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by Duane Campbell
There is an important new film out – Dolores, the
story of former DSA Honorary Chair Dolores Huerta and her fight for justice.
(All DSA honorary chairs were eliminated by the 2017 DSA convention.) She is
the woman holding the Huelga sign on the DSA landing page. If
you want to be inspired by her struggle for social justice, go see the
film.
Although at times ignored by the Anglo media, and at other times
castigated as a red and an “outside agitator,” Huerta tirelessly led the fight
for racial and labor justice alongside Cesar Chavez, becoming one of the most
important feminists of the twentieth century. If you don’t know her story, you
should ask yourself why. She continues the fight on many fronts to this
day, at age 87. With unprecedented access to Dolores, the film reveals
important parts of the struggle for dignity and justice for farmworkers, as
well as the raw, personal stakes involved in committing one’s life to social
change.
