Cesar E. Chavez Foundation support letter
Following is the text of the support letter received by the widow of Cesar
Chavez on the occasion of the Global Peace Walk's initiating route in 1995
from New York to San Francisco having the honor of the hospitality of the
UFW and Cesar E. Chavez Foundation community called La Paz, in Keene,
California in the southern Sierra Nevada foothills between Tehachapi and
Bakersfield, California, the final resting place of this widely beloved
California champion of nonviolence and social justice, La Paz, The
Peace.
The below letter was among those hand delivered to the President of the
United Nations General Assembly at an NGO conference at the UN on October
26, 1995.
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CESAR E. CHAVEZ FOUNDATION
PO Box 62, Keene, CA 93531, Phone 805-822-5571, Fax 805-822-7329
7 June 1995
Dear Rev. Yusen Yamato,
I want to thank you and all of the supporters and participants in the Global
Peace March for honoring us and for honoring Cesar's legacy by visiting and
praying at his grave site here at La Paz.
We all must make a commitment to work for peace and for justice in our
world. Your efforts demonstrate to the word, and remind us all here at La
Paz, that there is much work to be done. You will never know the true
magnitude of the positive effects your march is havign on the many
communities you have visited and will visit while on your journey.
You and the participants of the Global Peace Now march are leading us all by
standing up and taking the right steps -- the steps towards peace and
justice for everyone. As you leave La Paz to continue on this march down
the road to justice and to sanity, I want you to know that you carry with
you my blessings and prayers, in the spirit of my husband, Cesar E.
Chavez.
Si Se Puede!
[signed]
Helen F. Chavez
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A printable copy of the signed original letter is linked to attachment bar
at bottom of this email posted at
http://www.egroups.com/group/global-peace-walk/204.html