United Farm Workers President Teresa Romero awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
News and Events
- 12/22/2000 Dolores Huerta released from UCLA to spend holidays with her family
- 12/11/2000 Dolores Huerta’s condition improves to fair
- 12/10/2000 Associated Press: Farm labor leader Dolores Huerta recovering from pneumonia
- 12/08/2000 Dolores Huerta’s condition once again critical after the UFW co-founder is transferred to UCLA
- 12/06/2000 Statesman Journal : Mushroom dispute comes to Oregon: Union supporters draw attention to the Pictsweet boycott by rallying in Portland.
- 12/05/2000 California mushroom workers lead ‘human billboard’ to kick off boycott in Oregon
- 12/05/2000 Associated Press: UFW co-founder readmitted to Bakersfield hospital
- 11/28/2000 Sacramento Bee: Unboycotting grapes: Farm workers union moves beyond protest
- 11/22/2000 Associated Press: UFW calls off grape boycott in time for Thanksgiving
- 11/22/2000 Los Angeles Times: Farm Workers Union Ends 16-Year Boycott of Grapes
- 11/21/2000 Thanksgiving message: UFW gives thanks for recent gains as it calls off table grape boycott
- 11/20/2000 Los Angeles Times: Muralist Takes On Internet Image Provider Court: She joins a suit by the UFW claiming a Web firm founded by Bill Gates is stealing artists’ work
- 11/17/2000 Associated Press: Stricken UFW cofounder released from hospital
- 11/17/2000 San Diego Union Tribune: Blood donations will honor labor leader
- 11/17/2000 Bakersfield Californian : 1 UFW gets vote out in caravan
- 11/15/2000 Latino.com: Photography Exhibit Shows Cesar Chavez’s Charisma and Personality
- 11/09/2000 Associated Press: 1 Condition of stricken UFW co-founder upgraded to `fair’
- 11/06/2000 Honor Dolores Huerta by getting out the vote for Gore and other Democratic candidates, Huerta family asks
- 11/06/2000 Associated Press: 1 Gravely ill UFW organizer Dolores Huerta urges turnout
- 11/06/2000 UFW ‘human billboard’ line spurs Latino get-out-the-vote in Glendale for Gore, other Democratic candidates
- 11/06/2000 50-car farm worker caravan to election eve Latino get-out-the-vote rally in Bakersfield
- 11/05/2000 Latino recording stars join UFW get- out-the-vote rally for Gore & Salinas
- 11/01/2000 San Diego Union Tribune – 1 Farm workers claim grower violated laws on hiring, pay -Lawsuit alleges they were displaced by foreign help
- 11/01/2000 Associated Press: 1 UFW co-founder remains in critical condition after surgery
- 11/01/2000 San Francisco Chronicle: 1 Dolores Huerta Listed as Critical After Operation UFW co-founder fights bleeding after surgery