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CA: Dolores Huerta starts foundation to promote organizing
Mercury News ^ | 8/18/03 | AP - San Francisco

Posted on 08/18/2003 10:10:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - If anyone deserves a quiet retirement it's Dolores Huerta, but the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who raised 11 children even as she led marches and strikes that repeatedly put her in hospitals and jails, isn't slowing down.

She re-learned how to walk in time to march on Sacramento last year after a near-fatal aneurism left her incapacitated. And now she's giving away a $100,000 award she recently received for her lifetime of service, to launch a new foundation in her name.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: California
KEYWORDS: activism; aflcio; cesarchavez; foundation; huerta; organization; promote; starts; ufw; unions

1 posted on 08/18/2003 10:10:11 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
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If anyone deserves a quiet retirement it's Dolores Huerta, but the co-founder of the United Farm Workers, who raised 11 children even as she led marches and strikes that repeatedly put her in hospitals and jails, isn't slowing down.

Why do I get the distinct impression that all California taxpayers helped raise Dolores Huerta's children?

2 posted on 08/18/2003 10:19:37 AM PDT by DoughtyOne ("He's baaaaack!" Now is he on our side or the side of the (political bigger is better) machines.)
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