{"id":229319,"date":"2026-03-21T00:00:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229319\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T00:00:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:00:07","slug":"californias-political-reckoning-with-cesar-chavezs-legacy-after-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/229319\/","title":{"rendered":"California&#8217;s Political Reckoning with Cesar Chavez&#8217;s Legacy After Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/18\/us\/cesar-chavez-sexual-abuse-allegations-ufw.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times investigation<\/a> has triggered swift condemnation and political upheaval in California, after uncovering allegations of sexual abuse of girls and women, including the rape of revered labor leader Dolores Huerta by the late farmworker legend Cesar Chavez. The revelations have prompted state and local leaders to consider renaming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/news\/12077059\/san-francisco-fought-to-name-a-major-street-after-cesar-chavez-will-it-be-renamed-again\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">streets<\/a>, schools and has already changed the official March 31 state holiday to \u201cFarmworkers Day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott and Marisa sit down with KQED\u00a0Labor Correspondent Farida Jhabvala Romero and Los Angeles Times columnist Anita Chabria to discuss how farmworkers, labor activists, and politicians are reacting to these revelations and what they mean for Chavez\u2019s legacy and the future of the farmworker movement.<\/p>\n<p>Check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kqed.org\/newsletters\/political-breakdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Political Breakdown\u2019s weekly newsletter<\/a>, delivered straight to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A New York Times investigation has triggered swift condemnation and political upheaval in California, after uncovering allegations of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":{"0":"post-229319","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-california","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-california-headlines","10":"tag-california-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319","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=229319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}