Si, Se Puede (Eventually) - César Chávez Rename Effort Re-emerges - Portland

Posted on: June 26th, 2008
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“TWO WEEKS AGO, Mayor Tom Potter and Commissioner Sam Adams quietly convened a meeting with top-level city staff.

On the agenda: Reviving the effort to name a street for civil rights and labor leader César E. Chávez—a project that took several contentious turns last year, after members of Portland’s Latino community initiated the project.”*

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