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Labor Day

Monday, September 3, 2012
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Dolores Huerta Receives Medal of Freedom

Thursday, May 31, 2012

Something I missed this week…and don’t worry, I got Lalo’s permission to put this up.

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Huerta to Receive Medal of Freedom

Friday, April 27, 2012

The White House released its list of who will be awarded the Medal of Freedom this year. Among them is Dolores Huerta. This is from the official citation: Huerta is a civil rights, workers, and women’s advocate. With Cesar Chavez, she co-founded the National Farmworkers Association in 1962, which later became the United Farm Workers [...]

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Beck Goes After Our Raúl

Thursday, September 2, 2010

After the jump is the latest from Raúl Grijalva’s DailyKos diary. It is in response to this. By the way, could conservatives agree on who invited Dolores Huerta? Tom Horne complained that the ethnic studies program brought her, while Glenn Beck seems to think Grijalva brought her. Ya know, they’ve been complaining about this incident [...]

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Does Tom Horne Know What He Is Talking About?

Monday, February 22, 2010

Last week, Tom Horne used some of his time testifying on his perennial cause of getting rid of ethnic studies programs to making a gratuitous jab at Dolores Huerta. He refered to Huerta as “César Chávez’s girlfriend.” Whatever you think of Huerta, Chávez or the farm worker movement, it is not only a lie, but [...]

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