AJR50: Joint Resolution Text

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2021 - 2022 LEGISLATURE

2021 Assembly JOINT RESOLUTION 50

May 7, 2021 - Introduced by Representatives Anderson, Cabrera, Ortiz-Velez, Brostoff, Hesselbein, S. Rodriguez, Emerson, Drake, Sinicki, Neubauer, Hintz, L. Myers, Goyke, Milroy, Hong, Hebl, Spreitzer, Shelton, Vining, Ohnstad, Bowen, Moore Omokunde, Stubbs and Subeck, cosponsored by Senators Carpenter, Wirch, Roys, Larson, Ringhand, Agard and Erpenbach. Referred to Committee on Rules.

AJR50,1,2 Relating to: proclaiming March 31, 2021, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state of Wisconsin.

AJR50,1,3 Whereas, Cesar Chavez was born March 31, 1927, near Yuma, Arizona; and

AJR50,1,6 Whereas, 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

AJR50,1,8 Whereas, Chavez became a migrant farm worker in California while in middle school to support his family; and

AJR50,1,10 Whereas, he joined the United States Navy in 1946 and served for two years; and

AJR50,1,13 Whereas, 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

AJR50,1,15 Whereas, Cesar Chavez founded and ran the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, which became the United Farm Workers; and

AJR50,2,2 Whereas, the United Farm Workers organized thousands of migrant farm workers and came to represent more than 50,000 agricultural workers; and

AJR50,2,5 Whereas, 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

AJR50,2,7 Whereas, Chavez is famous for his slogan, “Si, se puede,” which is Spanish for “Yes, we can”; and

AJR50,2,9 Whereas, Cesar Chavez was honored following his death on April 23, 1993, by more than 50,000 mourners, including fellow labor activists; and

AJR50,2,11 Whereas, Cesar Chavez received the Presidential Medal of Freedom posthumously in 1994; now, therefore, be it

AJR50,2,14 Resolved by the assembly, the senate concurring, That the members of the Wisconsin Legislature proclaim March 31, 2021, as Cesar Chavez Day in the state of Wisconsin.

AJR50,2,15 (End)