Jim Carlton

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61 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2025 last heard 20 Mar

Jim Carlton’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Cesar Chavez is just a lion in California history.

I've been in California for almost 40 years, and it's just everywhere you go, it's Cesar Chavez Park, Cesar Chavez Boulevard.

He was just such an advocate for immigrant workers and for farmworkers.

And he basically led kind of a revolt against really dangerous conditions for farmworkers.

And he did a lot of things.

There was worker strikes, which kind of shut down production.

In the 1980s, there was boycotting graves.

And so he ended up co-founding the United Farm Workers Union with Dolores Huerta, who was also very prominent in this struggle.

And together, they really changed things for the better for a lot of mostly immigrant workers.

So the Mission District is heavily Hispanic.

I went down there to Cesar Chavez Elementary School.

There's a giant mural of Cesar Chavez over the schoolyard.

And so I saw a guy out sweeping his sidewalk.

His name is Tony Rivera.

And I was asked, what do you think?

They want to rename the school and other places.

And he almost started crying.

He's 45 years old, grew up in the East Bay.

He participated in a No Grapes protest.

And he actually saw Cesar Chavez speaking in San Jose.

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