Dolores Huerta is the most prominent Mexican American woman labor
leader in the United States. She is the co-founder of the United Farm
Workers Union. For more than thirty years, she has dedicated her life
to the struggle for justice and dignity for migrant farm workers.
Honored with countless community service, labor, Hispanic and women's
awards, Huerta is a role model for Mexican American women.
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"I think that in our culture that at some point ageism is going
to have to be attacked from front on. Maybe it will happen with the
babyboomers, pretty much the way the African Americans and the Latinos
have attacked racism front on. Ageism is so ingrained in our society.
Just look at the television networks, they are always appealing to
people between 18-34. Our whole society is geared to youth which kind
of makes it a sick society. In other cultures older people are revered
and respected and taken care of. Our society wants to put people into
convalescent homes and warehouse them. It's kind of brutal when you
go into these homes and you see these people who have been abandoned
after they've given all their lives. I don't think it is a soft issue,
I think ageism is a big issue that needs to be taken on." |
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