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\"\"(Beyond Pesticides<\/em>, April 10, 2019) Last month, the Washington State Senate unanimously passed HB 1906, designating April 10 as Dolores Huerta Day. In July of 2018, a similar California law proclaimed April 10\u00a0Dolores Huerta Day in that state. In an interview with Vida del Valle, Ms. Huerta stated, \u201cI\u2019m happy to hear that our young learners will have the opportunity to learn more about social justice and civil rights, because there is still a lot of work to do by the Dolores Huerta Foundation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Following decades of leadership in the fight for farmworker justice, Ms. Huerta founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation in 2002, with a focus on grassroots organizing in Central Valley. According to its website, the Dolores Huerta Foundation trains low-income Central Valley residents \u201cto advocate for parks, adequate public transportation, infrastructure improvements, the reduction of pesticide use, increased recreational opportunities, and culturally relevant services.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe build leadership in low-income communities and organize people so that they can have a sense of their own voices and their own power,\u201d Ms. Huerta said of her foundation in an interview with Civil Eats. \u201cOnce they understand this process and they have the power to change policy \u2013 and politicians \u2013 they really feel empowered and they want to go on and keep organizing,\u201d she explained, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s wonderful. I call it \u2018magic dust.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Dolores Huerta has been spreading this \u201cmagic dust\u201d for over six decades.<\/p>\n

Ms. Huerta co-founded the National Farmworkers Association \u2013 now called the United Farm Workers (UFW) \u2013 in 1962. Ms.Huerta became well known as a thought leader, organizer, lobbyist, and negotiator. As lead organizer for the historic Delano grape boycott of 1965, she convinced more than 17 million consumers to stop buying grapes in support of workers\u2019 demands for collective bargaining rights. The boycott was as much a battle against growers as it was against the U.S. government, which interfered by purchasing grapes to send to U.S. soldiers in Vietnam. Nonetheless, the campaign succeeded, and Ms. Huerta led the negotiations that followed to secure collective bargaining agreements between the California grape industry and UFW.<\/p>\n

Author and organizer Randy Shaw credits Ms. Huerta and her collaborators in the fight for farmworker justice for helping to lay the groundwork for \u201cthe whole idea of Environmental Justice.\u201d \u201cThe Environmental Justice movement said that certain environmental hazards are disproportionately impacting on people of color,\u201d Mr. Shaw explained in the 2017 documentary, Dolores<\/em>. He continued, \u201cIt wasn\u2019t simply stopping DDT, but it was also making the larger point, you\u2019re only allowing this because of who the workers are, and their race and class background.\u201d<\/p>\n

That larger point came with a larger cost. \u201cOnce we started making those kind of demands, we had the same response that the Black movements had,\u201d said Ms. Huerta of the fight for farmworker rights. \u201cOur people were killed.\u201d Ms. Huerta herself was brutally attacked by a crowd control police officer during a demonstration in San Francisco in 1988. She broke three ribs and had to have her spleen removed. Ms. Huerta said, \u201cThe system doesn\u2019t really want brown people or black people to have an organization and to have real power. I found out that no matter what I did, I could never be an American. Never.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fight for pesticide regulation is inextricably linked to the fight for immigrant rights. \u201cGrowers don\u2019t want [their workers] to be legalized,\u201d said Ms. Huerta in\u00a0Dolores<\/em>. \u201cBecause once they\u2019re legalized, they can protest against pesticide poisoning, they can protest against the low wages they\u2019re being given,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

To this day, Ms. Huerta is fighting for stricter regulation and a transition away from pesticide use. As stated on its website, the Dolores Huerta Foundation \u201corganizes communities that face critical exposure to pesticides through their work in the fields and the proximity of their residence to them. . . DHF advocates against the use of harmful pesticides whenever possible.\u201d<\/p>\n

As Ms. Huerta points out in an interview with NPR, women and children working in the fields are especially vulnerable to pesticide poisoning: \u201cThe pesticides in the fields really affect women even more than they do men. They affect children and they affect women more than they do men.\u201d Research indicates that exposure to common agricultural pesticides, both during development<\/a> and in adulthood, is associated with increased susceptibility to breast cancer<\/a>. Across the board, studies show that children\u2019s developing organs create \u201cearly windows of great vulnerability\u201d during which exposure to pesticides can cause lifelong damage.<\/p>\n

Ms. Huerta represents one of many women who have been standing up for the right to healthy and safe working conditions. \u201cThere were more women involved in the UFW than probably every other labor union in the United States combined,\u201d said author and organizer Randy Shaw in\u00a0Dolores<\/em>. However, many believe that Ms. Huerta was not given the credit she deserved for her accomplishments. Ms. Huerta was the only woman on the executive board during her tenure in the UFW, and several of those closest to her lament that fellow board members resisted her leadership expressly because of her gender. When co-founder Cesar Chavez died in 1993, the board chose not to elect Huerta as the new president due, many believe, to their reluctance to appoint a female leader. In August, the UFW executive board appointed\u00a0union Secretary-Treasurer Teresa Romero to replace UFW’s retiring president Arturo S. Rodriguez. She is the first Latina and immigrant president of a U.S. national union.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re knee deep in sexism when it comes to why she isn\u2019t studied, and why people don\u2019t know her,\u201d said educator and activist Curtis Acosta, featured in the 2017 documentary. According to Mr. Acosta, Ms. Huerta publicly criticized the UFW itself for being \u201crife with sexism.\u201d According to Mr. Acosta, Ms. Huerta said, \u201cI even said to Cesar at one point in time, I said, look, we have a lot of machismo here in the farmworkers movement, and I am not going to take it anymore.\u201d Her message to the young women and Chicana girls with whom she now works \u2013 be bold and take credit for your work.<\/p>\n

As some of Ms. Huerta’s colleagues note, her erasure from history is not only the product of sexism, but also a testament to her continued threat to those in power. In 2010, the Texas State Board of Education removed Dolores Huerta from the state\u2019s history curriculum. In that same year, fueled in part by Ms. Huerta\u2019s controversial messaging to students at a Tucson school, the Arizona House Education Committee passed a bill to ban Ethnic Studies in the state. Addressing the committee at the bill\u2019s hearing, then Superintendent Tom Horne characterized Ms. Huerta as \u201ca former girlfriend of Cesar Chavez.\u201d With the passage of the ban, Mr. Horne and the Education Committee struck deeper than insult \u2013 the law effectively targeted and removed a longstanding Mexican-American studies program that had empowered Tucson\u2019s Chicano students to hold pride in their ancestry and stand up for their rights.<\/p>\n

Though the newly designated Dolores Huerta Day will not be recognized as a legal holiday in either Washington or California, its passage provides an opportunity for education and critical reflection. The day offers an opportunity to recognize and support the work of Dolores Huerta and join with advocates standing up for justice in their communities.<\/p>\n

As part of the 37th<\/sup> annual National Pesticide Forum this past weekend, Beyond Pesticides featured a panel of youth advocates for environmental justice. Stay abreast of updates on our Youtube page<\/a> to learn directly from advocates how you can be a part of the movement to grow out of our oppressive present and into an ecologically and socially just future of food production.<\/p>\n

All unattributed positions and opinions in this piece are those of Beyond Pesticides.<\/em><\/p>\n

Sources: The Cascadia Advocate<\/a>, Civil Eats<\/a>, NPR<\/a>, Dolores Huerta Foundation<\/a>, People For the American Way<\/a>, Dolores (2017 film)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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