en Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:38:49 GMT Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:38:49 GMT http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=112 6pm - 7:30pm
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Dolores Huerta is president of the Dolores Huerta Foundation, dedicated to community organizing. She co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar E. Chavez and is also an active member of the Fund for the Feminist Majority. As legislative advocate for the Community Service Organization and the United Farm Workers Union, she was instrumental in passing historic legislation: disability insurance for farm workers, voting ballots in Spanish, driver’s licenses in the driver’s ethnic language, public assistance eligibility for resident immigrants, the end of the infamous “bracero” program, and legalization for 1 million farm workers under the Immigration Reform Act of l984-85. As the main negotiator for the UFW, she obtained many “firsts” that had been denied to farm workers: basic sanitation and clean drinking water in the fields, medical coverage, pensions, job security, seniority rights, rest periods, paid vacations and holidays, and protections from pesticides in union contracts. Dolores Huerta has received numerous awards, among them the Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998,Puffin/Nation Award for Creative Citizenship, the Ohtli award from the Mexican government, the Smithsonian Institution James Smithson Award, and nine honorary doctorates from universities throughout the United States... ]]> http://www.imow.org/calendar/viewEvent?eventId=112