Posts Tagged ‘farmworkers’
Dolores Huerta Talks About Organizing And Her Hopes For the Future
April 1, 2017 – Civil rights leader Dolores Huerta is in New Mexico this weekend for events to honor her and fellow organizer César E. Chávez. Huerta was born in Dawson, New Mexico and rose to national prominence as an organizer and activist for farm workers in California in the 1960s. Huerta and Chávez founded…
Read MoreEpisode 810 | On the Clock – Chile Harvest Labor Shortage – Web Extra
Host Gene Grant and Line panelists Janice Arnold-Jones, Tom Garrity, Eric Griego and Laura Sanchez-Rivet discuss the difficulty faced by farmers in finding enough laborers to harvest the state’s most iconic crop: green chile.
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