Dolores Huerta, activist and co-founder of the United Farm Workers Union, is going to give a talk next month at Northern Illinois University, emphasizing the importance of voting for Latinos in a talk titled “The Need for Social Change: From the Fight in the Fields to the Halls of Congress.” Take care not to track dirt on those venerable marble halls:

The mother of 11 children, Huerta has been arrested more than 20 times for participation in civil disobedience protests, according to the news release. Her accomplishments include:

•Negotiating the first collective bargaining agreement between farm workers and an agricultural enterprise;

•Advancing legislation that allowed the right to vote in Spanish, and the right of individuals to take the drivers license examination in their native language; and

•Helping to secure unemployment benefits for farm workers.

And, according to at least a couple of Catholic schools, you can add

• Tearing the heads of poor little babies with her teeth

to that list of accomplishments. Because what’s a whole life’s work dedicated to bettering the lives of disenfranchised Latinos who aren’t little and cute anymore?

Latino rights icon Dolores Huerta to speak at NIU next month [Daily Chronicle]
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