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Fil-Ams succeed in renaming school after farm labor heroes
Union City :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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CaliforniaIt's officialItliong-Vera Cruz Middle School will be the first school in the nation named after Filipino-American heroes. After facing months of campaigning by the Fil-Am community, the New Haven Unified Board of Education on Tuesday night
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New Haven school board leaning toward renaming school after Filipino-American leaders
Union City :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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A majority of the New Haven school board will vote next month to rename a school in honor of two Filipino-American leaders, said board members at a meeting Tuesday, hours after 150 people demonstrated nearby in support of the idea. Jonas Dino was one
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Plan to rename Union City school sparks controversy
Union City :: CA :: USA | 2 months ago
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A proposal to rename Alvarado Middle School has sparked controversy within New Haven Unified, with one side urging the school board to honor the city's large Filipino community, while opponents say that would detract from the area's diversity and
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Fil-Ams want Calif. school named after farm worker heroes
Vera Cruz :: Brazil | 3 months ago
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Last year their names were top finalists in the last round of school renaming. The school district board acknowledged the Filipino American community's patience after we got passed over in favor of other names in the past, explains Santiago, who is
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Dick Meister: Dolores Huerta merits our highest honor
Stockton :: CA :: USA | 11 months ago
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TV Newsroom, is co-author of "A Long Time Coming: The Struggle To Unionize America's Farm Workers" (Macmillan). Contact him through his website, www.dickmeiste.com , which includes more than 350 of his columns. How fitting it is that Dolores Huerta
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Dick Meister: Cesar Chavez: A true American hero
Delano :: CA :: USA | 1 year ago
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TV Newsroom, has covered labor and politics for more than a half-century. He's the co-author of "A Long Time Coming: The Struggle To Unionize American's Farm Workers" (Macmillan). Contact him through his website, www.dickmeister.com I hope we can all
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Dolores Huerta: "Don't be a marshmallow! Stop being vegetables! Work for justice!"
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | over 1 year ago
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Part four of a five part daily series on the Farmworkers) "When I think of Dolores Huerta," playwright and filmmaker Luis Valdez once said, "I think of earth. Powerful, beautiful, fecund, challenging, conscious, yet so incredibly delicate." She's
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National Park Service seeking sites affiliated with Cesar Chavez
San Jose :: CA :: USA | 2 years ago
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Most of the likely sites are in Kern County, where Chavez had the headquarters of the United Farm Workers. Graceada Park in Modesto, where he held at least one rally, is on a park service list of 62 sites with weaker connections. The agency launched
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