Every moment is an organizing opportunity, every person a potential activist, and every minute a chance to change the world. This includes YOU, too.
Today, Dolores Huerta is a renowned labor leader and civil rights activist. She led negotiations in the historical Delano Grape Strike and organized her community to major victories, including higher wages and protections against pesticides for farm workers.
But, before all this, Dolores Huerta was eleven years old, watching her Japanese American classmates disappear from their classrooms and sent to internment camps.
She was a 24-year-old teacher in a classroom filled with the children of farmworkers, realizing that educators alone don’t have the resources to support their students when they show up to school in need of food or better clothes.
And, she was only 25 when she began organizing in her community in Stockton, California. Family by family, house by house, she made it her mission to make her neighbors aware of their power to create change.
Every year, on April 10, we honor Dolores Huerta Day as a reminder that power exists within each one of us to build the future we need.
Like Dolores, you may have encountered situations that made you aware of the challenges your community faces. In the last year alone, we’ve witnessed immigration agents unleashing violence and harm in our communities. Just like Dolores, you have the power to turn these painful moments into an opportunity to organize your friends and neighbors, and together, build the future we need. ✊🧡
Ready to tap into that power? Join us on Wednesday, April 15, at 6:30 pm ET/ 5:30 pm CT at our “Live, Laugh, Organize: Immigrant Day of Resilience” Community Call to learn how to join thousands of your neighbors in a national May Day of Action.
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Together, we are power. Generation after generation, from farmworkers who led mass boycotts to our neighbors now standing up for immigrants in the face of violent ICE raids, our communities have stood united to protect one another. At our Immigrant Day of Resilience celebration, we’re ready to honor this resilience, courage, and love that runs in our veins.
Will you join us at our Immigrant Day of Resilience call for an exclusive stand-up set from comedian Che Guerrero and learn how to take part in the nationwide May Day action? 👇You’ll receive this cute sticker when you attend our call as a reminder that our power is built together:
See you there,
Matias and the UWD team
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