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Two dozen people journeyed across campus Tuesday holding banners and singing chants such as "Si Se Puede" in a re-enactment of a march Cesar Chavez led in 1966. The march began near the Fourth Street garage, traveling down Paseo de San Antonio and through the Cesar Chavez Memorial Arch to the Student Union Amphitheater where activists, farm workers and Chavez's grandson spoke. "It's really good to see activities happening here, basically where some consider the movement started in San Jose," said Paul

It's really good to see activities happening here, basically where some consider the movement started in San Jose   -Paul Chavez

 

The debate over health care reform got louder Tuesday morning in the form of protests as supporters and opponents of the proposed legislation squared off outside Congressman Jim Costa's office in downtown Bakersfield. The months long debate over health care erupted into chants, arguments and screams from both sides outside Costa's office. It was an 8 a.m. rally dubbed "Time to Finish the Job", but the raucous scene shows there is still plenty of debate and division amongst the American people when it

And we have every developed country has national healthcare except the United States of America, so it's time for us to have national health care.   -Dolores Huerta

 

It's going to take a lot more than a letter to convince the historically hard-to-count Latino community to answer the 10 census questions arriving in the mail this week. So the census bureau brought in a short, 79-year-old woman in a black beret — Dolores Huerta. "How important is that form we're going to get in the mail? It's just as important as your birth certificate, as important as your passport," Huerta told about 100 residents and regional leaders at the Wenatchee Community Center Saturday nigh

How important is that form we’re going to get in the mail? It’s just as important as your birth certificate, as important as your passport   -Dolores Huerta

 

Mayor Gavin Newsom fired off a mass e-mail this morning that touted his fairly impressive list of endorsements thus far for lieutenant governor. There was just one small problem: United Farm Workers co-founder "Delores Huerta" spells her name like the vast majority of women named Dolores. See also: Dolores Park. Mission Dolores School .  

Labor rights advocate Dolores Huerta is making a return visit to Salem today. Huerta will be in town to take part in a forum. She was in Salem in October to deliver the 20th annual Salem Peace Lecture at Willamette University.  

The State Board of Education on Wednesday renewed its discussion about the state's social studies curriculum and which public figures should be featured prominently in textbooks. The board also discussed the role Christianity should play in the social studies curriculum and debated nuances in language that could influence interpretation of historic events. Board members discussed the use of terminology in textbooks that could color perspectives on historic events.

We're not recognizing those groups at an appropriate level   -Norma Chavez

 

Scores of Texans brought their versions of history before the State Board of Education Wednesday, and before national news media drawn to the board's months-long struggle to satisfy conflicting ideas on how religions and human actors shaped the nation and world – or shaped them enough to mention in public school textbooks. The 15-member board debated high school world history late into the night, sometimes showing the frustration evident at a public hearing earlier in the day. Some speakers wanted textb

is not a good role model for our students to study   -Dolores Huerta

 

WASHINGTON , March 8.— To coincide with International Women's Day, a group of U.S. public figures sent a letter to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Janet Napolitano, secretary of homeland security, respectively, calling on their government to immediately grant humanitarian visas to Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez so that they may visit their husbands imprisoned in the United States. The letter's signatories are U.S. members of the International Commission for the Right to Family Visits, which comp

will show the world that we are represented by elected officials who want better relations with other nations and who have compassionate and humanitarian hearts.   -Gerardo Hernandez

 

As the State Board of Education sits down this week to review proposed social studies standards, critics say the board could stand a history lesson of its own before setting the standards for public school students. Among the choices the board has made this year: • The board voted to pull a popular children's book author after confusing him with the author of a book about Marxism. •

Experienced review committees, invited experts, and the public provide their feedback early in the process before the State Board of Education closes the door in order to do what they want to do   -Keith Erekson