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    Honoring the Legacy of Cesar Chavez

    March 28, 2025

    Dear Campus Community,
    This Monday, Chaffey College will celebrate the birth and legacy of civil rights leader Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez Day is a day of service, as well as a time to remember the importance of uniting to make our country stronger and more prosperous.
    As co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, Chavez sought to increase wages, and provide unemployment insurance and collective bargaining rights for farm workers, among other improvements.
    Much like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Chavez had dreams of a better world and shared them in his speeches. In his “Address to the Commonwealth Club of California” in 1984, he spoke of savage conditions facing farm workers, who had an average life expectancy of 49 years. Chavez’ motivation to make a difference came from watching what his parents experienced as migrant farmworkers in California.
    “That dream, that vision, grew from my own experience with racism, with hope, with the desire to be treated fairly and to see my people treated as human beings and not as chattel,” he said.
    Through non-violent tactics such as boycotts, pickets and strikes, he fulfilled his dreams and his mission.
    In observance of the holiday, all Chaffey campuses will be closed. Normal schedules will resume Tuesday April 1.
    I wish you all a restful long weekend.
     
    Sincerely,
    Henry D. Shannon, Ph.D.
    Superintendent/President

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