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Dolores Huerta
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Maria Huffman - Feb. 23, 1968
February 23, 1968
Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Organizing Committee, discusses the Delano grape strike, racial discrimination, and farm work with WBAI's Maria Huffman. MARIA HUFFMAN: We are speaking with Dolores Huerta, vice president of the United Farm Workers Committee. Mrs. Huerta, can you tell us what the goals of the organization are? HUERTA: Well, the United Farm Workers organizing committee, which began a few years ago, has its main objectives the betterment of life for farm workers, for the agricultural workers of the United States. And when I […]
Emma Tenayuca
categories: Interview, Speeches
1930s San Antonio union movement - Feb. 21, 1987
February 21, 1987
THE INSTITUTE OF TEXAN CULTURES Oral History Office SUBJECT: Union movement, S.A., 1930s INTERVIEW WITH: Emma Tenayuca DATE: February 21, 1987 PLACE: Her home in San Antonio INTERVIEWER: Jerry Poyo P: Why don’t we just begin, then, with some of your family background...where was your family originally from? When did they originally come to San Antonio? T: Well, they came from the eastern colonies. And the eastern colonies, I think, were established about 1685, 1687. When San Antonio was El Presidio de San Antonio, established, there was need here to […]
Dolores Huerta
categories: Interview, Speeches
FRONTLINE interview - March 21, 2013
March 21, 2013
This is the edited transcript of an interview conducted on March 21, 2013. INTERVIEWER: To somebody who knows nothing about the problems of sexual assault among female farmworkers, how did you become aware of it? HUERTA: I became aware of it as a young woman, and my mother would never let me work in the fields. She would tell me, “You can work in the packing sheds,” and at first I didn’t know why. And then when I actually did go out and work in the fields, then, like all […]
Dolores Huerta
categories: Interview, Speeches
Democracy Now! interview - March 31, 2008
March 31, 2008
This interview took place on what would have been the 81st birthday of labor activist Cesar Chavez. AMY GOODMAN: I’m joined now in Chicago by activist, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, longtime comrade of Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta. Welcome to Democracy Now!, Dolores. HUERTA: Hi. How are you doing, Amy? GOODMAN: It’s good to have you with us. As you listen to Cesar Chavez, your thoughts? HUERTA: Well, we know that we still have a long way to go, that even though in California we were able to bring […]
Sonia Sotomayor
categories: Interview, Keynote Address, Speeches
Freedom to Write - May 5, 2013
May 5, 2013
Named for the former PEN president and fierce defender of the freedom of expression, the Arthur Miller Freedom to Write Lecture is a defining event of the PEN World Voices Festival. A conversation between Justice Sotomayor and award-winning writer, scholar, and public intellectual Henry Louis Gates, Jr. follows the lecture. I feel so humbled to be in the Great Hall, at a podium at which one of my favorite presidents stood, President Lincoln. But among such distinguished writers – you must believe me, because I say it, right? – I'm […]
Elizabeth Warren
categories: Interview, Press Conference, Speeches
A Conversation with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand- Sept. 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
ELIZABETH WARREN: Thank you. That is a truly wonderful introduction, and I do like to think that all three of the Kennedy brothers would be delighted to look down and see that the two of us hold their seats. So it is wonderful to be here today. It does make me proud to be from Massachusetts, to be here where people like to hear about books and talk about books. [laughter] So I want to dive right in to this book, which you start, Kirsten, with a rather blunt and […]
Kirsten E Gillibrand
categories: Interview, Speeches
A Conversation with Senator Elizabeth Warren - Sept. 14, 2015
September 14, 2015
ELIZABETH WARREN: Thank you. That is a truly wonderful introduction, and I do like to think that all three of the Kennedy brothers would be delighted to look down and see that the two of us hold their seats. So it is wonderful to be here today. It does make me proud to be from Massachusetts, to be here where people like to hear about books and talk about books. [laughter] So I want to dive right in to this book, which you start, Kirsten, with a rather blunt and […]
Geraldine A Ferraro
categories: Interview, Speeches
Obama Should Apologize to Me - March 12, 2008
March 12, 2008
Ferraro was hit by charges of racism after she was quoted in response to a question about the level of excitement about Obama's candidacy: “If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position. And if he was a woman of any color, he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept." She defended her comment with Ann Curry on the NBC Nightly News. ANN CURRY: Former Congressman Geraldine […]
Sarah Palin
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview with Geraldine Ferraro - Nov. 2, 2010
November 2, 2010
Geraldine Ferraro and Sarah Palin joined FOX News Channel analysts Megyn Kelly and Bret Bair on election night in 2010. KELLY: Joining me now—two women who know a thing or two about politics: FOX News contributor Sarah Palin, John McCain's vice-presidential candidate in 2008, and long-time FOX News contributor Geraldine Ferraro, Walter Mondale's running mate back in 1984. They are only two women who have been named vice-presidential nominees. They are sharing the screen for the first time ever. All right—have at it [laughing]. Do you feel nervous? FERRARO: [laughing] […]
Pat Schroeder
categories: Interview, Speeches
Interview on the Washington Journal - May 10, 1998
May 10, 1998
INTERVIEWER: If you open up the BookWorld section of the Washington Post this morning you will see this advertisement for a new book by former Congresswoman Pat Schroeder, who's our guest this morning. Her book is "24 Years of House Work…and the Place is Still a Mess," but the headline on the ad, Congressman, is "Pat Schroeder's still giving 'em hell." Did you write that? SCHROEDER: Me? Sweet little me? Well, they're still...they're giving me a lot to work with. How can I tell you? I mean they're giving me […]