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There he designated the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument, the country's first monument honoring a modern-day Latino. They were promptly evicted from their bunkhouses. It’s been said that Cesar Chavez inspired the world but that Larry Itliong inspired Cesar Chavez. He is best known for leading the Delano Grape Strike, which started on September 8, 1965 and lasted for more than half a decade. Last week, in what was widely seen as a nod to Latino voters, President Obama traveled to Nuestra Señora de La Paz in Keene, the United Farmworkers headquarters and redoubt established by Chavez in 1971. Larry Itliong was a Fil-Am labor organizer. They voted to go on strike against the Delano table-grape growers - a bold, risky move that had been preceded by a successful summertime walkout of hundreds of Filipino and Mexican grape pickers in the Coachella Valley to the south. Anti-miscegenation laws in California and some other states prohibited Filipinos and whites from marrying, and most spent decades deprived of a normal social and family life. Mr. Itliong, known as "Seven Fingers" - the tales vary about how he lost the missing three - came to the United States in 1929 when he was 15, having never slept in a bed or lived in a home with electricity. By Jedric Martin, guest contributor . Mr. Itliong, 47, looks much like his father did, though taller and ponytailed. When Johnny Itliong thinks about his father, his favorite phrase, "By golly!" He approached Mr. Chavez, then busy organizing the National Farm Workers Association. )Larry Itliong’s name and deeds should be just as celebrated and held in reverence — though the rough-around-the-edges Itliong would the first to blanch at that — as we hold Chavez’ name in esteem.In California, legislation in 2015 by Assemblymember Rob Bonta, the only Filipino American in the state’s legislature, made Itliong’s birthday, Oct. 25,  a day to recognize the historic figure and his role in shaping California and the Filipino American community of today.Larry Itliong Day is taking a while to get recognized. Yet Mr. Itliong's workers could not go it alone.

The United Farm Workers movement is one of the most important demonstrations of worker power in American history. Their modern equivalent are the red shirts, derived from the Star Trek television series. Hong, a Korean American Democrat, won her... NOW Photo A White board member for the National Organization for Women is allegedly attempting to gain an... AsAmNews has chosen to obscure the photo of some of the children because of their age By Louis... A man riding a crowded subway began screaming obscenities and racially tinged insults at other passengers including an Asian American woman. Itliong first joined striking lettuce workers in Washington State. West Coast farmers started turning to Filipinos - mostly single men - for cheap labor after the Immigration Act of 1924 excluded Asians from entering the United States. Filipino Community Hall looms large, too: one of his earliest memories is of Joan Baez singing at a farm workers rally at the hall.

Itliong, also known as “Seven Fingers,” was a Filipino American labor organizer whose story is not as well known as others but is just as important to our history. In Delano, there is no Larry Itliong School, no Itliong Park or Drive. Another farmworker landmark is the 40 Acres, the original U.F.W. Larry Itliong married six times in all; his son was 2 years old when his parents divorced. An excellent card player and avid cigar smoker, he spoke numerous Filipino dialects as well as Spanish, Cantonese and Japanese, according to his son, and taught himself about law by attending trials. Itliong spent his life standing up for his belief that “everyone has equal rights and justice, but you have to make that come about.” He died on Feb. 8, 1977, leaving a legacy of activism for later generations of Filipino students, housing advocates, doctors, CPAs, nurses, tech workers, home care and domestic workers.Larry Itliong Day Festival 2019: Oct. 26, 1 – 5 p.m.Unidad Park & Community Garden, 1644 Beverly BlvdAsAmNews is a community of users interested in reading, learning and commenting on news, events, people & issues in the Asian Americans and Pacific Islander communities. "It's a monument within their hearts. He was a natural activist and worked as a laborer and a farmhand in several states.
Read on to see Jedric's thoughts on labor leader, Larry Itliong. NOW Photo A White board member for the National Organization for Women is allegedly attempting to gain an... AsAmNews has chosen to obscure the photo of some of the children because of their age By Louis... A man riding a crowded subway began screaming obscenities and racially tinged insults at other passengers including an Asian American woman.

by Alexandra Catsoulis October 15, 2019 December 31, 2019. The only official recognition is Larry Itliong Day in Los Angeles County - Oct. 25 - a small victory on a son's lonely quest to have his father's contributions recognized.

"We became an entire generation that was forced by society to find love and companionship in dance halls," wrote Philip Vera Cruz, a Filipino labor leader. He is trying to raise money to place a simple bench beside his father's grave. Celebrations (see below) throughout the state have been few. https://asamnews.com/.../why-all-americans-should-know-about-larry-itliong Tidbits - June 4, 2020 - Reader Comments: George Floyd's final words; Protests for George; against police brutality, against massive militarized police, against systemic racism and white supremacy; against Trump; nature of police unions; more...At 90, Dolores Huerta Is Not Done Inspiring Labor ActivistsAt 90, Dolores Huerta Is Not Done Inspiring Labor ActivistsOrganize and Fight for the Freedom of All Refugees and Migrants!Why Did Labor Leaders Vote Against Medicare for All in the Middle of a Pandemic?America’s ‘Untouchables’: the Silent Power of the Caste SystemCharlotta Bass's Acceptance Speech for Vice Presidential Candidate of the Progressive Party (1952)How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air”