Prsesident Barack Obama Establishes Chavez Monument

  

United Farm Workers co-founder and civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez. Obama established the Cesar Chavez monument in honor of the activist. (Photo/ drjohnsjournal)

Established in 2004 by the Cesar E. Chavez Foundation, the National Chavez Center at Nuestra Señora Reina de La Paz is the official, living memorial dedicated to the advancement of the legacy of Cesar Chavez. Obama established the Cesar Chavez monument in honor of the activist. (Photo/ Farmworker Justice via flickr)

Posted on October 2, 2012 By Raisa Camargo
   
President Barack Obama is paying homage to the farmworker movement by establishing the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument on behalf of its civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez.
Chavez’s grave site and California home called Nuestra Senora Reina de La Paz (Our Lady Queen of Peace) has been designated as the national Cesar Chavez monument. The property served as Chavez’s national headquarters and home since the 1970s until his death in 1993.
Rurally located in the Tehachapi Mountains of Kern County, California, the property serves as a historical reminder of the struggles Chavez endured side-by-side Dolores Huerta when they co-founded the United Farmworkers of America.
“Cesar Chavez gave a voice to poor and disenfranchised workers everywhere,” said President Obama in a statement. “La Paz was at the center of some of the most significant civil rights moments in our nation’s history, and by designating it a national monument, Chavez’s legacy will be preserved and shared to inspire generations to come.”
Obama is expected to be in Keene, California next week and on Oct 8., he will make the tribute official. He is also arriving a few days before Hispanic Heritage month officially culminates on Oct. 15.
From achieving basic worker protections for hundreds of thousands of farmworkers across the country to provisions ensuring drinking water was provided to workers in the fields, Chavez played an instrumental role. He also helped limit workers’ exposure to dangerous pesticides and established basic minimum wages and health care access for farm workers.
Chavez preached non-violence and civil disobedience. Through his tactics growers were forced to recognize the UFW as the bargaining agent for 50,000 field workers in California and Florida. After he passed away, Chavez’s legacy continues to this day muttered through the words of a famous slogan: Si se Puede.

Cesar Chavez monument a tribute to the activist

The presidential campaign has also enjoyed wide support with the help of grassroots movements such as the UFW and icons like Huerta to promote get-out-the vote initiatives in the Latino community. With days shy before the election, the move can only add to Obama’s favorability ratings.
Under the Antiquities Act, which was passed in 1906 by Congress, the president is allowed to use executive order to restrict the use of public land to be owned by the federal government. The location will also serve as a visitor’s center  containing Cesar Chavez’s office as well as the UFW legal aid offices, the home of Cesar and Helen Chavez, the Chavez Memorial Garden containing Chavez’s grave site, and additional buildings and structures at the La Paz campus.
The Cesar Chavez monument was years in the making, according to a White House press release


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Fresno's Shenzen Japense Friendship Garden Seeks Help 09-12-12

Casa Del Curandero supports this community endeavor to keep this wonderful sanctuary thriving for our community.


  Shinzen help sought
           Supporters of the Shinzen Japanese Garden in Fresno's Woodward Park are seeking the public's help to maintain the garden and raise funds for its upkeep.

Volunteers are asked to show up Saturday from 8 a.m. to noon to help weed, rake, dig, plant, sweep and water the garden. There is no city staff dedicated to maintaining the garden because of budget cuts.


For more information, contact Richard Kassabian at (559) 434-8880 or (559) 259-7404.

Also, the nonprofit Shinzen Garden Society will hold a fundraiser Saturday, Sept. 29 called "Moonlight in the Garden."

The event will run from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m. and include dinner, musical entertainment and a silent auction in the garden.

Information is available at www.shinzenjapanesegarden.org or by calling Tom Skelton at (559) 840-1264 or (559) 227-8940.

Read more here: http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/09/11/2988331/local-briefs-man-hurt-in-squaw.html#storylink=cpy

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Be bold and take the risk even if you don't know if the timing is right.  Don't wait until you have spent so much time exsaming if this is the right move that you make the right move to late. It is never to late to have what you dream if you act on it.

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Aging

There are three consciousness planes we can inhabit—three perspectives, we could call them—from which we can view our situation. As Number One, we are our egos—our bodies, our personalities, our every-day selves. As Number Two, we are our astral selves, what I've called our souls. And as Number Three, we are—well, let's not give it a name, because wars have been fought over what to call the Nameless. So for the moment, let's just call it Number Three.







When it comes to aging, we have a choice about where we're going to position ourselves, as we watch the phenomena that getting older entails. We can look at them from the ego's point of view, from Number One, and get all lost in our clingings, and our fears, and our dramas. Or we can flip the channel and look at those same events from the soul's point of view. We'll find that everything changes with that shift in perspective. The situation itself doesn't change, mind you, but our experience of it becomes a whole different thing. The soul won't be busy getting lost in all the "stuff" the way the ego is—the soul is just appreciating the incarnation, appreciating the unfolding of it all.

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