>> Cathy: LAST WEEK THE NEW YORK TIMES PUBLISHED AN INVESTIGATION ALLEGING LONGTIME LABOR LEADER CESAR CHAVEZ SEXUALLY ABUSED OUNG GIRLS AND WOMEN FOR YEARS.

THIS WEEK THE MINNESOTA HOUSE AND SENATE QUICKLY PASSED BILLS TO REPEAL THE STATE HOLIDAY THAT HONORS CHAVEZ, THE PROMINENT MEXICAN-AMERICAN WHO COFOUNDED THE UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA.

GOVERNOR WALZ SIGNED THAT TODAY.

D.F.L.

REPRESENTATIVE MARÍA ISA PÉREZ-VEGA WAS THE AUTHOR OF THE BILL THATS PAD THE HOUSE UNANIMOUSLY ON MONDAY.

IT'S GOOD TO SEE YOU AGAIN.

>> THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME.

THIS, THIS BILL LITERALLY WAS PASSED BY THE SPEED OF LIGHT PRACTICALLY.

I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT REALLY HAPPEN MANY OTHER TIMES, TO BE HONEST WITH YOU.

WHAT'S THE URGENCY?

THE URGENCY IS WE LISTENED AND RESPECTED OUR WOMEN AND CHILDREN AND IN PARTICULARLY OUR LATINA COMMUNITY HAS GONE THROUGH A LOT.

NOT JUST WITHIN THE MONTHS OF THIS OPERATION METRO SURGE, BUT IN PARTICULAR FOR DECADES WHEN IT COMES TO RESPECTING OUR MOVEMENTS.

AND WHEN OUR WOMEN AND OUR CHILDREN SPEAK.

TO ME AS A LEGISLATOR AND AS AS A MOTHER AND YOUTH WORKER, I- LIMOTHER AND YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTTHER AND YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTENER AND YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTEN A AND YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTEN ANDND YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTEN AND I YOUTH WORKER, I- LISTEN AND I TOUTH WORKER, I- LISTEN AND I TAKTH WORKER, I- LISTEN AND I TAKE WORKER, I- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACORKER, I- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACTIKER, I- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACTIONR, I- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACTION A I- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACTION AND- LISTEN AND I TAKE ACTION AND- THAT DOESN'T LEAVE WHEN YOU GO INSIDE THOSE CHAMBERS.

AND I WAS SURE TO SPEAK WITH BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE AND PARTICULARLY MY LEADER -- TO YOU PERSONALLY?

I'M A SURVIVOR.

AND IT'S TAKING, YOU DON'T LET THAT GO.

YOU WORK ON EMPOWERING YOURSELF TO BRING HEALING AND ALSO TO HAVE CAUSE AND EFFECT OF YOUR PROCESS OF NOT JUST HEALING YOURSELF BUT THINKING ABOUT THE COMMUNITY OF THOSE WHO MAY NOT HAVE THE ENCOURAGEMENT OR VILLAGE THAT IT TAKES TO GO THROUGH PROCESSING AND SPEAKING UP ON IT.

AND SO PERSONALLY IT WAS WHAT ARE WE DOING TO BRING HEALING IF WE'RE NOT IN A PROACTIVE, REACTIVE WAY?

>> Cathy: HOW DO YOU WEIGH THE -- HIS LEGACY AND THE GOOD WORK HE DID WITH THESE REVELATIONS?

IS IT DIFFICULT, OR?

HOW DO YOU PARSE IT?

>> IT'S VERY CHALLENGING, YOU KNOW, I WANT TO HIGHLIGHT HE WORK OF THE WOMEN, BECAUSE IT WAS NOT, FOR ME GROWING UP IN A LATINA COMMUNITY IN PARTICULARLY THE COMMUNITY THAT I REPRESENT, WHICH IS THE ONLY LATINO DISTRICT COMMEMORATED BY A CULTURAL DISTRICT IN MINNESOTA, AND COMING FORTH FROM A MOVEMENT OF MEXICAN MIGRANT FARM WORKERS WHO OPENED UP OPPORTUNITIES OF ORGANIZING WITH PUERTO RICANS, WHO ARE THE COMMUNITY THAT I REPRESENT HERE IN MINNESOTA, AND IT WAS REALLY IMPACTFUL TO SAY, YOU KNOW, OUR MOVEMENTS HAVE ALWAYS HAD THE WOMEN AT THE FRONTLINE.

