Our last big MEChA/ALAS event before heading into Semana de la raza was the Cesar Chavez walk. He attended this as a joint event with PUSO, although Ariane was their only member who ended showed up. Still, the MEChA/ALAS leaders and part of our membership showed up and had a really fun time. Cesar Serrano, our fearless leader, was able to acquire a school bus for the event. This ended up being very unnecessary since not as many people showed up as Cesar had hoped, but at least it was comfortable.
The bus took us to Olvera street, where the event was beginning. We got some time to search around Olvera street for a while and ate some Mexican food before the actual walk began. There were also Aztec dancers street performing at Olvera.
The walk itself was actually pretty fun. Cesar and Leo held our banner out as we walked along. I took a lot of pictures and we periodically heard the loud cheers:
“Si se puede!”
“Latinos, unidos, jamaz seran vencidos!”
“Latinos, united, shall never be divided!”
That same night we reunited in Pauley for a mixed Latino-Filipino dinner with some of the PUSO leaders and membership, who showed up this time. We talked about the similarities in foods between the two groups as well as Cesar Chavez and the Filipino farm workers who began the labor movements.
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