Subject: Cesar Chavez

• And they say Mexicans can't assimilate...

  Spotted for sale last night in one of those SanTana produce trucks the city's pocho City Council so hates was a Kellogg's Corn Flakes box with pictures of salsa legend Celia Cruz and Chicano labor icon Cesar Chavez. We figured it was pirateria, something as authentic as sidewalk CDs or swap meet Bart Simpson T-shirts, until we stumble across this website. Where the hell were we in September that we just found out about this? Stanton? What's even better is that the produce truck selling the Chave

  December 30, 2005

• The Chicano All-Stars Strike Back

  There are few things lamer than Chicano yaktivists whining about negative coverage that shed light on sordid truths. It happened earlier this year when the Los Angeles Times published an epic four-part series on the once-proud United Farm Workers, an organization that went from the moral center of the post-King American civil rights movement into a group that places founder Cesar Chavez on corn flakes boxes. Rather than admit they've strayed from their path, the UFW responded with lawsuit threat

  March 20, 2006

• Cesar Chavez Legacy, Half-Off!

  As if the once-proud United Farm Workers couldn't get any lamer (see tiny-ass picture below), along comes a UFW spring sale. "Sooner or later the march ends and you have to go home," goes their breathless pitch. "Bummer...but don't just sit there! You can still remember Cesar Chavez and support the farm workers' cause with 20% off on books, posters, audio/video and other goodies to brighten your décor and outook on life." Amongst the crap offered are coffee mugs, mouse pads ("Re-installin

  April 12, 2006

• UFW vs. LAT

  The United Farm Workers union, founded by the late Cesar Chavez, is firing back at the Los Angeles "By God" Times over last month's four-part series alleging all kinds of financial shenanigans and union ineffectiveness. But the UFW won't have that series' writer, Miriam Pawel, to kick around anymore. As LA Observed reports, Pawel applied for the employee buyout back in November and was accepted. Her departure was delayed so she could see the UFW series into the paper. LAO observes that with Pawe

  February 6, 2006

• Californias Misadventures

  February 22, 2001

• No, Gracias

  January 31, 2002

• Busty Bustamante Losing Sense of Reality

  *Updated, with new info on the bottom... I will always be a fan of Art Pedroza, the county's original political blogger and the man behind Orange Juice!, because he's living proof that people's political philosophies can change—in Art's case, he went from a homo-hating, MEChA-bashing Republican to a Prop. 8-opposing virtual Aztlanista who tells it like it is, damn public opinion. Nevertheless, Art has an uphill battle in his campaign to wrest the SanTana City Council's Ward Three seat from Bu

  October 29, 2008

• Jerry, Be Wary

  January 31, 2008

• Artwork Depicting Martyred Peace Advocates Spun Into Film

  You may recall Laguna Beach's Tim Leedom from his books about the evils of organized religion. Or his TV and film production work. Or his carrers as a college-football player and NFL scouting facilitator. Or his time in Hawaii's offices of power. Or his publishing companies. Leedom's latest project brushes up against at least a couple of these areas. His Newport Beach-based American Nation Films has begun filming the documentary Satyagraha, which was Mahatma Gandhi'

  February 16, 2009

• [Special Screenings] Local Showings of 'Aliens,' 'Casablanca,' 'Happy Go Lucky,' More

  April 2, 2009

• The OC Connection to KPFK's Anti-Semitic Show

  Type "Augustin Cebada" on YouTube to hear his take on plain ol' white folk!The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles has a fascinating article in tomorrow's edition about "La Causa," a show that airs Wednesdays at 9:30 p.m. on KPFK-FM 90.7 and is hosted by a 1960s refugee who calls himself Augustin Cebada (not his real name) and allows some of the worst anti-Semitic bile to soil Southern California since La Voz de Aztlan--and more on that connection in a bit! I'm quoted in the piece by reporter

  March 18, 2009

• Overheard at an OC Courthouse!

  Child Left Behind"No, the courthouse was closed yesterday because of something called 'Senior Chavez Day' and I'm pissed. (Ten-second pause.) I don't know. I think it has something to do with old Mexicans."--Twenty-something caucasian female, who apparently escaped high school without knowing the key California historical identity of Cesar Chavez, on her cell phone this morning while entering an Orange County Superior Courthouse. More frightening: she could be sitting on a jury!  

