Marta Guembes led the successful campaign to rename Portland’s 39th Avenue after labor leader Cesar Chavez in the late 2000s.
Last week, following revelations that Chavez had allegedly sexually abused women and girls, Guembes took a photograph of Chavez off her kitchen wall and carefully cut it into 39 pieces.
“I haven’t been able to throw it away,” Guembes said Friday, looking at the pile of the fragmented photo scattered on her coffee table. “I can’t rush it. It needs to be intentional. There needs to be a process.”…