DOLORES, THE COCHAIR OF THIS MOVEMENT SPOKE UP AND WHEN SHE SAID WHAT SHE REVEALED, IT WAS REALLY CONNECTED IN INTO WHAT HAVE OUR GRANDMOTHERS GONE THROUGH, WHAT HAVE WE GONE THROUGH AND WHAT DO WE WANT TO BRING TO ADDRESS TO OUR DAUGHTERS, TO OUR CHILDREN, TO THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERSHIP IN OUR COMMUNITIES.

YES, WE DON'T WANT TO DISCREDIT THE WORK OF THE MOVEMENT, BUT IT'S NOT ONE MAN.

IT'S A CAUSE OF ALSO NOT JUST ONE COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK ABOUT THE FARMWORKERS IN THE LABOR MOVEMENT, I DON'T JUST THINK ABOUT MEXICAN IMMIGRANTS, I THINK ABOUT THE PUERTO RICAN COMMUNITY, THE OVERALL LATINA GENERATION OF MOVEMENT AND MIGRATION, BUT ALSO OUR FILIPINO COMMUNITY AND HOW THERE'S BEEN A BLEND OF WHAT THE COLONIALISM OF THE STRUCTURE OF WHAT MIGRATION AND AGRICULTURE HAS BROUGHT, WEATHER IT'S IN DELANO, IN FRESNO, THESE COMMUNITIES WHERE IT STARTED WHERE I VISITED OR RIGHT HERE IN OUR AGRICULTURAL STATE OF MINNESOTA.

>> Eric: GOING FORWARD NOW, DO YOU SEE -- THERE'S A STREET I THINK NAMED FOR CHAVEZ AND A SCHOOL.

>> YES, YES.

>> Eric: WOULD YOU WANT THOSE FOR DOLORES HUERTA?

OR RENAMED?

ARE WE -- NOT FAR ENOUGH ALONG TO KNOW?

>> I WOULD SAY AND WE ADDRESSED THIS IN THE PRESS CONFERENCE RIGHT BEFORE WE HIT THE FLOOR, RIGHT, THE LEADERSHIP OF RAMONA ROSALES WHO WAS TRAINED, HER AND HER HUSBAND WERE TRAINED BY CESAR CHAVEZ AND MARCHED ALONGSIDE AND STARTED THE CHICANO LATINO STUDIES PROGRAM AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA.

THIS LEGISLATION AND REPEAL OPENED UP THE OPPORTUNITY WITH HEALING AND WITH ALL HEALING IT TAKES TIME.

I AM NOT THE PERSON TO SAY WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THIS TO THIS NAME.

THIS IS GOING TO BE A COLLECTIVE WORK, AND WE'RE IN A TIGHT HOUSE RIGHT NOW, THIS IS A COLLECTIVE WORK TO PASS THE REPEAL, RIGHT?

IT'S GOING TO TAKE A COLLECTIVE WORK OF LATINA COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT THE STATE OF MINNESOTA AND LET'S START IN THE DISTRICT THAT HAS HAD THE IMPACT TO CHANGE THESE NAMES, RIGHT.

IN THE FIRST PLACE TO NOW RECLAIM WHAT THESE STREETS SHOULD BE CALLED AND NOT DIRECTED AND IN PARTICULARLY APPOINTED OF ONE PERSON.

WE NEED TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S NOT JUST ALSO REPEALING FOR CESAR CHAVEZ, THIS SHOULD OPEN UP THE DOOR TO REPEAL AND ALSO ACKNOWLEDGE THAT THERE'S EEN FOLKS THAT HAVE STATUES AND INSTITUTIONS AND SCHOLARSHIPS NOT ONLY IN THE LATINO COMMUNITY BUT IN FILES HAT ARE BEING HIDDEN ACROSS THE COUNTRY RIGHT NOW.

>> Eric: