8/31/2023 0 Comments Dolores huerta united farm workers![]() ![]() "We've got the power! We've got feminist power," Huerta proclaimed while sitting on a panel at Athena, a weekend-long festival of feature films, documentaries and shorts that highlight women's leadership in real life and the fictional world.Īlongside her sat Gloria Steinem, 82, a social and political activist who went on to become a leader and a spokeswoman for the feminist movement in the late 1960s and early 1970s. ![]() Having premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January, and closing out the seventh annual Athena Film Festival at New York's Barnard College on Sunday night, the doc reminds us that women have stood at the front lines of social justice for quite some time. The lifelong freedom fighter is the subject of "Dolores," a documentary film that corrects the historical record and highlights her contributions to labor equality. Yet her herculean efforts seem to be mostly overlooked in our history books, with Chávez garnering the bulk of the acclaim. Chicana activist Dolores Huerta, 86, has been chanting it the loudest and proudest for the past 50 years.Īs one of the co-founders of UFW, alongside the late César Chávez, the mother of 11 children and of the California labor movement has dedicated a good part of her life to ensuring fair working conditions for migrant farm workers. Or, as it translates in English: "Yes, it is possible" or, roughly, "Yes, one can." It has been a battle cry for the United Farm Workers labor union since it was founded in 1962. ![]()
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