allegations that Chavez sexually assaulted women decades ago.<\/a><\/p>\nSan Francisco Assessor Joaqu\u00c3\u00adn Torres, who sat on the working group to rename the street, said the final decision came down to either “Si Se Puede” or “Las Campesinas.”<\/p>\n
“Today we’re very happy that we’re forwarding Las Campesinas as the new name for Cesar Chavez Street,” Torres said. “In honor of the nameless and faceless women who endure harrowing conditions.”<\/p>\n
Supervisor vote<\/p>\n
Local perspective<\/p>\n
Supervisor Jackie Field formally introduced legislation to change the street name at Tuesday’s Board of Supervisors meeting. While some San Franciscans advocated for other names, others expressed concern that “Las Campesinas” would be difficult to pronounce or confusing for non-Spanish speakers.<\/p>\n
Torres expressed confidence that the city can adapt to the transition.<\/p>\n
“San Francisco is a city that knows how, we’ve done street name changes before we can do it again,” Torres said. “I like so many residents and merchants expect the mayor and city departments to make this as seamless a process as possible.”<\/p>\n
At the intersection of Mission and Cesar Chavez streets, residents shared mixed views on the proposed name, though all agreed a change was necessary.<\/p>\n
“The street must be renamed because Cesar Chavez did some troubling things,” San Francisco resident Guillermo Gomez Pe\u00c3\u00b1a said, though he added that he found the proposed name “corny” and suggested inviting poets to contribute more interesting options.<\/p>\n
Other residents expressed strong support for the change.<\/p>\n
“Yeah, I kind of love that,” San Francisco resident Jodie Lail said. “There are so many cities and streets that are named after men. So, I think it’s great to have a street named after the hard working women.”<\/p>\n
San Francisco resident Triece Kushner agreed, emphasizing the significance for women of color.<\/p>\n
“Women are often overlooked especially women of color,” Kushner said. “I think it’s very important to be able to not only recognize the power in women of color, but recognize that they are why we are here today.”<\/p>\n
San Francisco legislative process remains underway<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
Changing the street name to Las Campesinas is not yet a done deal. The proposed name change must go through the Land Use Committee, providing opportunities for public comment, and undergo review by the Department of Public Works. Ultimately, the Board of Supervisors must approve the change and the mayor must sign off on it.<\/p>\n
If approved, street signs with both the old and new names will remain up for five years.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
There is currently no timeline for how long the overall process will take.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information in this story came from previous reporting on allegations against Cesar Chavez and interviews with San Francisco Assessor Joaqu\u00c3\u00adn Torres and residents in the area of the soon-to-be renamed street.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief San Francisco city leaders are moving forward with renaming Cesar Chavez Street to “Las Campesinas” to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-504201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504201","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=504201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}