Seattle Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck and King County Councilmember Teresa Mosqueda are calling for a swift change. The park is county owned but city managed.
SEATTLE — A small park tucked along Highway 99 in Seattle’s South Park neighborhood could soon have a new name, part of a swift reckoning with sexual abuse allegations against civil rights icon Cesar Chavez that has shaken Latino communities across Washington state.
Seattle City Councilmember Alexis Mercedes Rinck said Thursday she is pushing for the renaming of Cesar Chavez Park after Dolores Huerta, the labor rights activist who this week revealed she was sexually abused by Chavez, the co-founder of
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