Also, I really love Lancaster.
Name: Dolores Huerta
Dates: (1930-present)
Why she rocks: She is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America (alongside Cesar Chavez), and fought for the rights of farm workers across America. Directed several boycotts (including one on the California grape industry), that resulted in negotiations for better treatment of agricultural workers. She also founded the Dolores Huerta Foundation to raise money for disadvantaged women and children.
Quote: “Walk the street with us into history. Get off the sidewalk.”
Because of this woman… California agricultural workers are given more respect for their hard work.
good:
In 2006, citing the burden of “visual pollution,” São Paulo, Brazil, outlawed all exterior advertising in the city. Businesses said it would destroy them. Turns out they were wrong:
Five years later, have all the businesses in São Paulo gone under? Hardly. In fact, most citizens and some advertising entities report being quite pleased with the now billboard-less city. A survey this year found that a 70 percent of residents say the Clean City Law has been “beneficial.” “São Paulo’s a very vertical city,” Vinicius Galvao, a journalist, said in an interview with NPR. “That makes it very frenetic. You couldn’t even realize the architecture of the old buildings, because they were just covered with billboards and logos and propaganda. And there was no criteria.”
How about Times Square next?
“The winter of 2010 I lived in New Orleans, and a series of traumatic events took place. I came to town with a broken heart, hoping to find time to recover. What I found instead was a winter where members of my community suffered violent assault, nine people died, our creative efforts during Mardi Gras fell prey to police brutality, ending with a police raid of our infoshop, The Iron Rail Collective. I am writing this story as a witness to the events that took place, but also to remind those who were there about the good things that happened, too. It was one of the most important winters of my life, and I don’t want to forget it.”
“At first, our present-day smugglers establish the “how”: how did a rag-tag movement of non-violent resistance fighters manage to defy the powerful Russian regime over 40 years and rekindle such a passion for the native language that it is flourishing today? But…
Embroidered map of the Appalachian orogeny (mountain building event that created the Appalachians) counterposed with a diagram of mountaintop removal mining. Part of a series I’m doing about June’s March on Blair Mountain.
This hurts.
Also, I love Andrea Gibson.
Untitled (Calciner in Detergent Factory) From the series: The Reign of Chemistry, 1953.
W. Eugene Smith
