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🗓️ 1 June 2022

⏱️ 26 minutes

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We’re hard at work producing the next season of Sidedoor, but just in case you can’t get enough Smithsonian podcasts we’re sharing a special guest episode of Portraits, from the Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery. In this episode, grassroots organizer Dolores Huerta talks about how she took on the status quo (in a wrinkled sweater) during the landmark Delano Grape Strike. All the time, she fought on two fronts: resisting exploitation and also resisting sexism, sometimes from within the very labor movement she helped to launch. You can subscribe to Portraits wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0	Hey there side door fans, it's the beginning of summer and here in DC it's beginning to get hotter
0:06.1	and humidor and heavier and on days when I just feel stagnant. One of my favorite things to do
0:14.8	is to walk down to the National Portrait Gallery and step into the cool halls and just take a
0:20.4	little wander through the portraits because you just a few minutes among all these faces is
0:26.5	enough to completely take me out of myself and transport me to other times, other places,
0:32.0	other lives because behind every single portrait is a whole life full of stories.
0:39.2	Now if you don't live within walking distance of the National Portrait Gallery which I know most
0:43.6	people in the world do not, you're in luck because the National Portrait Gallery's podcast
0:48.9	called portraits lets you into these stories from wherever you are. It's where art, biography,
0:54.1	history and identity collide. In the show director Kim Seyet sits down with curators, historians
1:00.4	and sometimes even the people in the portraits themselves. So while we're off working on new stories
1:05.7	for side door we wanted to share an episode of portraits. In this episode Kim speaks with labor
1:11.6	activist Dolores Huerta who along with Caesar Chavez co-founded the United Farm Workers. She talks
1:18.2	about what it was like to work with Chavez about advocating for the labor movement but also within it
1:24.0	on behalf of women. So here's that episode of portraits for you right now and I hope you enjoy it.
1:36.6	You know it's not easy to make change and that in the process you get a lot of pushbacks,
1:42.8	a lot of criticisms and you have to put up that shield to say no matter what you do you're not
1:49.1	going to stop me and not going to get in my way. You know I know what my path is and I'm going to continue it.
1:57.2	Welcome to portraits I'm Kim Seyet the director of the National Portrait Gallery. This season we're
2:03.3	telling stories of resistance and resilience. When you decide to become a warrior you can expect
2:09.7	that you're going to have a lot of arrows that are going to be slung at you. That's my guest today.
2:14.4	The civil rights pioneer Dolores Huerta. She has fought her whole life to lift up the people
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