0001|                       HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 39
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0002|     43rd legislature - STATE OF NEW MEXICO - first session, 1997
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0003|                            INTRODUCED BY
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0004|                              RICK MIERA
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0010|                           A JOINT MEMORIAL
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0011|     REQUESTING THE GOVERNOR TO PROCLAIM MARCH 31 AS CESAR CHAVEZ
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0012|     DAY.
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0013|          
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0014|          WHEREAS, Cesar E. Chavez was born on March 31, 1927 to
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0015|     Juana and Librado Chavez, a merchant, farmer and postmaster for
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0016|     a community near Yuma, Arizona; and
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0017|          WHEREAS, Cesar grew up during the depression and, like so
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0018|     many others in that period, experienced the hardships and
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0019|     heartaches of his family's loss of their farm and business; and
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0020|          WHEREAS, the Chavez family, as so many others, went to
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0021|     California as migrant farm workers; and
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0022|          WHEREAS, as a migrant farm worker, Cesar grew up under
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0023|     circumstances that made it hard to get an education, have a
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0024|     permanent home or achieve many of the components of the
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0025|     American dream; and
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0001|          WHEREAS, he decided to dedicate himself to helping his
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0002|     fellow farmworkers and became a spokesman for better working
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0003|     conditions, better pay and equal justice in the farm fields of
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0004|     America; and
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0005|          WHEREAS, he was instrumental in getting the united farm
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0006|     workers of America founded in 1962; and
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0007|          WHEREAS, he persevered through bitter confrontations,
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0008|     jailings and physical threats to his life and won many of the
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0009|     goals he had pursued for his fellow workers;
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0010|          NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE
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0011|     STATE OF NEW MEXICO that the governor be requested to proclaim
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0012|     an annual day of commemoration, March 31, as Cesar Chavez day;
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0013|     and 
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0014|          BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that copies of this memorial be
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0015|     transmitted to the governor and to Helen Fabela Chavez.
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0016|                                                         State of New Mexico
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0017|                      House of Representatives
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0018|   
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0019|                      FORTY-THIRD LEGISLATURE
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0020|                        FIRST SESSION, 1997
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0023|                                               February 20, 1997
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0001|   Mr. Speaker:
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0002|   
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0003|        Your VOTERS AND ELECTIONS COMMITTEE, to whom has
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0004|   been referred
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0005|   
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0006|                   HOUSE JOINT MEMORIAL 39
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0008|   has had it under consideration and reports same with
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0009|   recommendation that it DO PASS.
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0011|                                 Respectfully submitted,
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<u></u>0017| <u>                                </u>                             Edward C. Sandoval, Chairman
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0022|             (Chief Clerk)                       (Chief Clerk)
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0001|   The roll call vote was<u> 11 </u> For<u> 0 </u> Against
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0002|   Yes:      11
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0003|             Excused:  Nicely
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0004|             Absent:   None
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