Ep 28: Dolores Huerta & Camila Chávez—mothering social action

If you don’t know who Dolores Huerta is yet, get ready to meet one of the most important activists in American history. Dolores has been organizing, rallying, and changing policy for workers’ rights and racial justice for over 70 years. In this grand finale of our "Meet the MAYtriarchy" special series, we chat with the living legend herself, and her youngest daughter, Camila Chávez, because Dolores didn’t just mother a movement, she also mothered 11 children at the same time.

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Dolores Huerta was an equal partner in co-founding the first farm workers unions with Cesar Chávez. Tirelessly leading the fight for racial and labor justice, Huerta evolved into one of the most defiant feminists of the 20th century — and she continues the fight to this day, at 88. From her early years with the United Farm Workers to her work with the headline-making grape boycott launched in 1965 to her role in the feminist movement of the '70s, to her continued work as a fearless activist.

Camila Chávez is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). From the DHF headquarters in Bakersfield, Ms. Chávez oversees training for low-income community members in the areas of leadership and organizing skills specific to civic and electoral participation so that they can become catalysts for change in their own communities.

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MOMMA B’S GOODIE BAG OF HELPFUL LINKS
Learn more about Dolores and Camila’s Foundation: http://doloreshuerta.org/

See the trailer for Dolores: http://doloreshuerta.org/buy-dolores-the-movie-support-dhf/

Dolores in The National Women’s History Museum: http://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dolores-huerta

Get involved: (one of many places!!) https://www.dosomething.org/us

No advice adventure is complete without adorableness: https://www.instagram.com/p/BjVJ8iWlsZ1/

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Special thank you to Tena Rubio to make our recording day with Dolores and Camila happen. Radio Bilingue for hosting us in Fresno and Luis Sanchez and the whole staff at The Dolores Huerta Foundation.

Advice from Mom is a production of Wise Ones Advice Services. It was produced by Juliet Hinely & Rebecca Garza-Bortman. Editing by Juliet Hinely. Mixed and mastered by Jake Young. Publicity by Anna Beyder. This episode’s interview was recorded in two places at once: in Bakersfield with Tena Rubio and Stanton “Danny” Bringer and in Fresno at Radio Bilingue by Jorge Ramírez. Audio assistance, transportation, and dog rescue by Bryan Garza. Our theme music is by my band, Love Jerks.

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