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Valenzuela said the group has emailed the Yuma City Council asking for a main street to be named after Chávez, for the Pacific Avenue Athletic Complex to be named after him and for the city to establish a holiday in Chávez’s name. No one has responded to their request, he said. The Yuma mayor and council members did no...
“There are some powerful business owners, land owners, farmers in the community that have opposed any honoring or any promotion of the legacy of Cesar Chávez, and it’s because they lived through the era when the United Farmworkers were trying to come to Yuma and they resisted that,” he said.
One proposal would change 16th Street to Cesar Chávez Street. The group has talked with leaders who are considering a proposal to change Highway 95, which stretches across Arizona, cuts through Yuma along 16th Street and extends south to the border in San Luis where Chávez died.
They like to imagine that by this time next year, people in Yuma will be gathering to honor Chávez with renaming ceremonies and a day of service on an official holiday in his name.
Really, any main street would do, Valenzuela said. They’re fine with sharing. Marking a street sign with its original name and Chávez's would do. They’ll take an unpaid holiday, as long as it's dedicated to Chávez.
In this region along the border, where cultures, traditions and languages mix, sometimes things take time.
But it’s past time, Valenzuela said. In San Luis, 22 miles south of Yuma, they have the Cesar Chávez Cultural Center, where families learn art, music and dance. There's a statue of Chávez in the town square. They have Cesar Chávez Street that runs parallel to Main Street and stops just short of the U.S.-Mexico border. ...
“Cesar Chavez is a hero to many and an inspiration to all, who made history by speaking up for the voiceless and advocating for the rights and dignity of farmworkers,” Mayor Gerardo Sanchez said in a statement on the recognition.
Valenzuela believes any recognition of Chávez is “not just for fieldworkers, but for the dignity of work and of labor for all jobs."
But there's another reason to remember. One Valenzuela keeps coming back to, maybe, because he’s a police officer in a border state in a divided country. Chávez faced inhumanity and injustice with nonviolent marches, hunger strikes and boycotts.
“What we need in our country right now — if you think about the last several years, the violent protests that have happened throughout our country — we need to give an example to people who want change, that change can happen and violence is not necessary,” he said.
For now, when people ask Valenzuela if there's anything official for Chávez in Yuma, he points them to a mural.
The one near a high school that bears the Latino icon's face. But not his name.
Alejandro Chávez isn’t surprised Yuma doesn’t recognize his grandfather.
“If you think about it, we were among the last states to get Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a holiday,” he said.
President Ronald Reagan approved the first national King holiday, celebrated in 1986. The late Sen. John McCain famously voted against establishing the federal holiday in King’s honor. Decades later, McCain said he was wrong to oppose the recognition. Arizonans voted down establishing a state holiday for the civil-righ...
Upon McCain’s death, Arizonans and people across the U.S. have sought recognition for the late senator who was born in the Panama Canal Zone. Chávez likes to think that the sentiment for McCain will ease the way for similar recognition for his grandfather, an Arizona native.
But like his grandfather, he knows justice moves slowly.
Chávez served in the U.S. Navy for two years, from 1944-46. At the time Mexican-Americans were only allowed to serve as deckhands and painters. Chávez's family has said he entered the Navy for opportunity and left it because of discrimination.
In 2015, 22 years after his death, a sailor named Marco Valdovinos organized a ceremony to render final military honors to Chávez. Something he didn't receive upon his death, according to Navy Times.
Maybe, one day, Arizona will recognize Cesar Chávez Day as an official state holiday, like California does, Chávez said. For now, he celebrates his grandfather’s legacy at Arizona schools, churches and community celebrations in cities that choose to recognize Chávez with a local holiday.
On Thursday, Chávez read the Prayer of the Farm Workers’ Struggle/Oración del Campesino en la Lucha at his child’s Phoenix school.
So I will know my people’s plight.
Chávez likes knowing his own son was born in the same state as his grandfather. Lately, he's been thinking about his grandfather's past and what opportunities his son's generation will have in a country with growing economic disparity.
“It’s a prime time to recognize my grandfather’s work not just for farmworkers, but in bridging the gap between the most powerful industry in California and the workers,” he said. "With everything happening now, what better way to honor the dignity of work and the value of bridging the gaps we have now?"
