Talk:Cesar Chavez Day

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the article itself mentions that Cesar Chavez day is celebrated in eight states, but the article is categorized as a "California project" article, and all its content except the last sentence focus exclusively on California. It may be that California commemorates the holiday differently (more significantly?) than the other states, but if so, the differences should be explicitly enumerated. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.45.42.94 (talk) 14:28, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Correct. Also, the article specifies that many schools in "the state" are closed, but does not specify what state "the state" is! My bet is it's California, but I wouldn't know. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.173.9.27 (talk) 16:42, 2 April 2013 (UTC)

What a mess this article is! It's like every sentence was added by someone who had not read or understood the preceding sentences. I will clean it up unless someone with more knowledge of the actual topic does so. Tina Kimmel (talk) 18:41, 31 March 2014 (UTC)

No National Holidays in USA

For everybody's information, the United States has no authority under the U.S. Constitution to create national holidays. The Congress can only create holidays for the US Government (i.e. federal employees), the District of Columbia, four of the five territories (it cannot create holidays for the Northern Mariana Islands), certain private business entities that the U.S. Government has constitutional authority to directly regulate (such as federally-chartered banks), military bases, the Postal Service, and such like.

Everything else in the way of creating holidays is *state* jurisdiction. DC and the Territories can also create their own holidays, but except for the Northern Mariana Islands the federal government can negate the holidays they create; whereas the federal government has no jurisdiction to tell any of the states (or the NMI) that they cannot or that they must create a particular holiday).

Recall that Martin Luther King, Jr.'s Birthday was a federal holiday for two decades before Arizona condescended to finally make it a holiday in that state. So, the federal banks, federal courts, US Postal Service, were all closed that day in Arizona - but *state* banks were open, as were state government offices, local government offices, etc.

So, while we often refer to federal holidays as "national holidays" there actually is no such thing as a national holiday in the United States - in the *legal* sense. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 73.162.218.153 (talk) 03:54, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

However there are certainly Federal "Commemorative" holidays (or Observance Days) by proclamation, and Cesar Chavez Day is one of them. Others would be holidays like "Loyalty Day", "Armed Forces Day", "Patriot Day", etc... Fyunck(click) (talk) 05:43, 31 March 2016 (UTC)

Dual Citizenship

" Chavez was born on the Mexico Texas border and therefore has dual citizenship." - Surely his dual citizenship came through his parents, as he was not Mexican born. I can't imagine living on either side of the border entitles you to dual citizenship by itself.

Not in New Mexico

I took out the listing for New Mexico. There's no state holiday here in honor of Chávez . I've been teaching at state community colleges here since 1994-5, and we've never had a day off for that purpose, and I've never heard of one at the public schools. I also checked some current school calendars. The source was simply wrong. There was a bill in the legislature in 2019 for a holiday honoring Chávez and Senator Dennis Chávez, which passed the state House but wasn't voted on in the Senate . There have been community observances, such as and an annual celebration at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque , if anyone thinks those are worth mentioning. —JerryFriedman (Talk) 16:34, 19 February 2021 (UTC)

Move page to - “Farmworkers Day.”

As California has already voted to change the day's name, with other states will follow, the page's name and lead should be renamed to fit the new law. BumbleBeeBelle (talk) 10:03, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

This would need an RM (WP:REQUESTEDMOVE), maybe best to proceed with one before editors comment only in this section and not the RM. A mistake in the lead indicates Obama made this a yearly national holiday when he proclaimed it for only one year (the best U.S. presidents can do for this type of holiday), so it is not a federal holiday. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 10:21, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Thank you, i put in a request, hoping i got it right. BumbleBeeBelle (talk) 11:35, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Requested move 31 March 2026

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: not moved. Opposing arguments are more policy-based and stronger than the supporters. (closed by non-admin page mover) 1isall (talk | contribs) 14:36, 7 April 2026 (UTC)

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Cesar Chavez Day → Farmworkers DayFarmworkers Day – As California voted by law for changing the day's name, and it no longer called - Cesar Chavez Day, with other states soon to follow. I think that page name should be changed, later editing the lead to be more accurate. BumbleBeeBelle (talk) 12:38, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

Support – Per above, Wikipedia's "On This Page" has also changed it to Farmworkers Day. ~~~~ Live Launcher (talk) 14:45, 31 March 2026 (UTC)

• Support alternate move to Farm Workers Day Per WP:NAMECHANGES, I think there is a low likelihood that its common name will remain Cesar Chavez Day going forward. The official name is "Farm Workers" and there seems to be 50/50 usage of the one word and two word versions. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 17:31, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose it's not even remotely the same thing. Cesar Chavez Day is a Federal Commemorative holiday for the birthday of Cesar Chavez, and states have celebrated it for years. Farmworkers Day is what some states will create to "REPLACE" Cesar Chavez birthday celebration. Some states will do other things. I'm not sure what the status is on the federal level. But this day exists, and perhaps in the future we will say "existed." But the two holidays do not have the same meaning at all. It requires a separate article. Goodness there are multiple commemorations on the same day and we don't merge them all together just because they are on the same day. Fyunck(click) (talk) 19:19, 31 March 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose WP:CRYSTAL. This is a fairly well known holiday and I think it would be jumping the gun to change the title now, based on the actions of a handful of organizations and jurisdictions. Let's wait for things to settle down before we take stock of how enduring this name change is in the long run. Discourses on Livvy (talk · contribs) 01:29, 1 April 2026 (UTC)
• Oppose per WP:NAMECHANGES, WP:CRYSTAL, and WP:RECENTISM. Additionally, this article covers the US federal holiday. A very recent change in California and other states is insufficient to rename the article. We currently have a patchwork of local and state responses and a federal administration that generally declines to commemorate similar holidays. Predictably, we have a flurry of coverage about the name changes (and other responses) with no way of knowing how things will shake out. There is a long history using the old/current name ("Cesar Chavez Day") and present day coverage universally uses this to describe the response to the new allegations against Chávez. —Myceteae‍🍄‍🟫 (talk) 16:01, 4 April 2026 (UTC)

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