Arizona is steps away from erasing Cesar Chavez Day from state law

By: Gloria Rebecca Gomez

Outlets: Arizona Mirror

Published: March 25, 2026

Words: 1,129

Last Updated: 4 months, 1 week ago

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Arizona is steps away from eliminating Cesar Chavez Day, after a bipartisan group of lawmakers agreed the state shouldn’t celebrate the labor leader in the wake of revelations that the Arizona-born labor leader sexually abused women and young girls for years.

The move is one of several public repudiations of Chavez, a once revered Latino and labor rights icon who advocated for better treatment of farmworkers. That legacy has since been overshadowed by allegations …

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