One thing many people don’t know about his grandfather, is that he kept working with his hands, long after he stopped working in the fields, he said.
“He had his own little garden,” he said. “He took great pride in that you worked and you took care of your family, whether you were a CEO or a farmworker, you both put the food on the table."
Nancy Godoy worries about people forgetting, or worse, never learning.
She spends most days making sure that doesn’t happen. Godoy is the archivist of the Chicano/a Research Collection at Arizona State University. She sifts through papers and photos and hunts for memories, ones people keep in their mind and ones they store in a drawer or box, to record.
She's not surprised Valenzuela, the officer working to honor Chávez in Yuma, didn't know the civil and labor rights icon was born and died in Yuma County. She sees too many students who don't know their own stories, their own past.
"In Arizona, we don’t know that history (of Latino communities) existed, I would say because of racism and lack of resources in archiving, so figures like Cesar Chávez haven’t been documented in our history,” she said.
Not knowing paves the way for inequality, she said.
Godoy is managing a Mellon Foundation grant awarded to ASU that helps historically marginalized communities preserve their past.
Stories are her work. She will tell you about Arizona’s Mexican mining families and about Gustavo Gutierrez, the labor organizer from Chandler who helped found Chicanos Por La Causa and who like Chávez was born to a family of farmworkers. And in the next breath, she's reminding you that it's been nearly 27 years since ...
Arizonans who marched with Chávez and stood by his side during hunger strikes and boycotts keep their stories close.
They remember when Chávez came to Arizona in 1972. He took shelter at Santa Rita Center, an old building in Phoenix on loan from the Catholic Church. The labor organizer and civil-rights leader, surrounded by supporters, many of them children of Mexican farmworkers, kept his 24-day "fast for love."
Many consider Santa Rita the place where Arizona’s Chicano movement started. Chávez launched his hunger strike to bring attention to the plight of Arizona farm workers after then-Gov. Jack Williams signed a bill outlawing boycotts and strikes during harvest time, making it virtually impossible for workers to organize a...
Families, migrants and activists went to Santa Rita to be by Chavez’s side, as did national leaders, including Coretta Scott King, widow of Martin Luther King Jr.
The famous phrase is synonymous with Chávez and the farmworkers movement. It became a political cry for millions who cast their vote for the nation’s first black president. Today, it is a mantra for migrant-rights groups and others fighting what seems impossible.
But it started in Arizona, with Huerta, Chávez and the farmworkers movement.
Huerta was meeting with the state’s Latino leaders. They told her Chavez picked the wrong state for a fight. Arizona’s growers’ lobby was too strong.
Later that night, during her organizing report, Huerta said the words again.
"All the people started shouting, 'Sí, se puede! Sí, se puede!' " she said. "It became the heart of our campaign."
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Chelyabinsk region Governor Mikhail Yurevich presenting an award to one of the young students who performed a heroic deed during the meteor strike.
"This extraordinary event has shown that even during peacetime one can show valor. Many of you defended our children, took them to safe places and quickly helped the injured," the governor said in a speech before doctors, teachers, carpenters, coaches, and entrepreneurs who jumped in and helped others in the wake of th...
Each of them was presented with a framed certificate and flowers. The two youngest rescuers — two young schoolboys Kirill Daineko and Sergei Skripnik — were given honorable mention with special gifts.
Rather than rushing to evacuate their school during the meteor strike, the boys broke a window to help their gym teacher get out of the room she was blocked in. They also rescued the school's cook and a younger student.
The boys said they "were not afraid and do not consider themselves heroes. Anybody would do the same, we were just a little faster."
The Black List announced the six finalists for its 2017 Feature Writers Lab, chosen from 900 entrants who have not yet made $100,000 as writers.
The six — an equal mix of three men and three women — will participate in a week-long, residential workshop this month in Los Angeles.
Each writer will workshop one screenplay through a peer workshop and one-on-one sessions with working professional screenwriting mentors who this year include Scott Myers, Phil Hay (“Ride Along”), Jamie Linden (“Money Monster”), Phyllis Nagy (“Carol”), Allison Schroeder (“Hidden Figures”) and Kiwi Smith (“Legally Blond...
