Category Archives: Dolores Huerta

Dolores Huerta: Send Message To Trompudo

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Over the years, Dolores in support of our local organizing efforts in the Pomona Valley region in support of workers, students, unions, and community. For many of the thirty years that I took students to La Paz and Delano to carry out engagement projects, Dolores would join us in sharing her lessons, marching with us in Bakersfield, and supporting our student teatro presentations.

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Renaming Cesar Chavez Park

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Good turn-out for community meeting to rename Cesar Chavez Park in Pomona with numerous speakers (including renowned artist Paul Botello) who have helped in the development and preservation of the park and its murals. Nomination forms were sent out to the neighborhood and passed out at the meeting. Among the names proposed was “Si Se Puede Park” (based on a phrase that civil rights and farmworker leader Dolores Huerta came up with and used throughout her years of organizing farmworker and labor communities – reflecting the historical resilience, strength, and vision of our communities to overcome all obstacles in advancing a quality of life, intersectional unity, and equity). “Dolores Huerta Park “was also proposed

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