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Richmond renames Cesar Chavez Day following sexual assault claims
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Richmond renames Cesar Chavez Day following sexual assault claims
Chavez, a notable figure during California's farmworkers rights movement during the 1960s and ’70s, has been accused of sexual assaulting multiple women during the 1970s, some as girls at the time.
·San Jose, United States
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This Tuesday the City Council of Richmond unanimously approved that the local holiday named César Chávez is now known as the Day of the Peasant Movement. Councillor César Zepeda pushed the change by venting several allegations of sexual abuse by Chávez, abuses that recognized union leader Dolores Huerta also said she suffered being pregnant twice, children she later gave up for adoption. “It was very important to move quickly and change the name…
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