Colorado Springs group honors Cesar Chavez with march
Dozens celebrated Latino American civil rights activist Cesar Chavez in Colorado Springs on Sunday,
The event, held at the Pioneer Museum, featured music, a Mexican folk dancing group, and Aztec dancers.
The group marched from the museum to Acacia Park, holding signs and chanting.
Organizer Donald Martinez says it’s important to keep Chavez’s name alive because he’s a hero fro the greater Latino community.
“With today’s climate… He represents the nonviolent approach. The peaceful protest and the power of it. And how someone can make a change through peaceful process. It doesn’t have to be riots and violence and pepper spray and things like that,” said Martinez.
The event was the third of its kind, but the group plans to have another next year.
