2 min read by Brian Flagg, Tonight the Tucson City Council will vote on whether to adopt Cesar Chavez’s birthday as the 11th official paid holiday for city employees. We at Casa Maria wrote a letter of support. Cesar Chavez is our hero. I even met him once. But how can City Council members vote to institute a holiday for Cesar Chavez, the beloved labor leader and founder of the United Farm Workers Union, and at the same time, in the same budget cycle, vote to balance their budget on the backs of poor bus riders? Voting to economically oppress poor people, while