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Delano, Again
Kay W.
April 01, 2025
San Diego workers and union members traveled to Delano early Monday, joining thousands for a César Chávez Day rally to honor immigrant laborers and protest current deportation policies.
Delano is the Central Valley city where, in 1966, César Chávez began his 25-day march to Sacramento — a historic moment both for farmworker rights and the national civil rights movement.
In an interview with 10 News, Arturo Suarez said that's why he was making the trip.
"Me being able to go to school, get a job, pursue my career, my dreams — it's only because a very strong, proud immigrant was willing to break their back day in and day out to give me what I have now," Suarez said.
Since President Donald Trump took office, immigrant communities say they have been increasingly targeted by raids. People without criminal records and some with legal status in the U.S. have been deported.
The United Farm Workers, one of the unions behind Monday's rally, says it views federal deportation policies as an attack on the Latino community and working-class people.
The Trump Administration is also moving against labor unions. Last week, Trump signed an executive order ending collective bargaining rights for some federal workers.
Here’s the National Park Service site on Delano and the history of the United Farmworkers - save it because the fascist Right are sure to censor this information.
Speaking of censorship, I can’t be the only one who remembers the five year freakout about “cancel culture”, can I? Remember the big dramatic “Harpers Letter” where the world’s most over-rated writers complained that people sometimes criticized them and portrayed this criticism as censorship?
Now that the government is imprisoning people for criticizing US policy in Gaza (and speaking on other forbidden topics, like the history of anti Black racism in the US) have any of these supposed “public intellectuals” said a word about this actual state enforced censorship?
Of course not. Because they’re completely full of shit. It’s easy to attack Lefty undergraduates and complain about “cancel culture”. It’s much harder to dare to oppose the actual fascists now in power shutting down speech. Now that the real thing is here our free speech warriors are nowhere to be found.
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