Why a Memorial for Cesar Chavez?
Arguably there are no significant memorials to a Latino in the United States. It is our hope to create one for Cesar Estrada Chavez, at Cesar Chavez Park on the Berkeley waterfront. Cesar Chavez, labor leader, civil rights advocate and prophet of nonviolence, was able to bring moral authority and stature, energy and forward movement to the struggle of farmworkers in this country. He brought attention to a societal detachment from faceless farmworkers who labor in the fields to put food on our tables, and who suffer the vicissitudes of a yearly harvest. A Memorial Solar Calendar: The appropriateness of a Solar Calendar as a memorial to Csar Chavez stems from the fact that Solar Calendars were rooted in an agricultural way of life. Farmworkers have always lived by understanding the cycle of the seasons. It is a universal form that has a place in all of our ancestries, and reflects some our earliest architectural yearnings. For most of the history of humankind our ancestors experienced th
