Navy names ship after labor activist Cesar Chavez

Source: CNN

Los Angeles (CNN) -- The U.S. Navy has named one of its newest ships after Mexican-American labor organizer Cesar Chavez, officials said Wednesday.

The decision was an ideal fit for the latest in the Lewis and Clark class of ships, which bear the names of legendary pioneers and explorers, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus said in a statement.

"Cesar Chavez inspired young Americans to do what is right and what is necessary to protect our freedoms and our country," he said. "The Cesar Chavez will sail hundreds of thousands of miles and will bring support and assistance to thousands upon thousands of people. His example will live on in this great ship."

In 1962, Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association, which grew into the United Farm Workers.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/05/18/ship.cesar.chavez/index.html

it gets from the hateful assholes on the right. It makes me smile to think of the veins throbbing in the forehead.

branch of the military.

I'd be damm proud that the Chavez had my back.

He takes down a pro-labor painting, what the hell would he do with the USS Cesar Chavez in one of his state's ports?

He paid a heavy price to stand by his beliefs against powerful forces.

http://www.jaunal.net.nyud.net:8090/CesarChavezNavy.jpg

Young César Chávez.

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I haven't done any research on his feelings about the military, he might have thought it a real honor.

just for the record (and realizing there is no chance of it anyway) i don't want any piece of military equipment named after me.

As for the really deadly weapons they have, they seem to have too much fun giving them "clever," wry names, like "Daisy Cutter" and whatever else they've got. Hideous.

IF they slowed down long enough to think it all over, they'd probably go insane. Who could REALLY want to kill so many people, anyway?

Keep your fingers crossed you never see one named "ret5hd sends greetings" to wipe out yet another million people.

Looks as if the wingers got their wishes from a few years back: they've turned Iraq into something much closer to a sheet of glass than it was.

On edit:
It occurred to me that people who have struggled so very hard in their own lives, have suffered, have been beaten and kicked, abused, mistreated, and despised probably are far less ready to harm other people than those who've been heavily insulated all their lives from real trouble. He probably would be far less sadistic than many squishy soft US Americans who've never been on the receiving end of unchecked hostility.

go navy.

It would be a greater honor...

The big picture, that's what Chavez was about.

many years ago. Always looked up to him and UFW.

He was an activist to be proud of.

Won't the Chamber of Commerce be "offended" like in Maine?:crazy:

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something wrong when I hit reply. The threading on here is so different from any other boards I've gone to.

clicked because it seems so surreal that the Navy would choose thusly.

:applause:

The Navy will have the destroyer Martin Luther King Jr. escort the battleship Mahatma Gandhi they are building for India on her maiden voyage. :banghead: