{"id":227910,"date":"2026-03-20T03:11:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:11:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227910\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T03:11:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T03:11:10","slug":"city-county-move-to-re-name-march-31-holiday-that-honored-cesar-chavez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227910\/","title":{"rendered":"City, county move to re-name March 31 holiday that honored C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/a>A worn San Diego street sign bearing the name of the parkway that honors the late C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez. (Photo by Adrian Childress\/Times of San Diego) <\/p>\n

With the holiday that bears his name only days away, city and county officials on Thursday moved to shift attention away from C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez<\/a> and his now tarnished legacy. <\/p>\n

San Diego County Supervisor Paloma Aguirre said she would bring a resolution before the board on Tuesday that calls on the\u00a0federal government and the\u00a0state to rechristen the March 31 holiday, which coincides with Ch\u00e1vez\u2019s birthday, as Farm Workers Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n

San Diego Mayor Todd Gloria, said a spokeswoman, also is taking action to officially change the name of the holiday in the city. It is, however, part of the city\u2019s municipal code, so the alteration will require approval by the City Council. <\/p>\n

\u201cAn item will be brought forward for City Council consideration,\u201d she said, but did not specify a date.<\/p>\n

She added that all references to the holiday have been updated on the city\u2019s website. On a list of 2026 holidays<\/a> at sandiego.gov, March 31 is referred to only as a \u201ccity holiday.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other agencies removed references to Ch\u00e1vez, a titan in the labor movement, including San Diego Superior Court. In internet search results, the court lists a closure for C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day. But once the link is clicked<\/a> the language simply refers to the court being closed \u201con\u00a0Tuesday, March 31 pursuant to Code of Civil Procedure section 135.\u201d<\/p>\n

In a New York Times investigation published Wednesday two women accused<\/a> the late Ch\u00e1vez of sexual abusing them when they were underage, while Dolores Huerta, who worked alongside Ch\u00e1vez for decades, alleged that he sexually assaulted her<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The reaction has been swift, as activists, elected officials and even the organizations most closely associated with Ch\u00e1vez, such as the United Farm Workers union, moved to cancel events or remove his name or image<\/a> from the huge variety of streets, buildings and art exhibits \u2013 even the holiday \u2013 that long have honored him. <\/p>\n

Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass on Thursday signed a proclamation to rename the last Monday of March as \u201cFarm Workers Day\u201d in the city. She also announced her intent \u201cto assess the renaming of city landmarks in close coordination with the community and the City Council.\u201d<\/p>\n

Aguirre said her aim is \u201cto pivot the state\u2019s recognition away from a single individual and toward the collective resilience of the laborers, organizers, and women\u2014like Dolores Huerta\u2014who built the movement.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her proposal also directs county Chief Administrative Officer Ebony N. Shelton to bring an ordinance to the board that amends county code and compensation regulations to call the holiday Farm Workers Day, not C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe farmworker movement has always been bigger than one person,\u201d said Aguirre said. \u201cIt was\u00a0built\u00a0by workers, sustained by\u00a0communities\u00a0and led in large part by women whose\u00a0contributions\u00a0have too often gone unrecognized. Our responsibility is to ensure that how we honor this\u00a0history\u00a0reflects\u00a0that truth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A worn San Diego street sign bearing the name of the parkway that honors the late C\u00e9sar Ch\u00e1vez.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227911,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[16847,47,15895,74,76,75,3235],"class_list":["post-227910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-cesar-chavez","tag-los-angeles","tag-paloma-aguirre","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-todd-gloria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227911"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}