After sexual assault allegations, Sacramento leaders say Cesar Chavez Plaza should be renamed

Sacramento grapples with Cesar Chavez name after rape claims

Talamantes said the news was “devastating.”

“Cesar Chavez is someone that I, along with many people in the Latino community and the labor movement community, have idolized for my entire life,” Talamantes told Abridged.

She said that leaders in Sacramento’s Latino community are meeting on Wednesday evening to begin discussions on how to rename the downtown plaza that bears Chavez’s name. The group will begin weighing how to change the name of the park and the future of the bronze statue at its center, Talamantes said.

Talamantes urged that “we need to be more united than ever,” in light of current federal policies targeting Latinos and immigrants.

“This is one person today, but the farm movement is about more than one person,” she said.