Women's History Month Celebrating Dolores Huerta

Join GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice as we celebrate Women’s History Month! This March, we are doing everything we can to show our love for women and families. With women’s rights under attack, honoring the achievements and contributions women of all backgrounds have made throughout US History is absolutely vital. Join us in remembering those who paved the way in the struggle for gender equity in the United States– and recognizing history-makers and barrier breakers of today.

This year, we are honored to have an iconic American labor leader and civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta as a featured speaker. Dolores will speak of the challenges and achievements of her path, as well as the contributions and future of the Latinx/immigrant communities in these uncertain times. Her speech will be followed by a question-and-answer session, led by our Host Moderator Olga Talamante.

Also joining us is Danza Xitlalli a cultural, spiritual, and ceremonial group committed to preserving the Indigenous traditions of Danza Mexica.

Danza Xitlalli's vision is to honor the Natural World and provide a space for the traditions and Indigenous wisdom to be passed on to future generations.

Its the oldest Danza Azteca Mexica Indigenous Ceremonial Dance groups north of the Mexican border founded by Maestra Macuilxóchitl and Maestro Francisco Camplis, under the guidance of El General Pedro Rodriguez under the banner of Mexico’s Mesa del Santo Niño de Atocha.

Host Moderator: Latina Civil Rights Activist, Olga Talamante, is the Executive Director Emeritus of the Chicana Latina Foundation (CLF). She became the first Executive Director of CLF in January 2003, serving in that position until March 2018. She received her BA from UC Santa Cruz, and Honorary Doctorate Degree from the University of San Francisco. She is widely respected for her community activism and leadership in the Chicanx, Latin American solidarity, LGBTQ, Immigrant, and progressive political movements. She currently co-chairs the Caravan for the Children Coalition, advocating for the children separated at the border.

Guest Speaker: Dolores Huerta, is Founder and President of the Dolores Huerta Foundation. She co-founded the United Farm Workers of America with Cesar Chavez. Dolores has worked for labor rights and social justice for over 50 years. In 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers union. She served as Vice President and played a critical role in many of the union's accomplishments for four decades. In 2002, she received the Puffin/Nation $100,00 prize for Creative Citizenship which she used to establish the Dolores Huerta Foundation (DHF). DHF is connecting groundbreaking community-based organizing to state and national movements to register and educate voters; advocate for education reform; bring about the infrastructure improvements in low-income communities; advocate for greater equality for the LGBT community; and create strong leadership development. She has received numerous awards among them The Eleanor Roosevelt Humans Rights Award from President Clinton in 1998. In 2012 President Obama bestowed Dolores with The Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian honor in the United States.

GLIDE’s Center for Social Justice works to influence public policy and perception on justice and human rights. Our policy advocacy, community organizing, experiential education, and thought leadership seeks to drive social change by amplifying community voices, influencing mindsets, creating new cultural practices, and transforming institutions of power.

GLIDE Memorial Church

330 Ellis. St.

San Francisco, Ca. 94103

6 PM to 8 PM

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