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Incessant vandalism of the United Farm Workers' logo, a symbol subsequently appropriated by a gang, led muralist Carlos Gonzalez to eventually paint over the "Huelga Bird" with a portrait of Dolores ...
That’s when Gonzalez added on the likeness of Cesar Chavez. He also included the “Huelga Bird” symbol of the United Farm Workers Movement, which was defaced and restored multiple times, after the ...
[CHANTING] BIANCA: CARRYING THE ICONIC HUELGA BIRD FLAGS, THEY TOOK TO THE STREETS IN THE NAME OF FARMWORKER ACTIVIST CESAR CHAVEZ. MANY HAVE FARMWORKERS IN THEIR FAMILIES OR ARE DESCENDENTS OF ...
Cesar Chavez." “If they weren’t treated fairly ... they also carried a wooden sign with the word “huelga” (“strike”) engraved on it. The New York Times said in a 1993 obituary ...
(Phil Oakley, Special Contributor) Fifty years ago on Labor Day in Austin, a 21-year-old radio reporter walked alongside Cesar Chavez as the ... was the Spanish word Huelga, English for strike.
Cesar Chavez ... reported that Chavez had stopped in town to pledge his support to the upholsterers’ strike against Economy Furniture, known in local memory as the Chicano Huelga.