Let Your Voice Be Heard!

The Annual Salem Peace Lecture is pleased to celebrate its 20^th year with organizer Dolores Huerta speaking on Immigration Reform & Farm Worker Justice. The Peace Lecture will be held on Wednesday, October 21@ 7:30 PM at Hudson Hall in the Mary Stuart Rogers Music Center at Willamette University. The lecture is free and open to the public.

 

Dolores Huerta is co-founder and Secretary-Treasurer of the United Farm Workers of America, (UFW). In 1962 she and Cesar Chavez formed the National Farm Workers Association, the predecessor to the UFW. She directed the UFW’s national grape boycott, resulting in the entire California table grape industry signing a three-year collective bargaining agreement with the UFW.