Huerta, Dolores, 1930-

  • Democracy Now! January 28, 1999

    East Timor; Caesar Chavez Induction into Labor Hall of Fame |(34 Minutes) East Timor Bowing to international pressure, the Indonesian military has retreated for the first time in 23 years from its hard-line stance on Indonesia’s continued occupation of East Timor. After a prolonged meeting with Prsident B.J. Habibie and his cabinet, Foreign Minister Ali…

  • Now You Have Touched The Women : Now You Have Struck A Rock (Part 3 of 3)

    Now You Have Touched The Women : Now You Have Struck A Rock. Actuality of a women’s event, held a the Berkeley Community Theater, 30 June 1990. CONTENT: Pt.1. A Message from Winnie Mandela / read by Roscoe Dellums — pt.2. Comment on Mandela’s letter / Angela Davis — pt.3. HR1580 : sponsored by Congressman…

  • The Delano crusade / Cesar Chavez ; moderated by Chuy Variella.

    Two part series which examines the life, work, and death of noted Farm Labor organizer who championed migrant workers in California and other western States.|THE DELANO CRUSADE / Cesar Chavez| moderated by Chuy Variella. – SERIES: Cesar Chavez : a remembrance| no. 1 – Two part series which examines the life, work, and death of…

  • Now you have touched the women : now you have struck a rock.

    Actuality of a women’s event, held at the Berkeley Community Theater. |r.1. pt.1. Panel discussion : women and apartheid / Alice Walker, Oesi Wood Jones, Genina Abron ; moderated by Parish Williams (30 min.) ; pt.2. Children’s drumming ; pt.3. Introduction from the stage / Angela Davis and Janice Mirakatoni ; pt.4. Interview with the…

  • Ten year memorial service for Robert Kennedy / produced by Roy Tuckman.

    Actuality. Speeches at the memorial service by William Purcell, Rabbi Bierman, Jess Unruh, Shirley MacLaine, Jerry Brown, Rick Tuttle, Luis Olivares, Willis Edwards, Dolores Huerta, Allard Lowenstein, Paul Schrade, Rosie Greer, Yvonne Burke, and Mervyn Dymally.

  • The Nation honors Carey McWilliams.

    Speeches at a dinner honoring McWilliams: Studs Terkel, Tom Glazer, Jules Feiffer, Clarence Mitchell, Dolores Huerta, Luis Valdez, James Abourezk, I.F. Stone, Yip Harburg, Hamilton Fish, Victory Navasky, and Carey McWilliams.

  • The California grape strike / reported by Nanette Rainone.

    Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the National Farm Workers AFL-CIO and Grape Boycott Coordinator, along with and activists Antonia Soledad, Venustiano Olguin, and Mark Silverman discuss the Grape Boycott. Interviewed by Nanette Rainone.

  • Dolores Huerta : Vice President of the United Farm Workers / interviewed by Maria Huffman.

    Dolores Huerta, Vice President of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee discusses the Delano grape strike, racial discrimination, and farm work with WBAI’s Maria Huffman. She describes the exploitative conditions of California farm workers, the lack of recourse available to non-unionized underpaid agricultural laborers, and how the UFW was able to secure union contracts with…

  • Delano now / Dolores C. Huerta ; interviewed by Elsa Knight Thompson.

    Dolores C. Huerta (1930 – ), Vice President of the United Farm Workers and Director of Contract Negotiations, discusses the negotiations centering on the 1965 Delano grape strike with KPFA’s Elsa Knight Thompson. They discuss the UFW’s negotiations with the produce industry, as well as the state of the grape boycott.

  • The United Farm Workers in Delano / produced by Tim McGovern.

    On the history of the UFW IN Delano, its activities, struggle, and impact: part one includes interviews with Dolores Huerta, first vice-president of the UFW, and Ben Maddoc, head of the organizing department. |r.1. The struggle goes on. — r.2. A tour of the union’s hometown. |r.1. The struggle goes on. — r.2. A tour…