The day started well with the early morning sun illuminating the glistening green fields around Planada after a night of rain. We gathered in the same park where Cesar Chavez had stopped on his historic march back in the sixties and were sent off with words of encouragement from one of Chavez’s fellow marchers who noted that our cause was also about the need for hope and dignity for working people. Then a brother from the UFW recited the farm worker’s prayer and we did the solidarity clap that originated with their cause decades earlier.
