The International Action Network for Gender Equity and Law is an organization of pro-bono lawyers dedicated to advocate for equality and justice for all people. IANGEL will be hosting an event on December 11 to celebrate Human Rights Day.
The celebration will feature Dolores Huerta, a feminist labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee with César Chávez in the 6o’s to fight for the rights of agricultural workers in the California valleys.
One of the struggles that she fought for with the National Farmworkers Association (which later became the UFW) was for a fair wage for grape field workers. In 1965, the NFA joined the strike that was already underway in the Filipino farms in Delano. The boycott lasted 5 years and along with the civil rights movement it gained momentum forcing the grape industry in California to agree to a collective bargaining agreement.
To attend this free event on Thursday 11, from 5:30 to 7:30p.m., register here.
Your article has many errors regarding Dolores Huerta and the UFW. The photo caption misstates that Dolores is 82, she is 84 years old.
The organization she and Cesar founded together was the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA). The NFWA was the predecessor the the United Farm Workers Organizing Committe which later changed its name to the United Farm Workers of America once it became affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
The Filipino organization that the NFWA joined in the Delano Grape Strike was the Agricultural Workers of America, AWA which was founded earlier by Larry Itiiong and Dolores Huerta while she worked for the Community Service Organization (CSO).
The 1965 strike was a greater cause than fair wages, that was just one of the many issues which included health and safety, pesticide control, fresh water and toilets in the fields, breaks, a medical plan, a pension fund, a grievance procedure, eight hour work days and more.
At eighty-four Dolores continues her activism and civil rights work as President of The Dolores Huerta Foundation.