Category Archives: Cesar Chavez Park

Transforming The Murals: Paul Botello

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As part of renaming Cesar Chavez Park in Pomona, renowned artist Paul Botello visited the park and shared with community people and activists how he has been transforming the murals there to preserve the history of the farmworkers’ movement, to continue to tell the broader story of farmworkers’ exploitation, the many victories won through union organizing, and the efforts that continue today for improved working conditions in the fields. Paul painted the five murals at the park in the early 2000s when the park was developed.

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Renaming Cesar Chavez Park

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Good turn-out for community meeting to rename Cesar Chavez Park in Pomona with numerous speakers (including renowned artist Paul Botello) who have helped in the development and preservation of the park and its murals. Nomination forms were sent out to the neighborhood and passed out at the meeting. Among the names proposed was “Si Se Puede Park” (based on a phrase that civil rights and farmworker leader Dolores Huerta came up with and used throughout her years of organizing farmworker and labor communities – reflecting the historical resilience, strength, and vision of our communities to overcome all obstacles in advancing a quality of life, intersectional unity, and equity). “Dolores Huerta Park “was also proposed

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nvitation to Family and Holiday Get-Together at Cesar Chavez Park on Sunday, Dec. 16 at 12 noon

You are invited to a family and holiday get-together pot-luck sponsored by the Latino and Latina Roundtable and Mt. SAC Mecha this Sunday, December 16 at 12 noon at Cesar Chavez Park (2720 Barjud Ave. in Pomona).  This get-together pot-luck is part of ongoing efforts by the two organizations in  “adopting” the maintenance of the park, preserving the murals there, and promoting activities bringing our communities together.  This is a pot-luck and we ask you to bring something (food or drink or both) to share.

Jose Zapata Calderon
President of the Latino and Latina Roundtable
Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chicano/a and Latino/a Studies
1050 North Mills Avenue
Claremont, CA 91711-6101
(909) 952-1640
 Jose_Calderon@pitzer.edu
Website:  www.josezcalderon.com