AJR21,,112023 ASSEMBLY JOINT RESOLUTION 21 March 24, 2023 - Introduced by Representatives J. Anderson, Cabrera, Ortiz-Velez, Andraca, Baldeh, Bare, Clancy, Conley, Considine, Drake, Emerson, Haywood, Hong, Joers, Madison, Neubauer, Shelton, Sinicki, Moore Omokunde, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck and Vining, cosponsored by Senators Agard, Carpenter, Hesselbein, L. Johnson, Larson, Pfaff, Roys, Spreitzer and Taylor. Referred to Committee on Rules.
AJR21,,22Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2023, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state of Wisconsin. AJR21,,33Whereas, Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona; and AJR21,,44Whereas, Cesar Chavez is revered as a prominent Hispanic-American civil rights and labor rights activist for his work organizing migrant farm workers in California; and AJR21,,55Whereas, Chavez became a migrant farm worker in California while in middle school to support his family; and AJR21,,66Whereas, he joined the United States Navy in 1946 and served for two years; and AJR21,,77Whereas, Chavez became an organizer for and eventually the national director of the Community Service Organization, where he focused on voter registration for Mexican Americans; and AJR21,,88Whereas, Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which became the United Farm Workers; and AJR21,,99Whereas, the United Farm Workers organized thousands of migrant farm workers and came to represent more than 50,000 agricultural workers; and AJR21,,1010Whereas, Chavez, through nonviolent protests, boycotts, marches, and hunger strikes, successfully secured union contracts and improved working conditions and wages for thousands of migrant farm workers; and AJR21,,1111Whereas, Chavez’s United Farm Workers is famous for the slogan, “Si, se puede,” which is Spanish for “Yes, we can”; and AJR21,,1212Whereas, Cesar Chavez was honored following his death on April 23, 1993, by more than 50,000 mourners, including fellow labor rights activists; and AJR21,,1313Whereas, Cesar Chavez received a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1994; now, therefore, be it AJR21,,1414Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the members of the Wisconsin Legislature proclaim March 31, 2023, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state of Wisconsin.
