Co-chair Carlos Santana Helps Kick Off Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday Campaign

Co-chair Carlos Santana Helps Kick Off Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday Campaign

 LOS ANGELES, March 25 /PRNewswire/ --     WHO:    Carlos Santana, GRAMMY(R) Award winning musician and National            Co-Chair of the Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday effort            Hon. Richard Polanco, Former CA State Senate Majority Leader and            author of Cesar E. Chavez state holiday bill            Hon. Richard Alarcon, Los Angeles City Councilmember (District 7)            Hon. Jose Huizar, Los Angeles City Councilmember (District 14)*            Evelina Alarcon, Exec., Director, Cesar E. Chavez National            Holiday            Antonio Gonzalez, President of South West Voter Registration and            Education Project (SWVREP)            Christine Chavez, Grand-daughter of Cesar E. Chavez            Elected officials, Labor & supporters of a National Cesar Chavez            Holiday            * invited, to be confirmed    WHEN:    Wednesday, March 26 at 9:00 AM    WHERE:   Pico House            430 N. Main Street            Los Angeles, CA 90012            Exact Location: Inside the home    WHAT:    Press conference where leaders representing the Cesar Chavez            national holiday coalition will announce the nationwide events            calling for the national holiday in  over 60 cities in 30 states.    

BACKGROUND: On March 26th leaders will join together for a press conference to announce the launching of the first nationwide actions for a national holiday for the late Cesar E. Chavez, founder and former President of the United Farm Workers. Carlos Santana, Edward James Olmos, Martin Sheen and over two hundred and fifty organizations, sixty members of Congress, many elected officials and celebrities support a national holiday for Chavez. In 2002 Los Angeles passed a resolution supporting a national holiday.

"We aim to win a national holiday for Cesar Chavez on his birthday March 31 so that all Americans and the generations to come may be inspired by Cesar Chavez's extraordinary legacy," said Evelina Alarcon, Executive Director of Cesar E. Chavez National Holiday, the organization that is spearheading the holiday effort.

For more information on the organizing effort, go to: http://www.cesarchavezholiday.org/.

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Source: Carlos Santana

CONTACT: Michael Jensen, +1-626-585-9575, info@jensencom.com, for Carlos
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Web site: http://www.cesarchavezholiday.org/

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