The Brookings Doha Center (BDC) hosted a panel discussion on October 21, 2018 to discuss the significance of the latest domestic and external developments for Turkey’s political and economic future. The panel addressed the following questions: What is the political and economic outlook for Turkey? What will be the natu...
The panel included a group of distinguished experts including Ibrahim Turhan, former chairman and CEO of Istanbul Stock Exchange and deputy governor of Turkey’s Central Bank; Galip Dalay, nonresident fellow at the BDC and research director at Al Sharq Forum; and Taha Ozhan, former chairman of the Foreign Affairs Commit...
Tarik Yousef started the discussion by emphasizing the many political, geopolitical, economic, and social challenges that Turkey has faced. Turkey has suffered economic shocks affecting the lira. This has consequences for the health of the banking system, inflation, real estate development, and the overall economic out...
Ibrahim Turhan provided an economic overview of the situation in Turkey. He began by highlighting that Turkey has always been an integrated part of the global economic system and that placing Turkey within this global context is crucial. The Turkish economy is greatly impacted by what is going on in the world. He argue...
Turhan explained that since the end of September, there has been a significant change in the depreciation rate due to decreasing tensions in Turkish foreign relations. This change signaled that Turkey has begun to diverge from the rest of the emerging markets for the better. The Turkish lira recovered, and the Turkish ...
Taha Ozhan underlined the importance of understanding Turkey’s domestic politics in order to better grasp the economic challenges. He gave a brief history of the country’s past achievements and failures. He argued that, before 2002, Turkey had both a western and eastern side, meaning that one part was living in globali...
Although Ozhan agreed with these labels, he remarked that he himself would try to put a different label on Turkey. He went on to explain the domestic, social, and economic circumstances that helped the rise of the Justice and Development Party, the ruling party in Turkey. He described the era from 2002 to 2007 as one o...
Galip Dalay approached the topic by dividing his remarks into several distinct categories of Turkish foreign relations, focusing specifically on the context and challenges of each. He expanded on Turkey’s relations with the United States, Russia, and the Middle East. Regarding Turkish-U.S relations, Dalay stated that a...
As for Russian-Turkish relations, it is all about pragmatism. Both countries are known to have directly opposing interests. This clash existed between the USSR and Turkey in the twentieth century and has persisted until today. Dalay stated that the future of Russian-Turkish relations is a very personal matter to both p...
The subsequent question and answer session focused on the implications of these various political, geopolitical, and economic issues. For countries with sensitive geopolitical positions like Turkey, politics and economics go hand in hand. Therefore, it will be difficult to address economic challenges without understand...
Seven members of Tenterfield’s Walker family put up their hand to serve in WWI. Of those, four brothers saw active service and their sister Alice (wife of Banjo Paterson) served with the Red Cross in France. One of the boys, however, was never to return. Several descendents of the Walker family – the name so synonymous...
Family members gather at the grave of WH Walker to unviel a plaque commeorating the loss of his son Douglas in WWI.
Richard and Elizabeth Dowe and Mary Johnston.
Wal Walker, Victoria Walker, Scott 'Scotchie' Walker and Fergus Walker.
Vicki Mundell (nee Walker), Victoria Walker, Wal Walker, Judy Walker and Gavin Walker.
Seven members of Tenterfield’s Walker family put up their hand to serve in WWI. Of those, four brothers saw active service and their sister Alice (wife of Banjo Paterson) served with the Red Cross in France. One of the boys, however, was never to return.
Several descendents of the Walker family – the name so synonymous with Tenterfield – gathered at Tenterfield Cemetery on Sunday, September 9 to mark the centenary of the fall of Douglas Walker on the fields of France.
A special plaque in Douglas’s honour was unveiled on the grave of his father, William Henry Walker of Tenterfield Station fame. His mother Georgina had received a special award for her sacrifice in having so many sons enlist, but that number may have included a son-in-law, none other than Banjo Patterson.
The influence of William and his brother James went far beyond the boundaries of Tenterfield Station, and their push to make Tenterfield the capital of the soon-to-be-federated country held some sway and merit.
