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<h1><font size="5">Chavez remembered at Peace Garden rally</font></h1>
<p class="subhead">Students, faculty and supporters gather to pay tribute
to farm labor activist</p>
<p class="byline">By Elizabeth Lefall</p>
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<p align="justify">Professor of social work Sudarshan Kapoor places
a garland of carnations around the statue of Cesar Chávez
in the Peace Garden, Wednesday. The tribute also included a speech
by Chávez’s grandaughter. </p>
<p class="byline">-Photo by Wendy Alexander</p>
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</table> <p>Among red ribbon clad
workers and red, white and green decorations, students and supporters
gathered in Fresno State’s Peace Garden and Free Speech Area to
remember the passion, fight and work accomplished by the late Cesar Chávez,
Wednesday.</p>
<p> “
My grandfather was a common man with an uncommon vision,” Natalie
R. Hernandez said.</p>
<p> “
One thing he felt very strongly about was that by giving of our own life
we could bind other lives.” she said. “Those words are to
be remembered.”</p>
<p> Hernandez, 21, a student at California State University Bakersfield,
said it’s important to carry on the message of her grandfather. </p>
<p> “
My focus is on education. My grandfather couldn’t go farther than
his 8th grade education but he made a difference. I’m encouraging
young people today to continue their education so they can use their
knowledge in the struggle for equality. My grandfather always said, ‘Si
se puede,’ it can be done.”</p>
<p> Sudarshan Kapoor, a professor of social work at Fresno State, said
Chávez’s
contributions mirrored many of yet another well-known symbol of peace,
Mahatmas Gandhi. </p>
<p> “
Chávez’s life depicts the words of Gandhi, ‘you must
be the change you want to see in the world,’” Kapoor said. </p>
<p> Festivities included Fresno State dancers of the Ballet Folklorico
Danzantes de Aztlán, a mariachi band and a presentation of garlands and
red carnations placed at the Chávez statue in the Peace Garden. </p>
<p> Students lined up to honor the late farm leader by placing flowers
at the base of the stone statue. </p>
<p> “
Chávez represents my family. I myself was a farm worker for three
years, helping my parents economically. There are those that are still
being mistreated because Chávez’s struggle is not over,” said
Maribel Moreno, a senior majoring in Spanish.</p>
<p> Freddy Gonzalez, a freshman majoring in Business Administration, said
the event was a “good way to express our love and recognition of
Chávez.”</p>
<p> Hernandez closed by saying, “Though he walked among presidents
and popes, he [Chávez] thought of himself always as a simple farm
worker.”</p>
<p> The Fresno State campus was closed in observance of Cesar E. Chávez
day, now a state holiday. On March 31, Chávez would have turned
77 years old.</p></td>
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