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Dolores - Free Screening

  • Palm Theater - SLO Film Center 817 Palm Street San Luis Obispo United States (map)

Palm Theatre - SLO Film Center

RSVP (2017) Runtime: 95 minutes Language: English

Director: Peter Bratt Producer: Brian Benson Executive Producer: Regina K. Scully, Carlos Santana, Tom Steyer

Cinematographer: Jesse Dana Editor: Jessica Congdon

In partnership with Diversity Coalition San Luis Obispo County, and in celebration of Women's History Month and Cesar Chavez Day, we bring you the documentary: DOLORES.

Dolores Huerta bucks 1950s gender conventions by starting the country's first farm worker's union with fellow organizer Cesar Chavez. What starts out as a struggle for racial and labor justice, soon becomes a fight for gender equality within the same union she is eventually forced to leave. As she wrestles with raising 11 children, three marriages, and is nearly beaten to death by a San Francisco tactical police squad, Dolores emerges with a vision that connects her new found feminism with racial and class justice.

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