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2023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTIO N 21
March 24, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives J. ANDERSON, CABRERA,
ORTIZ-VELEZ, ANDRACA, BALDEH, BARE, CLANCY, CONLEY, CONSIDINE, DRAKE,
EMERSON, HAYWOOD, HONG, JOERS, MADISON, NEUBAUER, SHELTON, SINICKI,
MOORE OMOKUNDE, SNODGRASS, STUBBS, SUBECK and VINING, cosponsored by
Senators AGARD, CARPENTER, HESSELBEIN, L. JOHNSON, LARSON, PFAFF, ROYS,
SPREITZER and TAYLOR. Referred to Committee on Rules.
***AUTHORS SUBJECT TO CHANGE***
Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2023, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state of
Wisconsin.
Whereas, Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona; and
Whereas, Cesar Chavez is revered as a prominent Hispanic-American civil
rights and labor rights activist for his work organizing migrant farm workers in
California; and
Whereas, Chavez became a migrant farm worker in California while in middle
school to support his family; and
Whereas, he joined the United States Navy in 1946 and served for two years;
and
Whereas, Chavez became an organizer for and eventually the national director
of the Community Service Organization, where he focused on voter registration for
Mexican Americans; and
Whereas, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in
1962, which became the United Farm Workers; and
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Whereas, the United Farm Workers organized thousands of migrant farm
workers and came to represent more than 50,000 agricultural workers; and
Whereas, Chavez, through nonviolent protests, boycotts, marches, and hunger
strikes, successfully secured union contracts and improved working conditions and
wages for thousands of migrant farm workers; and
Whereas, Chavez's United Farm Workers is famous for the slogan, “Si, se
puede,” which is Spanish for “Yes, we can”; and
Whereas, Cesar Chavez was honored following his death on April 23, 1993, by
more than 50,000 mourners, including fellow labor rights activists; and
Whereas, Cesar Chavez received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1994; now, therefore, be it
Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the members of the
Wisconsin Legislature proclaim March 31, 2023, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state
of Wisconsin.
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