Dolores Huerta attends mural dedication ceremony in downtown LA – NBC Los Angeles
Labor activist Dolores Huerta attended the dedication ceremony for her new mural in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday.
It marked the 96-year-old civil rights icon’s first public look since she got here ahead with sexual abuse allegations in opposition to her farmworkers union co-founder César Chávez in March. The allegations prompted a reckoning over his legacy in California and past.
Huerta used Saturday’s event to talk out in opposition to the current techniques of federal immigration officers.
“Everyone knows what our immigrant neighborhood has been beneath, the way in which that they’ve been attacked, the way in which they’re being detained and all of this horrible stuff that’s taking place to our immigrant neighborhood,” she mentioned.
The mural, titled “Strolling into Historical past,” is situated on the north aspect of the Barclay Lodge. It was created by Robert Vargas, an artist behind a number of of LA’s well-known murals.
Earlier this yr, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors declared Jan. 24 as Robert Vargas Day.
