{"id":58597,"date":"2025-07-17T08:30:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/san-jose-lawmaker-fights-to-keep-activists-name-on-navy-ship\/"},"modified":"2025-07-17T08:30:19","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T15:30:19","slug":"san-jose-lawmaker-fights-to-keep-activists-name-on-navy-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/san-jose-lawmaker-fights-to-keep-activists-name-on-navy-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose lawmaker fights to keep activist\u2019s name on Navy ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government might strip the name of one of San Jose\u2019s most beloved activists from a naval ship. The U.S. Navy, under the direction of Secretary of State Pete Hegseth, is considering renaming Navy cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez. Elected leaders, along with Cesar Chavez\u2019s family members, are fighting back to keep the ship\u2019s name and preserve Chavez\u2019s legacy as a veteran and historic civil rights and labor activist. Rep. Sam Liccardo, former San Jose mayor, issued a letter Tuesday alongside Rep. Gil Cisneros and 22 other members of Congress calling for Hegseth and the Navy to keep Chavez\u2019s&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/san-jose-lawmaker-congressman-sam-liccardo-fights-to-keep-activists-cesar-chavez-name-on-navy-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal government might strip the name of one of San Jose\u2019s most beloved activists from a naval ship. The U.S. Navy, under the direction of Secretary of State Pete Hegseth, is considering renaming Navy cargo ship USNS Cesar Chavez. Elected leaders, along with Cesar Chavez\u2019s family members, are fighting back to keep the ship\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}