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Sunday, October 13, 2013 The Bakersfield Voice

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Dolores Huerta and her seven daughters.

Mother teaches daughters values through activism BY HILLARY HAENES Community contributor

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ourageous, driven, fearless, feminist, optimistic, passionate and strength are only some of the words that Dolores Huerta’s seven daughters use to describe their mother — a labor organizer who helped cofound the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, and a civil rights activist through her Dolores Huerta Foundation. “She has an endless supply of energy, passion and drive when it comes to her purpose in life and thirst for justice. But it’s hard to find one word to describe her. She’s so many things. She’s intelligent, generous, attractive, committed, determined … I could go on and on,” said daughter Juana Chavez-Thomas, 42. Her sisters said the same — their mother personifies so many traits. Dolores, 83, describes herself as a “committed organizer,” one who has practically dedicated her entire life using her skills to try to make a better life for other individuals. “A lot of farm workers have a better life now because of me and my kids,” said Dolores, who had to give up time at home with her kids when they were younger. Because she was heavily involved in gaining civil rights for humankind, she sometimes brought her children to accompany her at events. “We had a very alternative lifestyle. Instead of fun on the weekends, we were doing marches and rallies, and being exposed to a whole different world,” said 36-year-old Camila Chavez, executive director of the Dolores Huerta Foundation.

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These life experiences are immeasurable. “I always exposed them to different experiences. I would take my kids out of school to experience a march, picket lines or boycotts. My kids were able to see a lot. Yeah, they didn’t have perfect attendance (at school), but it made them strong,” Dolores said. Among other lessons, Dolores asked her daughters to share their clothing with farm workers’ kids who didn’t have anything — and to feed the homeless. “We witnessed all the adversity, challenges and just plain ‘hate’ our mother faced, and I would think, when will she give up and say, ‘Enough!’ Well, she never has given up and she continues to be strong for all people,” said Angela Huerta Cabrera, 49. “I have always carried a piece of that strength with me during my nursing career and tried to share it with others.” Another priceless, yet fairly amusing story comes from Juana. She remembered that while growing up, she was not always thrilled with the methods her mother used to teach her children a lesson, or to get a point across. Once, Juana asked her mom to drop her and Maria Elena off a few blocks from school because she was embarrassed to be seen getting out of the old, beat up car they had. Dolores was adamant that her daughters would not have such shallow materialistic values. Dolores pulled up right in front of the school, near a large crowd of students and started to honk the horn. Needless to say, her daughters were mortified and ducked down behind the please turn to DAUGHTERS / PAGE 2

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