ITT EXTRA: What Would Dolores Huerta Do?

In The Thick

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News, Politics

4.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2018

⏱️ 14 minutes

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Summary

Maria and Julio give a little history lesson about the complicated legacy of César Chávez. From the conservative trope that Chávez was anti-immigration to Maria meeting Chávez for the first time at a Halloween parade, they talk about the real history of this national figure. They also highlight the activism of Chávez's badass comrade, Dolores Huerta, who is often written out of history, yet is still organizing for social justice at age 87. Reinforcing what we can learn from our history, they connect the farmworker's movement, with the fight for DACA and the youth movement against gun violence.

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to a special Friday show of In The Thick, I'm Maria Nahosa and I'm
0:08.9	Jorica Lobera.
0:09.9	We are in the studio together.
0:11.9	Yes, in Harlem, together.
0:13.0	Never happens on a Friday.
0:15.0	I know, this is nice.
0:16.0	But hey, we're doing this.
0:18.0	Saturday is Caesar Chavez Day, which is his birthday. So we decided to spend some time talking about Cesar Chavez. So Cesar Chavez was a farm worker. Then he became a civil rights activist. He was born in Arizona to Mexican-American
0:36.0	parents and he, along with Dolores Huerta, co-founded what was then known as the National
0:41.3	Farm Workers Association that then became the National Farm Workers Association
0:43.2	that then became the United Farm Workers Union.
0:45.8	I'm going to tell you one of my favorite stories,
0:47.6	you've probably never heard this.
0:48.6	I can't, this is why I wanted to do this.
0:51.2	Okay, so.
0:51.8	And I'm going to show you one of my favorite stories on...
0:54.0	But you go first.
0:55.0	It was mid to late 1980s in New York City and I happened to go to the Halloween Day Parade.
1:02.0	I was around Union Square, you know, just watching the parade and then this guy walked by me who looked just like Caesar Chavez.
1:08.0	And I stopped him and I said, dude, you look just like Cesar Chavez. He goes, I am Cesar Chavez.
1:13.0	No!
1:14.0	And I was like, what are you doing?
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