Delores 2018

     Dolores Huerta skirted 1950’s gender conventions by starting the country’s first migrant farm worker’s union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez.  In the beginning, it was a struggle for racial and labor justice.  Soon after, it became a fight for gender equality within the same union she was eventually forced to leave.  To complicate everything else Dolores is involved in, she has eleven children.  She has had three marriages and she is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad baton.  She received three broken ribs and her injured spleen needed to be removed.  Dolores has a vision that connected her to feminism along with racial and class justice.

     Dolores received a LOT of flack for leaving her children behind to be raised by someone else!!  She also was derided for having eleven children and three marriages!!  In reality, as long as her children are receiving proper care what is the complaint?  It’s her own business about her marriages, does this history deny her the chance to make changes in America?  She is tirelessly working for the Mexican laborers in the fields and their treatment by the owners.  The wages are too low and there is pesticide use on the produce.  These chemicals cause skin sores and sickness in the workers.  This is an underrepresented people and they needed a strong voice to advocate for fair and better treatment.  Dolores Huerta and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers organization.  Dolores has been honored by US presidents and she received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.  3 1/2* (I liked this movie)
    
95 min, Doc directed by Peter Bratt, written by Jessica Congdon and Peter Bratt with Dolores Huerta, Martin Luther King, Luis Valdez, Ricardo S. Chavez, Fred Ross Sr., Lori De Leon, Juana Chavez, Randy Saw, David Roberti, Elseo Medina, Eloy Martinez, Rick Rivas, Emilio Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Bill Kircher.

Note:  Imdb 6.9 out of 10 with 257 reviews, Roger Ebert 3 1/2* Matt Zoller Seitz, 98% critic with 43 critics, The Guardian 3* out of 5* Cath Clarke, Common Sense Media 4* out of 5* age 11+ Michael Ordona, 4* positive, 4* role models, 3* violence, 1* sex, 1* languageWashington Post 3.5* out of 4* Lora Grady, Slant Magazine 2.5* out of 4* Peter Goldberg, Amazon 5* with 37 reviews, Letterboxd 3.8*, Metacritic 81 out of 100 with 11 critics (11 positive) user score 7.3 out of 10 (3 positive, 1 negative).