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# NameCityStateZip codeComments
301 Anne TrudeauPortlandOR97211I would love to drive down Chavez Blvd. in Portland, to tell my daughter all that Cesar did for farmworkers, to talk about marching with the farmworkers in 1975 and not eating grapes for years when I was a child. This would be a small honor for a great man.
302 Amanda PaulkPortlandOR97212
303 angelaportlandor97205Martin Luther King Jr can be honored but Chavez can not be?
304 Ian M. McDonaldPortlandOR97217Viva Chavez!
305 LuisRodolfoMartinezPORTLANDOR97266
306 AnonymousAnonymousOregon97230
307 Patricia ReynaPORTLANDOR97217HONOR ALL THE CONTRIBUTIONS FOR PEOPLE
308 Tana AtchleyLake OswegoOregon97035
309 Josie HernandezBeavertonOR97005
310 Eden LopezCorneliusOR97113
311 Trudy CooperPortlandOR97212I support the proposal, and I support Council's efforts to raise funds to mitigate the impacts on area businesses, that will have to spend new money to change advertising and other materials from "interstate" to Cesar E. Chavez. Proposals that have negative impacts on consitutuents often operate at cross purposes to the real goal--acknowledgement of the contributions of the diverse leaders and citizens in this country. I hope you will do all you can to address all interests fairly, as this change is implemented. I hope you will also do all you can to support people in looking at this issue in all its complexity, rather than resort to name calling. To some degree, the Council was inadvertantly responsible for the tense outcome of the first meeting on this subject.
312 Robert ParkerPortlandOR97232
313 Ra RavishankarBeavertonOR97008
314 Alexandra BradburyPortlandOR97206
315 SUGATA BHATTACHARYAPORTLANDOR97214
316 Susan BloomPortlandOR97211
317 Sarah RossCanbyOregon97013
318 Felicia WilliamsPortlandOregon97201I think it's a great idea to honor American leaders, be it by naming a bridge, a park, or a street. After you've finished with Chavez, maybe you can start on Abigail Scott Dunniway.
319 Sheree SolarioSalemOregon97305I believe that this should be only the beginning of honoring Cesar Chavez. It would be wonderful to build a community center and have it named after him to represent his vision of community.
320 Natasha BeckPortlandOR97214Si se puede!
321 Chris SolarioSalemOR97305
322 Michael S GoodmanMadisonWI53715-2169Si se puede!
323 Jodeanne ScheerPortlandOR97231
324 Ilze ChoiPortlandOregon97239Although our laws have excluded farm workers from citizenship, they have been a part of our country for generations, especially on the West Coast. It is only just and fair to honor Cesar Chavez who is significant in our country's history.
325 AnonymousAnonymousOregon97205
326 Jamie SmelandPortlandOR97211
327 Stephanie CalvertPortlandOregon97217I'm sympathetic to business owners who don't want the extra expense of having to print new business collateral. Also, I'm not sure why North Portland is the only area of Portland "honoring" civil-rights activists. Nonetheless, I am in support of changing an anonymous name like Interstate Blvd. to one celebrating Cesar Chavez.
328 AMJPortlandOR97217I live over in Piedmont neighborhood http://www.portlandneighborhood.com/piedmont.html and am directly in the line of fire re: the recent street change and the proposed Interstate renaming. My neighbors are up in arms and personally, I don’t really care all that much. I do wonder, however, about the impact to the business owners. Who covers their expenses?
329 John McKeePortlandOregon97219Naming a street in honor of Cesar Chavez has profound meaning for all Oregonians. He was a great American who should be remembered as an important leader and role model for future generations.
330 L TaylorPortlandOregon97212
331 Rose Cataniasan joseca95125
332 Kathie RamosPOrtlandOre97217Make are community strong and proud!
333 AnonymousAnonymousoregon97206
334 Courtney AcostagratesPortlandOregon97214Cesar Chavez was a great leader and a great man, and I would be delighted for my city to recognize him by naming a street in his honor.
335 Erik TuckerPortlandOregon97201
336 demondre jamisonfairvieworegon97024
337 Joe NarvaezPortlandOR97217
338 Kyle KelleyPortlandOR97214
339 Carlos ChavezPortlandOR97213I feel that renaming Interstate would be a great way to honor a great organizer such as Cesar Chavez and to bring awareness to the struggles and victories of Latinos in the United States of America.
340 Alicia RodriguezPortlandOR97204This name change would mean so much to so many.
341 AnonymousAnonymousOregon97217
342 Joel CamposPortlandOR97203I too am a North Portland resident and I too have a saying in the renaming of Interstate Blvd. Nothing would make me feel more proud of my hispanic heritage than to see In terstae Blvd dedicated to a man whose legacy in this country has long been over due. He is worthy of representing such a large contingency of hispanics living and working here in Portland and contributing in every sense to this great nation. A nation of immingrants from all over the world. If we are to embrace diversity in this country like we say we are here in Portland, then let us show it. The commisioners have the duty to put in practice what they preach about being diverse and honoring the great diversity that exists here in Portland and elsewhere. It's about time people accept the fact that we Hispanicsa and other races are an integral part of this society and deserve to be represented in every single way. Let's put an end to disparity and begin to practice equaliy and honor those who have sacrificed their lives to make this nation a better one with liberty and justice for all. This is all about making changes in closed minded attitudes and prejudices and facing the reality that changes are a way of moving forward and not remaining stagnated in the past. "SI SE PUEDE" Thank you very much. Joel Campos
343 Cecil Charles PrescodPortlandOR97212-2045This is an appropriate honor for a great American hero.
344 AnonymousAnonymousOregon97202This is of enormous significance and I support it. The struggle still continues.
345 Lillian GrablePortlandOR97220Cesar Chavez is not only a Latino leader, but an American leader of all working class people in this country. Portland is a city which claims to take pride in it's blue collar roots and it's diversity, Chavez is an excellent person to honor both those values. I will hang my head in shame if I am a citizen of a city in which someone whose moral character was a strong as Chavez's was is not able to be honored due to racial discrimination or the economic gripes of a few.
346 Molly MeisenheimerPortlandOR97213I am embarrassed and appalled that Portland is debating whether or not to honor this man and everything he stood for. Is Portland really that closed-minded? Is Portland willing to continue the de facto racism that exists here? This could be a step in the right direction, rather than a solidifying of the negative, racist image that Portland has in this country. A friend from out of state called me recently to ask about the Nazi Skinhead rally we had here, THAT is what she knows about Portland. How about giving the country a different reason to know our name?
347 Christine StuberPortlandOregon97214
348 andreaportlandoregon97217
349 Blanca CabreraSalemOR97301
350 Brenda SifuentezPortlandOregon97209

 

Signatures | Total: 510