Chavez-Huerta Week Kicks Off!

A week-long celebration commemorating the lives of Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, two individuals who's fight for justice for the Latino community of the 60s continues to inspire the Latino communities of today.

Thursday April 2nd Immigrant Bashing: Human and Civil Rights Violations in the U.S.A. Today
A teach-in by the Latino Union of Chicago 7:30pm @ OMSA 5710 Woodlawn

Monday April 6th 

The Bandana Project: Sexual Exploitation of Farmworker Women
6:00 @ OMSA Community Lounge
FREE FOOD

Monday April 6th
What is a Chicano?
A Panel on Chicano Identity
7:00 @ OMSA Community Lounge
FREE FOOD

Wednesday April 8th
Dolores Huerta: A Woman in Pursuit of Justice 

MEChA's Cesar Chavez-Dolores Huerta Keynote Speaker
7pm-9pm @ Social Sciences Rm 122 
FREE FOOD

Dolores Huerta herself is our keynote speaker for Chavez-Huerta 2009! Don't miss seeing one of the most influential members of the Latino community in her first visit to the University of Chicago campus! Labor activist, community organizer, and immigrant rights advocate, Dolores Huerta is one of the most prominent figures in Chicano history and U.S. labor right's history. 

In 1962 she, along with Cesar Chavez, founded the United Farm Worker's Association, one of the first successful farm worker unions. Once a key organizer behind the grape boycott of 1965 that resulted in the first successful farm worker contract, Dolores Huerta continues to fight for immigrants in the U.S. through her foundation, advocating for sustainable communities and their pursuit for social justice.

(for more information on Dolores Huerta see http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=81 and http://www.doloreshuerta.org/ )

Tuesday April 7th
Dreaming of Higher EducationA DREAM Act Informational
6:30 @ OMSA 5710
FREE FOOD

Thursday April 9thArte Popular: Activism Through Art
5:30-7:30 @ SMART Museum
FREE FOOD

Friday April 10th
Movie Night
Screening of "The Fight in the Fields"
6pm @ OMSA 5710
FREE FOOD