Austin Council Weighs Renaming Cesar Chavez Street

0:00It's April 6th. I'm Cory with the story, and this is El Paso News today, local news powered by AI. Some Austin City Council members are pushing to rename Cesar Chavez Street after sexual abuse allegations surfaced against the late labor leader, this year, Jose Velazquez, Vanessa Fuentes, Jose Chitovela, and Zohive Zocadri sent a memo Friday to City Manager TC. Broadnax, asking for a full community outreach plan to a input, costs to the city, residents and businesses on both east and west Cesar Chavez. They want Broadnax to team up with the equity office, transportation, public works, and Latino leaders, unions, commissions, plus folks right on those. Streets The plan calls for hybrid listening sessions, at least two in-person and one virtual, non-mind public survey, and targeted ones for locals and, businesses to gauge real impacts. These moves come amid a bigger reckoning with Chavez's legacy.

1:00He co-founded the United Farm Workers with the Loris Werta, fighting for farm workers rights, but Huerta herself accused him of grooming and abusing. Young women and girls, leading to two pregnancies she placed with other families. Chavez passed away April 23rd, 1993, at age 66. As Texas, cities are pulling back, too. Fort Worth ditched its Chavez street signs. San Antonio shifted its Chavez holiday to Good Friday, and is polling on renaming Cesar E Chavez. Boulevard, while the Texas Education Agency, told schools to drop all Chavez lessons and events. Even the foundation behind San Antonio's big annual March plans to dissolve. Broadnax has until May 26 to deliver a report with the full plan, cost estimates, and the timeline, setting the stage for Austin to decide if history needs a rewrite on those streets.