even in reality, we can support each other and joint to reveal the truth and share the legacy teacher eileen pacto con reading poems written by her middle school students after day celebrating filipino american trailblazer, very it, leon. this is a big special day for us because we get a chance to teach our students about where their namesake comes from 10 years ago, the school formally alvarado middle school in union city, renamed it leon vera cruz middle school. after larry it, leong and another filipino labor leader, philip vera cruz, who were instrumental in organizing the delano grape strike in 1965 that led to a nationwide boycott. the owners figured out very quickly to pit the mexican workers against the filipino workers and that the filipino workers would ask for more benefits and more and better working conditions. and instead of giving it to them, they would say nope. and they would just go and hire mexican workers instead working side by side with scissor chavez and dolores huerta all pictured here on this mural at the school, they stood up for farm workers rights and fair wages.