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    RFK Jr.'s campaign is celebrating Cesar Chavez Day. The labor icon's family is not having it

    by Benjamin Oreskes, Los Angeles Times Mar 29, 2024 4 minutes
    Independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has drawn criticism from the family of Cesar Chavez. The late labor leader was close to the candidate’ s father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, in the 1960 s.

    LOS ANGELES — During the 1980 presidential primaries, Fernando Chavez traveled for months with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as they worked on the presidential campaign of his uncle Sen. Ted Kennedy.

    In living room after living room, Chavez said, he saw some combination of three framed pictures on the wall: portraits of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.; of Kennedy's father, the late Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (D-N.Y.); and of his own father, Cesar Chavez, who had co-founded the United Farm Workers. The elder Kennedy had grown close to the labor icon in the years before the senator's assassination in 1968.

    "Those three represented hope and aspirations for people, especially marginalized people" — Black, Latino and

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