National Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta
National Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta
Feminist Majority Foundation board member and lifelong feminist activist Dolores Huerta was honored by the National Portrait Gallery last night as the first Latina person to have a featured exhibition at the museum.
Huerta is an active defender of civil rights, farm workers’ rights, women’s rights, and immigrant rights, and has been for over five decades. She was awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Obama in 2011 for her tireless work. She also founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation for organizing and advancing human rights.
Huerta is often considered unparalleled in her skill in grassroots organizing, and has celebrated many successes. She co-founded with César Chavez the United Farm Workers Union (UFW). Huerta was also instrumental in the enactment of the Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, and was a principle UFW negotiator with major growers.
Huerta, a leading women’s rights advocate, joined the Feminist Majority Foundation board and the board of its sister organization the Feminist Majority, in 1988.She was a leader of the Feminist Majority’s Feminization of Power campaign to inspire women to run for public offices.
The National Portrait Gallery exhibition is titled “One Life: Dolores Huerta,” and “highlights the significant role of this Latina leader in the California farm workers movement of the 1960s and 70s.” It is the first national museum to feature Huerta’s many accomplishments.
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There are some people, like John Lewis and Dolores Huerta, who fill me with awe and respect. Some are with us.
Some have left us.
Dolores Huerta, Bobby Kennedy, Cesar Chavez
From Socialism.com: http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/articles/huerta-brutal-cops-and-ufw
Huerta, brutal cops, and the UFW
Moises Montoya
January 1989
On September 14, the Tactical Squad of the San Francisco Police Department attacked an anti-Bush demonstration. They beat several demonstrators severely, including United Farm Workers Union Vice President Dolores Huerta, who suffered broken ribs and a ruptured spleen.
Such brutality is an increasingly typical police response to peaceful protests nationwide. Why? The economy is floundering: times are bad and getting worse. The government has walked out on the people. Little by little, everyone feels their safety nets being yanked away: jobs, homes, health care, social security, education… People are angry and getting restless—and the police are there to keep “order.”
It’s not that people in power are blind to the growing misery. Rather, they understand that if people win demands for equality, a fair share, an end to the status quo, those now at the top are out of business. They pay the police, and buy politicians, to maintain things as they are.
