City meetings
Following the publication of sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union, Long Beach will join the dozens of cities nationwide looking to strip his image and name from public view.
The Long Beach City Council on Tuesday is expected to begin a process of identifying all public assets named after him and consult community groups on how to replace him.
This comes days after a New York Times investigation revealed that Chavez, who died in 1993, groomed and sexually abused women and underage girls in the 1960s and 70s, including the union’s co-founder, Dolores Huerta…