Post by Noemi Lujan Perez, MSL

Ramón Estévez (born August 3, 1940), known professionally as Martin Sheen, is an Hispano actor who first became known for his roles in the films The Subject Was Roses (1968) and Badlands (1973), and later achieved wide recognition for his leading role in Apocalypse Now (1979) and as President Josiah Bartlet in the television series The West Wing (1999–2006). He supported the 1965 farm worker movement with Cesar Chavez in Delano, California. Sheen endorsed marches and walkouts called by the activist group By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) to force the state of California to honor the Cesar Chavez holiday. On the day of the protests (March 30), thousands of students, primarily Chicanos from California and elsewhere, walked out of school in support of the demand. Estévez also stated that he participated in the large-scale immigration marches in Los Angeles in 2006 and 2007. Ramón Estévez is proud his name and never changed it. When people tried to convince his son Emilio Estévez to change his name. Ramon convinced his son to keep his name. Emilio Estévez kept his name and had a successful career.