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A worker boards up the pedestal where a bust of the late United Farm Workers union co-founder César Chávez previously stood in Denver’s Cesar Chavez Park as signs reading “Dolores Huerta Park” are pasted onto the wooden boards (OSV News photo/Kevin Mohatt, Reuters).

‘Our Latino People’

Charting a new path after the Chavez revelations.
by Claudia Avila Cosnahan via Commonweal on April 7, 2026
Cezar Chavez and the National Executive Board of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in California circa 1975.

Power and Abuse in the United Farm Workers

Alleged sexual violence by Cesar Chavez reflects not just one leader’s failure, but a broader system of control within the UFW.
by Nahomi Linda Esquivel via Dissent on April 16, 2026
Crew covers a mural of Cesar Chavez mural at Santa Ana College

Cesar Chavez Was No Border Hawk

The labor organizer has been outed as a sex predator.
by Scott Greer via The American Conservative on April 11, 2026
Chavez in Salinas, California, in 1979.

What Cesar Chavez Cost the Movement

His crimes against women and his 'too big to fail' persona created immeasurable harm.
by Matt Garcia via Zócalo Public Square on March 19, 2026
The United Farm Worker’s 1,000 Mile March, 1975.

How Unions Are Made

A new history of labor organizing in Coachella tells us the story of the United Farm Workers and how its rank-and-file members drove the union to success.
by Juan Ignacio Mora via The Nation
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on March 19, 2024
Fred Ross with Cesar Chavez at a demonstration in Los Angeles on February 3, 1982.

Fred Ross Changed Community Organizing

He started in the 1930s farmworker camps that inspired John Steinbeck’s novels and went on to pioneer methodical tactics that transformed American organizing.
by Peter Dreier via Jacobin
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on August 28, 2025
Television camera operator at work.
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Latino Empowerment Through Public Broadcasting

How Latinos have used public radio and television to communicate their cultures, histories, hopes, and concerns.
by Alexandra García, Gabriela Rivera via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 23, 2021
Farmworkers in a field.
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During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Immigrant Farmworkers Are Heroes

Our thanks should be recognizing the crucial role they play in our society.
by Eladio Bobadilla via Made By History on March 31, 2020
Time magazine covers featuring women.

100 Women of the Year

From Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century.
via TIME on March 5, 2020

America's Few Latino Historical Sites Languish, Forgotten and Decaying

A makeshift memorial in New Mexico dedicated to Hispanic Union soldiers "looks like just a taco stand, without any tacos."
by Associated Press via NBC News on October 14, 2018

Well-Behaved Women Make History Too

What gets lost when it’s only the rebel girls who get lionized?
by Joanna Scutts via Slate
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on June 21, 2018

The Problem With Philanthropy

A new book asks: Can the surplus of capitalist exploitation be used to aid those on whose backs this surplus is generated?
by Cassandra Ritas via Public Books on February 8, 2017
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