Song dedication by Rosa Martha Zarate for Senator María Elena Durazo at fundraiser kick-off for her campaign to become the next LA County Supervisor in District 1. Rosa Martha is an organizer of immigrant workers and a musician who has given concerts in Central and South America (including Portugal and the United States). Rosa Martha has had a long history of making the connections between her use of popular education and the art of music to community-based organizing and cross-border social movements in Latin America and the barrios of the Southwest. Her recent book, Our Grandfathers Were Braceros” highlights her support, in the last 20 years of the binational social movement of ex-Braceros – and includes a recovery of historical memory of former bracero grandparents and the relatives of those who have already disappeared in their fight for justice. Rosa Martha is the cofounder of Libreria del Pueblo, Inc., the cofounder of Calpulli, an international leader in fighting for the rights of bracero workers, and an organizer in advancing alternative economy projects in Indigenous and peasant communities in the US and Mexico.
