Dolores Huerta
Keynote speaker-
Marching for Change: Chicago In the National Immigrant Movement
Thursday, March 1, 6 - 7pm
Room 302, Student Center East
University of Illinois at Chicago
750 S. Halsted St.
Reception Following at:
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum
Residents' Dining Hall
800 S. Halsted Street
MARCHING FOR CHANGE: CHICAGO IN THE NATIONAL IMMIGRANT MOVEMENT
UIC and Chicago area scholars will join community activists and artists in analyzing the impact of the immigrant marches, and the social and political significance of the immigrant movement at the local and national levels. Everyone interested is welcome.
IMMIGRANT MOBILIZATION RESEARCH PROJECT
The March 10th and May 1st mobilizations are the first national level mobilizations in U.S. history to be spearheaded by Latinos. They are also the first national mobilizations to focus on the rights of undocumented
immigrants. An important feature of the immigrant movement is that it reflects new and unprecedented connections among immigrant rights, civil rights and workers rights. In April, 2006 more than a dozen UIC faculty members and over 25 graduate and undergraduate students initiated the Immigrant Mobilization Research Project. The purpose of this project is to study the causes, conditions and political policy impact of the immigrant movement, as well as, the role of Chicago in the movement.
Dolores Huerta is one of the most powerful and respected labor movement leaders of the past fifty years. Huerta is most widely know for co-founding the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez in 1962, but her organizing efforts have continued to affect real change in the 45 years that have followed. Huerta served a key role in the early years of farm worker organizing, though has only recently been given full credit for this. Among other contributions was her work as the coordinator for East Coast efforts in the table grape boycott, 1968-69, which helped to win recognition for the farm workers' union. Always politically active, she co-chaired the 1972 California delegation to the Democratic Convention. She led the fight to permit thousands of migrant/immigrant children to receive services. She also led the struggle to achieve unemployment insurance, collective bargaining rights, and immigration rights for farmworkers under the 1985 Rodino amnesty legalization program. Huerta continues as an outstanding labor and political activist.
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Co-Sponsored by:
The Latin American and Latino Studies Program, The Graduate College, Jane Addams Hull-House Museum,The Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy, The Rafael Cintron Ortiz Latino Cultural Center, The Chancellor's Committee on the Status of Latinos, the Department of Political Science, the Department of Sociology, and The Institute of Government and Public Affairs. |
