Mexican Independence Day

You've got the Latino Mexican communities, all these kinds of things.

All of them also have, you know, the Mexican community celebrates Mexican Independence Day, even here in America.

You've got these shared identities, but there's also shared identities about where you live.

Las Vegas has Helderotter days.

Okay.

No, the joke was, it's the East LA Independence, Mexican Independence Day Parade.

It's usually like a week or four days before the grito.

My business attorney is right there in the barrio known as Maravilla.

And it worked well in 2026 because books, comic books are released Wednesday.

And this year it was Mexican Independence Day, September 16.

And so it was a good timing.

And I've always began with the end in mind too.

so that they were ready to go on strike and support the Filipino farm workers.

On September 16th, Mexican Independence Day, more than 1,200 people gathered at a church in Delano and voted to join the strike, chanting huelga.

The two unions merged into what became the United Farm Workers, It took five years of picket lines and an international grape boycott, but in 1970, growers signed union contracts that improved the lives of more than 10,000 workers.

Afterward, many Filipino members felt pushed to the margins of the union they had helped build, and Itlian left in 1971.

I thought about doing this last month.

During Mexican Independence Day, which is known as DACC, it's September 16th.

But unlike some members of the show, I don't have anniversary-itis where the show has to link with a corresponding holiday.

Even though I thought about doing it, but we just had something else on the books that day.

Start with the post that set the writer off.

September 16th, Mexican Independence Day, Ms. Valdez wrote, and again, I'm quoting her, "215 years ago," she said, "Mexicans fought an empire that demanded our land and our labor, and we won.

I'll carry that fight with me to Congress as New York's first Mexican American representative." And then she went on to add that last month she had met, in her words, "her comrades" in Morena.

Now, that's the left-wing party that runs Mexico, so Republicans lit her up, as they should have.

Ms. Valdez comes from a Mex- Mexican American family out of Lubbock, Texas.

She was proud of her heritage, heritage and, and, and the right lost its mind.

That's the argument she made herself, because the following Monday she posted again, "On Mexican Independence Day, I posted about my heritage with pride and the right," meaning those on the right, "lost their minds.

Republicans called me un-American," but she kept typing.