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Google Doodle Easter Dustup Portrays Faithful As Feckless

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By The Huffington Post News Editors

Owing to the fact that I use the Google Chrome extension to do all my Web searching, I rarely have occasion to visit Google’s main page, and consequently, I miss out on all of the fun and whimsical Google “doodles” the search company regularly places there. Unless, of course, those doodles “make news.” And over the Easter holiday, one of those doodles did, diddling the domes of conservative Twitter trawlers, outraged that the Easter Sunday doodle celebrated the birthday of labor leader Cesar Chavez, as opposed to, I guess, something Eastery.

And so now we have this whole “Google’s War on Christianity” thing, even though as far as I can tell, everyone who visited the Google home page was mere seconds from being able to visit, you know … the Bible.

The whole kerfuffle was like an early version of the annual “War On Christmas,” in which we are led to believe that adherents of centuries-old religion, privileged enough to live in a country that provides a month of celebration in which every piece of media — from television shows, to the music at the coffee shop, to the lights on the street — inevitably leads back to the gospels and their telling of the birth of Jesus Christ. This includes an enormously popular childrens’ cartoon called, “A Charlie Brown Christmas” in which the gospel of Luke is recited aloud on network television.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at Huffington Post

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Right Slaps Google Over Cesar Chavez Doodle on Easter

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By Matt Cantor Yesterday’s Google Doodle completely ignored Easter in favor of Cesar Chavez‘s birthday, and conservatives are livid, Politico reports. “While two billion Christians around the world celebrate Easter Sunday on this 31st day of March, Google is using its famous ‘Doodle’ search logo art to mark the birth of left-wing labor… …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Newser – Home

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Presidential Proclamation — Cesar Chavez Day

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By The White House

CESAR CHAVEZ DAY, 2013
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BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION
Every year, Americans all across our country pause on March 31 to remember a man who made justice his life's calling. Growing up the son of migrant farm workers who lost everything in the Great Depression, Cesar Chavez knew hard work and hardship from an early age. He labored long hours for little pay, taking odd jobs to help his family get by and forgoing a formal education to follow the crop cycles. But where others might have given up or given in, Cesar Chavez never lost hope in the power of opportunity. He lived each day by a belief as old as America itself — the idea that with courage and determination, any of us can reach beyond our circumstances and leave our children something better.
More than anything, we remember Cesar Chavez for lending voice to the voiceless. When no one seemed to care about the invisible farm workers who picked our Nation's food, beset by poverty and cheated by growers, a courageous man dedicated to dignity stood up and spoke out. Alongside Dolores Huerta and fellow organizers, he rallied a generation of workers around “La Causa,” marching and fasting and boycotting for fair pay and protections on the job. They fought through decades of setbacks and fierce resistance. But through every trial, Cesar Chavez refused to curb his ambitions or scale back his hope. Step by step, march by march, he helped lead a community of farm workers to make the change they sought.
Cesar Chavez's legacy lives on at Nuestra Señora Reina de la Paz, his home and workplace, which I was proud to designate a National Monument last October. It also lives on in those who remember his central teaching: that when workers are treated fairly and humanely, our country grows more just, opportunity becomes more equal, and all of us do better. Because even with the strides we have made, we know there is more left to do when working men and women toil in poverty without adequate protections or simple respect. We know there is more to do when our broken immigration system forces workers into a shadow economy where companies can ignore labor laws and undermine businesses following the rules. Fixing those problems means securing what Cesar Chavez fought for at La Paz. It means taking on injustice, making sure hard work is rewarded, and bringing more Americans into a rising middle class.
In 1966, when Cesar Chavez was struggling to bring attention to his cause, he received a telegram from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “As brothers in the fight for equality, I extend the hand of fellowship and goodwill,” he wrote. “We are with you in spirit and in determination that our dreams for a better tomorrow will be realized.” It is a story that reminds us how here in America, we are bound together …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at The White House Press Office