Dolores Huerta
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3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 20 Mar
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With the movement, I couldn't do that because I didn't have the money to do that. So I would have to depend on family and friends to help me with my children. And then in the farm workers movement, we did set up a daycare because we had so many women that were actually there on the picket line. So We set up actually the first daycare for farm workers in the state of California. Really?
Well, yes. To date, I think there are many daycare centers. I shouldn't say many, not enough. There are daycare centers for farm workers now that are set up in the state of California for farm workers because they have to go to work pretty early. They have to be out there in the fields at 6 a.m. in the morning. And there are daycare centers for them.
and not enough, and often daycare centers that they can afford. In the Farm Workers Movement, of course, it was free for all of us because we were not working for wages. We were working for stipends, and so that was really important. And it was not just myself. It was Cesar Chavez's wife, Helen, and all of the other women that were active in the movement.
Oh, yes. Helen was a very strong woman. In fact, I like to say that Caesar never would have accomplished what he did because his wife was such a strong supporter.
Well, almost everything. Really? Well, she did almost everything for Cesar. He didn't have to do very much, you know, in terms of their own personal life, you know, because she took care of everything.
Absolutely. I mean, he had that support, you know, that was so incredible that he knew that he could do whatever he could and that she would support him all the way.
Yes, I do often. And I know that's something that as mothers we have to worry about. And that is a sacrifice, I think, that we make. But we know that it takes a village to raise a child. But it is so important to have women in power. Again, for all of the reasons that we've spoken about, that we as women, then we have to not feel guilty about getting others to help us raise our children.
Well, I would say that we have to have faith in ourselves, number one. And then we have to have faith in other people. And we have to have faith in our children also. My mother was a working parent. I remember my mother coming home when she was gathering money to start her own business. She would work in the daytime as a waitress, at night in the cannery.
And she would come home and change her uniforms. But she made us understand what she was working for. And we as children understood that. My own children, they grew up in the movement. They understand what we were working for. They knew that we were making huge sacrifices. My kids did not have the nice middle-class life that I had growing up, but they understood that.
And our children can be very resourceful. Kids understand that we can set the values for them and make them understand this is why we're making these sacrifices. And then, of course, you have to get everybody to come in and help us raise our children. And we have to do this. This should not be... Maybe, or should we?
No, we have to, because we know that if we're going to save our planet from global warming, if we're going to save our humanity from wars and destruction, we women have to step up and we have to take the power.
Absolutely. Absolutely. Burning Man is a giant art show. This is what it is. People have their what they call the art cars. They have these incredible, incredible vehicles that they make, and they turn them into art pieces. There's beautiful standing art pieces out there that can only be created because some of them are so huge, like the burning man, the man that they burn himself.
But then they do this, usually some type of a church or some kind of a religious object that they also make, like a castle. And these buildings that they build and these art pieces are so incredible and so unique that you can only see them at Burning Man. So this is like a giant art show.
And then it's like a people's convention because they have all types of workshops, you know, for yoga or cooking or whatever you like. It's like a big playground where you can just play for the 10 days that you're there. If you just want to go for a weekend with Just having fun, staying up all night, dancing all night. It's just wonderful. It's a great experience. Do you have a playa name?
Yes, I think we did. But I think it was for the butterflies, the mariposas. Yes. The butterflies. And that was, of course, a tribute to all of our immigrant community.
Well, actually, no. I'm one of those. Because of my age, we take a trailer. Oh, okay. And there is a lot of dust. So I'd say for elder people like myself, I would definitely recommend the trailer.
All right.
Yes, I would say to my 21-year-old self, again, never fear. Don't be afraid to make decisions. And be true to yourself, Dolores. Be true to your heart. Listen to your inner voice and take the challenges that are there before you. And yes, go out and do what you can to help the world.
Well, I would just say, what I would say to my 50-year-old self is exercise more and take care of your health, because who knows, you might live to be 94 years old. Okay.
I'm looking forward to a more peaceful world. I think we could make it happen. Maybe not in my lifetime, but again, with Feminist Empowered, we can achieve that. We can achieve John Lennon's world. Imagine a world without borders, you know, a world where people all share resources and where we can fight for peace instead of wars and domination.
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