  April 1, 2009

• Law-Enforcement Claims Historic Chicano Mural in Orange Sensationalizes Gangs-30 Years Later

  April 9, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

  February 26, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Cesar Chavez's Street Cred

  January 15, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Cherry-Picking César Chávez

  July 3, 2008

• [¡Ask a Mexican!®] Special Last Column Edition

  March 27, 2008

• Sisterly Concern

  UFW legend Dolores Huerta wonders why her old friends who run the St. Joseph's hospitals have turned on their own workers

  December 20, 2007

• Sister Knows Best

  If the nuns in charge of the St. Joseph Health System are so pro-labor,why are some of their employees determined to unionize?

  November 29, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!(r)

  October 4, 2007

• Letters

  Your Story is probably BS

  November 24, 2005

• Go Forth and Conquer Great Park, Muralists and Street Artists

  Paint a beautiful mural in the barrio, and they say you're promoting gang violence around here. But scribble your chicken scratches with chalk on a sidewalk, and you're exploring "the imagination and vision of the Great Park."Clockwork hereby calls on artists "of all ages" who can draw a mean Aztec warrior, Cesar Chavez, strawberry picker, Lowrider Magazine-worthy babe or--someone really befitting those Irvine commies--Che Guevara to descend on the Orange County Great Park Corporation's jewel of

  April 15, 2009

• A Union-Busting Habit

  The sisters who run St. Joseph Health System are often pro-labor—but apparently not at their hospitals

  August 16, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican! Web Especial

  The great !Ask a Mexican! naming debate

  March 22, 2007

• !Ask a Mexican!

  February 1, 2007

• The Memories Fade Away

  September 7, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  June 1, 2006

• So Hot Right Now

  May 4, 2006

• Just Another Roadside Distraction

  February 23, 2006

• Letters

  February 9, 2006

• !Ask a Mexican!

  December 29, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  November 24, 2005

• !Ask a Mexican!

  August 25, 2005

• A Few Words on Why Tom Umberg Doesnt Want Campaign-Finance Reform

  April 28, 2005

• In the Midnite Hour

  Thee Midniters never cared for ethnicityothers did

  December 9, 2004

• Mild In the Streets

  December 2, 2004

• Eight Days

  March 18, 2004

• Slowrider

  August 7, 2003

• Des-ma-dre!

  March 27, 2003

• The Myth of St. Curt

  Mayor Pringle wasnt a racist then, and he aint Cesar Chavez now

  November 21, 2002

• El Valiente Chicano

  February 1, 2001

• Cesar Salud

  February 17, 2000

• Lock Our Asses Up!

  May 27, 1999

• Mexicans Take Over Fashion Island

  Well, almost. Had the OC prima donnas at Fashion Island in Newport Beach known what was going on under the big tent across the street at the Island Hotel this past weekend, they would have run for cover under their Beemers and Benzes. Mexicans. Puerto Ricans. Colombians. Guatemalans. Dominicans, Argentinos, most American, some not, descended on the hotel by the hundreds. And they didn't come to make the beds. On Friday, Luis Valdez, the legendary filmmaker (Zoot Suit, La Bamba) and founder of th

  April 20, 2009

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Mexican Pirates Güey Anchor

  May 21, 2009

• Taco Bell Crime of the Week!

  I once flew to Fargo, which had the closest airport to the University of Minnesota-Morris, which is in the middle of nowhere but a very pleasant place (and how is it that THEY have a street named after Cesar Chavez but not SanTana?). On the drive away from the airport, I spotted a huge Mexican restaurant. Didn't have the time to stop and try it, but I'm sure I didn't miss much. And, with that, an update to the previous SAFII story about the Fargo Taco Bell employee who conspired to fake his own

  June 7, 2009

• Arellano Honored Nationally for ¡Ask a Mexican! Columns

  Gustavo Arellano and his ¡Ask a Mexican! column was honored in the large ciculation category at last week's 2009 AltWeekly Awards presentation during the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) convention in Tuscon, Arizona. Arellano received honorable mention in the "Column: circulation 50,000 and over" category for his ¡Ask a Mexican! columns "Why won't Mexicans vote for a black man?," "Is It Racist to Call a Mexican Working at a Coffee Shop a 'Beaner'?" and "Cherry-Picking César Chá

  July 6, 2009

• Letters From OC Weekly Readers

  August 20, 2009

• Google Dolls

  The other day, while getting the website that mirrors your favorite OC alt.-weekly pub ready for ya'all, Clockworken noticed something interesting upon opening Gustavo Arellano's popular column !Ask a Mexican! (Special Cesar Chavez Edition). Along the top of the virtual page was a Google advertisement inside a rectangular box, but upon opening El Mex the copy inside changed. Gone were the previous product-hawking sites, which we can't recall at this moment due to a weekend spent swimming with a

  January 23, 2006

• [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special El Edition

  September 10, 2009