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Proposed appointing of Navy warship because Cesar Chavez draws bombard, support

已有 974 次閱讀  2011-05-20 12:08   標籤Meizitang 
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Chavez was a Navy practiced, and distinctly had merged sensibilities about the experience.

"I applaud Secretary Mabus for chronic the Navy's wealthy tradition of naming these afford ships after forerunners, explorers and visionaries,Welding Hose," Boxer said in a statement, joining that Chavez "worked tirelessly to promote just working conditions and equal rights for entire Americans."

"Sixty percent of our work compel is Hispanic, a quite colossal digit of our work coerce of skilled women and men," Montgomery said in a telephone interview. The shipyard is in the Barrio Logan space of San Diego, understood for its Hispanic heritage. "We've had numerous assured comments from members of our work force for Cesar Chavez was such an momentous figure." Montgomery said.

Meanwhile, Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, commended Mabus on the yet-unannounced decision to name a ship for Chavez.

"Do you calculate he would absence a naval ship named after him?" Shaw queried. "It seems pretty unlikely."

Washington (CNN) -- Labor organizer Cesar Chavez was forever prepared as a confrontation. And now the author of the United Farm Workers, dead since 1993, namely in the navel of a ruckus over the U.S. Navy's plans to name a fashionable boat in his prestige.

Company spokeswoman Mary Montgomery said the Chavez name selection has been widely acclaimed by the General Dynamics Nassco workforce.

The terminal decision on a ship's name is up to the Navy secretary. He considers recommendations from the Naval History and Heritage command and proposals from service members, veterans and the public, according to the Navy.

Long before this latest anticipated honor from the Navy,Polarization maintaining, he was warmhearted acknowledged for his work. Dozens of parks, schools, and avenues are named for him, not fair in California merely across the nation. And then-President Bill Clinton posthumously presented Chavez the Medal of Freedom in 1994.

Navy Secretary Ray Mabus ambition be in San Diego on Wednesday at the General Dynamics Nassco shipyards and is expected, according to the shipbuilding enterprise, to formally declare that the latest Lewis and Clark-class Navy cargo ship will carry the Chavez name.

"This decision shows the way the Navy is heading," Hunter, a member of the House Armed Services Committee, said in his statement. "Naming a ship after Cesar Chavez works right onward with other recent decisions by the Navy that appears to be more about making a political statement than upholding the Navy's history and tradition."

"If this determination were about recognizing the Hispanic community's contribution to our nation, numerous additional names come to mind, including Marine Corps Sergeant Rafael Peralta, who was nominated for the Medal of Honor for action in Iraq," Hunter said in his statement. "Peralta is one of numerous Hispanic campaign heroes -- some of whom are worthy of the same admission," the statement said.

Cesar Chavez founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962 and that grew into the United Farm Workers. He has been widely honored for cornering the spotlight on the plight of plough workers and helping send them better pay and safer working conditions.

Hunter is not the merely one objecting the latent name. Even some proponents of Cesar Chavez are questioning the Navy's alternative of his name.

"We're talking almost a human who deemed in nonviolence -- the absolute gist belief was nonviolence," said Randy Shaw in San Francisco, where he is the executive mentor of the Tenderloin Housing Clinic. Shaw too is the writer of "Beyond the Fields: Cesar Chavez,Air Hose, the UFW and the Struggle for Justice in the 21st Century," promulgated in 2008.

Hunter said more worthy potential honorees were overlooked by the Navy.

"In 1944 he connected the Navy at the old of seventeen," his lawful memoir ashore the United Farm Workers website says. "He served two annuals and in appending apt bias,Fiber optic patch cord, he seasoned strict regimentation."

The company said before ships in that classification have been named for popular explorers and pioneers in their fields. The Chavez is the 14th ship of the Lewis and Clark class built in San Diego, with the cargo ships charted to bring supplies to other containers at sea. Cargo ships have been christened in honor of early-American explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, for well as aviator Amelia Earhart and civilian rights activist Medgar Evers.

Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-California, objects to naming a ship for Chavez. In a expression released by his bureau, he recommended the Navy is paying also many attention to politics and not enough to tradition.

A Navy speaker at the Pentagon, Lt. Justin Cole, would say only that the Navy had not made a prim announcement and that any comments would have to come later that.

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