Coming from Scotland they found the mild climate somewhat familiar, and the town was well-placed midway between the family’s huge banking interests and pastoral holdings from Townsville to Melbourne.
WH’s great-grandson Scott Walker said William and his brother James had plenty of connections in politics and government. James was a president of the Bank of NSW, a senator in the Legislative Assembly and was responsible for drafting the Australian Constitution.
Their older cousin Thomas Walker, who started the Bank of NSW and financed Tenterfield Station, also provided the money to construct the former Maternity Wing at Tenterfield Hospital. In 1845 as the member for Port Melbourne, he petitioned his friend Queen Victoria for the separation of the district of Port Phillip fro...
The Walker family of Tenterfield Station in around 1895, with Douglas standing on the far right.
The Walkers were cousins of the Bowes Lyon family back in Britain. When two of Douglas’s brothers were wounded in WWI they were repatriated to Glamis Castle, the home of their great-grandmother, which had been turned into a convalescent hospital. It was here that they received a visit from their cousin, Elizabeth Bowes...
Sadly Douglas was killed in action. He was born in Tenterfield, going on to work as a telegraphist for the Eastern Extension Telegraph Company and joined the Singapore Volunteers during an overseas posting in 2014.
He arrived in Darwin in 1915 to take up a supervisory position with the company, but later resigned that position in order to enlist (to the dismay of the authorities who preferred telegraphists to remain at their posts). He was assigned to 14 Machine Gun Regiment, 6 Reinforcements, later transferring to 23rd Machine G...
In early September the company was going up the Inferno trench, to the left of Mont St. Quentin, to rescue a British contingent in trouble.
“Three weakened and tired Australian divisions took on five fresh German divisions over the three days, seven Victoria Crosses handed out,” it was reported in the Cable and Wireless monthly journal The Zodiac.
Douglas was killed just three hours before his unit was relieved, never to go into action again.
He died at Bouchavasnes on September 3, 1918 when the Germans dropped a shell into the trench, killing him and four others. The Red Cross reports one of his brothers was not far away but didn’t arrive in time to say his goodbyes.
“Blessed with the sweetest of dispositions and the capacity for making friends and keeping them, Mr Walker will be missed by a wide circle of friends,” the Northern Territory Times and Gazette reported later that month. He was 34.
He lies in Peronne Road Cemetery in Mericourt, France and his name appears on the Darwin Cenotaph memorial. A hundred years later, family members gathered to also commemorate him in his hometown, placing a plaque on his father’s grave.
Douglas Walker, October 7, 1883 - September 3, 1918.
It came as a severe blow to his old pals of the Extension, when the melancholy news was passed round that, on 3rd September 1918, Douglas Walker – known to all in the service as “Old Don” – had been killed in action.
It was the present writer’s good fortune to have been with him at several Extension Stations, and he was undoubtedly one of the finest characters that ever came out of La Perouse or graced a Cable Station.
Handsome, brown as a berry, hard as nails, with an air of elasticity about him that fascinated, he was splendid. Excelling at rugger, tennis, cricket, he was perhaps at his best on horseback, and he rode as he lived, straight as a die, scoffing at danger.
He came from good Scottish stock which, when planted in the generous clime of our Southern Queensland border, could not but produce the best.
The ideal Australian, setting a standard, which his pale would fain have reached. A spice of mischief, always near the surface, of his quiet nature, made us love him.
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International Cat Day is here - here's how some brands and organisations have used the occasion for some feline-based brandjacking.
F1 is among a number of sporting bodies to remind the public about the disruptive contribution cats have made to big events.
Bap and Bagel (and @TheVampsJames!) want you to #AdoptDontShop.
According to data from Brandwatch, #InternationalCatDay has had 45,000 mentions on Twitter today as the working day ended in the UK, with a peak at 3pm UK time. Nearly two thirds (62 per cent) came from female Twitter users.
The 1st Alloway Company, the Boys’ Brigade, are winners of the Ayr Battalion Efficiency Trophy for 2012-13.
Trophies won include swimming, football, drama, cross country and team relay.

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