Streets Of Dreams
Cesar Chavez Boulevard? How about a sop to some other interest groups in Portland?
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[September 12th, 2007] Last December, the City Council renamed Northeast Portland Boulevard as Rosa Parks Way, after the African-American civil rights icon.
And now the council is considering changing North Interstate Avenue to Cesar E. Chavez Boulevard to honor the Chicano labor leader.
The idea: to recognize Portland’s minorities. But what about the city’s many other still-unrecognized minorities who haven’t gotten the high honor of having a street renamed? Don’t they deserve rectangles of appreciation? Perhaps we can’t honor every community with a street of its own, but here’s a start. (Note that, for a change, these are streets on the west side.)
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RECENT COMMENTS ON “Streets Of Dreams”
Why don't we name a street after a Hmong leader? The Hmong people spilled more blood and sacrificed so much more for the United States and democracy in general than Ceasar Chavez ever did. Lets have...
Given that it is Portland I think it only fair that we also consider the following: replace the Baldock Freeway with the Mao Tse Dung expressway; Banfield with Pol Pot; 82nd Avenue with Lennin Way....
The Mayor has already made his mind up about changing the name. On his site he has a link to the petition in favor of the change. We wrote him asking if he would post our ipetition that opposes chan...
Ol' Tom "Pothole" Potter said he would be "proud" to have the street in front of his house named after Cesar Chavez. Well that settles it for me! There's your street! The Mayor him...
