Subject:

Cesar Chavez

  • Blogs

    April 23, 2012

    OC Pioneers Who Were Klan Members: Elvin A. Ames and Osborne Garber, Fullerton and Santa Ana High School Teachers

    Oh, how we love to hate our public school teachers in Orange County, those indoctrinators of our young with radical ideas of feeling good about yourself, about learning about Cesar Chavez and Harvey Milk. Why can't it be like the good old days, goes conservative Orange County thought, those days whe ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 3, 2011

    Noche de Altares

    Fourth and Birch Streets

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2011

    [UPDATED: Local Event Canceled] Corridos for Cesar Chavez Day!

    ​ UPDATE, APR. 1, 3:32 P.M.: The local Cesar Chavez Day celebration has been canceled according to organizers. ORIGINAL ITEM, MAR. 31, 2:40 P.M.: Cesar Chavez, the late labor leader of the United Farm Workers, would have turned 84 years old today had he not passed away in 1993. To mark the occasio ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2011

    Loretta Sanchez Asked to Speak About DREAM Act at Pomona College, Talks About Herself Instead

    ​Here at your favorite infernal rag, we have long criticized Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez for not having the, um, ovaries to support the DREAM Act, waiting until the tragic death of a DREAMer to co-sponsor the bill in Congress. Of course, we always hear it from Loretta apologists aghast that we c ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 6, 2010

    Long Beach Hyatt Regency, Long Beach Hilton Losing a Convention Because of UNITE HERE Local 11 Boycott Call

    ​UNITE HERE Local 11 makes the most local news for its years-long dispute against the Disneyland hotels, but it represents other workers, too. And they just scored a symbolic victory for the workers they represent at the Long Beach versions of the Hyatt Regency and the Hilton.

  • Blogs

    August 12, 2010

    Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion Joins Dolores Huerta Benefit

    www.myspace.com/onedayasalion​Zack de la Rocha's One Day As A Lion  is joining the already-stellar line up of human rights activist Dolores Huerta's 80th birthday, at a benefit concert at the Greek Theatre tomorrow. One Day As A Lion, which takes all the energy of Rage Against ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 31, 2010

    Why isn't Orange Bishop Tod D. Brown Fighting Anti-Immigrant Loons?

    ​One of the few positive transformations in the Roman Catholic Church in the United States over the last half-century has been its increasingly Aztlanista tendencies. This trajectory was helped along in the late 1960s and 1970s by no less a priest than Roger Mahony, now cardinal of the Los Angeles ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 1, 2010

    Racist OC Register Fustercluck of the Day

    ​Headline: Yorba Linda to vote on Arizona immigration law thocpersonality wrote: Mexicans add nothing to this country other than prison cells.. Fine- You can crank out some tasty hot sauces, but the way you ransack [and extort] your own communities and neighborhoods should leave you all in s ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 14, 2010

    [Ask a Mexican!] The First South-of-the Border Amnesty

    ​Headline: Yorba Linda to vote on Arizona immigration law thocpersonality wrote: Mexicans add nothing to this country other than prison cells.. Fine- You can crank out some tasty hot sauces, but the way you ransack [and extort] your own communities and neighborhoods should leave you all in s ... More >>

  • Columns

    September 10, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Special El Edition

    ​Headline: Yorba Linda to vote on Arizona immigration law thocpersonality wrote: Mexicans add nothing to this country other than prison cells.. Fine- You can crank out some tasty hot sauces, but the way you ransack [and extort] your own communities and neighborhoods should leave you all in s ... More >>

  • Columns

    August 20, 2009

    Letters From OC Weekly Readers

    ​Headline: Yorba Linda to vote on Arizona immigration law thocpersonality wrote: Mexicans add nothing to this country other than prison cells.. Fine- You can crank out some tasty hot sauces, but the way you ransack [and extort] your own communities and neighborhoods should leave you all in s ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 6, 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 50,0 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 7, 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 resta ... More >>

  • Columns

    May 21, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Mexican Pirates Güey Anchor

    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 resta ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2009

    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, Arg ... More >>

  • Film

    April 2, 2009

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

    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, Arg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 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 ke ... More >>

  • Columns

    February 26, 2009

    [¡Ask a Mexican!] Ilegal, ¿Y Qué?

    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 ke ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 16, 2009

    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 lates ... More >>

  • Columns

    January 15, 2009

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

    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 lates ... More >>

  • Columns

    July 3, 2008

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

    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 lates ... More >>

  • Columns

    March 27, 2008

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

    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 lates ... More >>

  • News

    January 31, 2008

    Jerry, Be Wary

    AG Brown: Investigate Santa Ana Renaissance Plan's conflict-of-influenza, por favor

  • News

    December 20, 2007

    Sisterly Concern

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

  • Features

    November 29, 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?

  • Columns

    October 4, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!(r)

    "Does the bean dare call the beaner brown?"

  • News

    August 16, 2007

    A Union-Busting Habit

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

  • Columns

    March 22, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican! Web Especial

    The great !Ask a Mexican! naming debate

  • Columns

    February 1, 2007

    !Ask a Mexican!

    How do Mexicans get such ridiculous nicknames from seemingly normal names?

  • News

    September 7, 2006

    The Memories Fade Away

    What will destroy a historic Anaheim mural first: The sun, gentrification or immigration?

  • Columns

    June 1, 2006

    !Ask a Mexican!

    'The love that dare not speak its name except through the barrel of a gun'

  • News

    May 4, 2006

    So Hot Right Now

    Si, Se Pretty!

  • Blogs

    April 12, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 20, 2006

    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 t ... More >>

  • News

    February 23, 2006

    Just Another Roadside Distraction

    Anatomy of a murder on Beacon Avenue

  • Columns

    February 9, 2006

    Letters

    'Nice Job Crapping All Over the Drummer, Bung-hole'

  • Blogs

    February 6, 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 ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 23, 2006

    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 advertiseme ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 30, 2005

    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 Bar ... More >>

  • Columns

    December 29, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    The year in Mexican-bashing

  • Columns

    November 24, 2005

    Letters

    Your Story is probably BS

  • Columns

    November 24, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Your Story is probably BS

  • Columns

    August 25, 2005

    !Ask a Mexican!

    Your Story is probably BS

  • News

    April 28, 2005

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

    Your Story is probably BS

  • News

    December 2, 2004

    Mild In the Streets

    Buy Nothing Day Bombs at Fashion Island

  • Columns

    March 18, 2004

    Eight Days

    Buy Nothing Day Bombs at Fashion Island

  • News

    November 21, 2002

    The Myth of St. Curt

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

  • News

    January 31, 2002

    No, Gracias

    GOP bailing out of congressional race against Sanchez

  • News

    February 22, 2001

    Californias Misadventures

    Disney fetes Californias diversity as Anaheim trashes it

  • Columns

    February 17, 2000

    Cesar Salud

    Disney fetes Californias diversity as Anaheim trashes it

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