The assistant director under Cesar Chavez when the United Farm Workers (UFW) was created, Larry organized and led protests for equal pay and dignified living conditions for farm and cannery workers throughout the West Coast and Alaska from the 1930s to when the UFW was created in 1966.

This is the story we want and need to tell, in all its brilliant beauty, about Larry and the Filipinos who fought for dignity in the fields and united for the first time with the Mexican community in Delano, California.

This is historic and will take the artistry of the creative team but the collective power of stakeholders including the Filipino American and Mexican American communities at-large in San Francisco and beyond. To date, Filipino American artists from the Bay Area to Broadway have joined with us in telling this important story.

Iconic labor leader Dolores Huerta joins California’s Attorney General Rob Bonta and State Treasurer Fiona Ma in Poplar California to Celebrate Larry Itliong Day.

“The housing crisis is big, and it hasn’t been talked about,” said Mari Perez-Ruiz, chair of the California Democratic Renters Council. “We have found that Prop 21 offers solutions to address the housing crisis.”