We are excited to announce the launch of our capital campaign to build the Dolores Huerta Peace & Justice Cultural Center, a multicultural community center complex in downtown Bakersfield, California. DHF will construct a state-of-the-art campus and headquarters that will include a comprehensive child development facility, art gallery, outdoor amphitheater and a community organizing training academy.The campus will provide a permanent location in Kern County to honor the historic civil rights legacy of local leaders, the contributions of the many immigrants who worked the land and enriched the culture and built California’s agricultural economy.
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Dolores Huerta spoke to the Los Angeles Times about farm workers as essential workers and the importance of protecting their health and safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch the interview below:
“Dolores” is a 2017 American documentary directed by Peter Bratt, on the life of Chicana activist Dolores Huerta. It was produced by Brian Benson for PBS, with Benjamin Bratt and Alpita Patel serving as Consulting Producers and Carlos Santana as Executive Producer.[1]
We are excited to announce the launch of our capital campaign to build the Dolores Huerta Peace & Justice Cultural Center, a multicultural community center complex in downtown Bakersfield, California. DHF will construct a state-of-the-art campus and headquarters...
Dolores Huerta spoke to the Los Angeles Times about farm workers as essential workers and the importance of protecting their health and safety during the Covid-19 pandemic. Watch the interview below: https://youtu.be/x7TCsaRWwTM Image and Video Courtesy of the Los...
Good Morning America honored Dolores' legacy as a lifelong activist during Women's Herstory Month. Watch the animated video now! https://youtu.be/I3ZyUDAh4B0 Video courtesy of ABC and Good Morning America
https://youtu.be/Unzr9kiFScQ "Dolores" Official Trailer - PBS from Wikipedia: "Dolores" is a 2017 American documentary directed by Peter Bratt, on the life of Chicana activist Dolores Huerta. It was produced by Brian Benson for PBS, with Benjamin Bratt and Alpita...
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by co-founding the country’s first farmworkers’ union. Wrestling with raising 11 children, gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores emerges with a vision that...
Durante la entrevista, Dolores Huerta dijo que la fundacion esta recolectando fondos y buscando organizadores, y les enseña como organizarse para realizar acciones colectivas grandes que se requieran en su comunidad.
Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by co-founding the country’s first farmworkers’ union. Wrestling with raising 11 children, gender bias, union defeat and victory, and nearly dying after a San Francisco Police beating, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her newfound feminism with racial and class justice. World Premiere
Durante la entrevista, Dolores Huerta dijo que la fundacion esta recolectando fondos y buscando organizadores, y les enseña como organizarse para realizar acciones colectivas grandes que se requieran en su comunidad.
Ella también habló sobre los sindicatos de los trabajadores como su única forma de organización y las organizaciones en contra de ellos, mencionando que todos los trabajadores tienen sus derechos sin importar su situación migratoria.
También menciona la falta de apoyo por parte de Kevin McCarthy con las reformas de inmigración y por lo tanto de la necesidad de apoyo de la gente y las corporaciones.
Video: Dolores Huerta Interview with Washington Correspondent Ione Molinares, 6/13/14
During the Interview, Dolores Huerta said the fundation is collecting funds and looking for organizers, and teaches them how to organize for large collective actions required in their community.
She also talked about the workers syndicate as their unique form of organization and the organizations against them, mentioning that all workers have rights no matter their migratory situation.
Also mentioned the lack of support from Kevin McCarthy (Kern Congressman) with the immigration reform and therefore need of support from the people and corporations.
In this official White House video, Dolores discusses her work and receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
2011 Medal of Freedom recipient Dolores Huerta is a civil rights, workers, and women’s advocate. With Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers of America. Huerta has served as a community activist and a political organizer, and was influential in securing the passage of California’s Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, and disability insurance for farmworkers in California. In 2002, she founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation, an organization dedicated to developing community organizers and national leaders. In 1998, President Clinton awarded her the Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights.
