Lalo on CALÓ: A new day
After the horrible revelations about farm labor leader Cesar Chavez, many felt that we should not put anybody on a pedestal. I slightly disagree. In the spirit of the renaming of the March 31 holiday in California, I believe that immigrant farmworkers are worthy of our praise. Under the hardest working conditions, and pay that is not close to what they deserve, they show up to work day after day to feed this country.
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