise program, Dr. Aida Cuenza-Uva, said the event is a collaboration between Arise and AANAPISI because of the interconnecting stories. 鈥淲e will include untold stories of Filipina farm workers who don鈥檛 want their stories to be forgotten," said Cuenza-Uva. "Our communities are interconnected through their shared experiences."
Dr. Anabel Perez, Counselor/Coordinator of the Bridge 91直播 said, 鈥淥ften times farm worker stories are siloed and separated from one another."
FAHNS Delano Chapter Treasurer Roger Gadian will be speaking as well as Mt. 91直播 history
professor April Tellez.
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havez co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged
with the (AWOC) to become the (UFW) .
To tune in to the virtual zoom event, go to Zoom and input the meeting ID: 922 2519 0560.