‘Yes, we can’ — César E. Chávez March for Justice returns to streets of San Antonio after two-year COVID hiatus
Xóchitl Guerra, 6, and Moisés Guerra, 9, chant “Si se puede” at San Antonio’s 26th annual César E. Chávez March for Justice with their parents, Marjorie Moh-Guerra and Jose Guerra Jr.Petra Mata, 75, and Juanita Reyna, 66, arrived early for the start of the 26th annual César E. Chávez March for Justice.
“He was a hero,” Mata said of Chávez, who died in 1993 at age 66. “He struggled to fight for people working in the fields. We continue, no matter what.” Martinez also acknowledged musicians of the San Antonio Symphony, who have been on strike for nearly six months in a contract dispute with the symphony board. The musicians held signs that said “Fighting for a living wage!” and “We demand good faith bargaining.”
“The change that begins on the streets is change that emanates through this city,” the mayor said. “And the change that begins in San Antonio emanates throughout the United States.”Grand marshals of the parade were Nirenberg’s wife, Erika Prosper Nirenberg, and Paul Chávez, son of the civil rights leader.
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