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Cesar Chavez event planned

Posted: Mar 26, 2010 5:58 PM by Greg Boyce
Updated: Mar 26, 2010 5:58 PM

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Two organizations will host a Cesar Chavez Rally and March next week at the Pueblo County Courthouse.

Sponsored by the League of United Latin American Citizens and the American G.I. Forum, the rally will begin at noon on March 31. A proclamationi from the Pueblo City Council and the Pueblo County Commissioners will be read. Chavez was the founder of the United Farm Workers Union.

Juan Espinoza, recently retired as the journalist with the Pueblo Chieftain, will give the key address.

Immediately following the rally there will be a march to El Centro Del Quinto Sol, where further Cesar Chavez activities honoring him will take place.

Topics: chavez, cesar, farm, workers, pueblo, colorado, honor, rally

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