Cesar Chavez Park!

(Xispas received the following e-mail from a community activist. The letter concerns naming a park after the great Chicano labor leader, Cesar Chavez, founder of the United Farm Workers. Chavez electrified the Mexican American community in the 1960’s by organizing agricultural workers into the UFW in order to win better working conditions. In doing so Chavez also brought pride, dignity, and a feeling of self-worth to a people long downtrodden. ¡Viva la Causa!)

Our community in Van Nuys has been working for over a year in an effort to name our new recreation center in honor of Cesar Chavez (the center is currently named "Delano Recreation Center"). We have collected over 1,000 signatures from the community in support of this effort, but there is a small constituent of well-connected individuals within the city of Los Angeles who are in strong opposition to this effort; but who, instead, are directing their efforts in naming the center in honor of Cindy Miscikowsky, a previous Los Angeles City Council Person for the area. I'm sending this e-mail to beg for your help by sending a strong message to the Los Angeles Park and Recreation Commissioners to support the name CESAR CHAVEZ DELANO RECREATION CENTER. The Los Angeles Park and Recreation Commissioners are meeting to address the naming of the center on Wednesday, March 16, at 9:30 a.m. If you cannot make this meeting, Please email the Commissioners at commissions@rap.lacity.org