In this interview, Dolores Huerta, a Latino labor leader, civil rights activist and founder of the United Farm Workers of America, recounts her experience in the agricultural labor movement from the 1960s until today. She gives us insights into women farmers’ vulnerability to violence, sexual harassment and rape. A lack of information, knowledge on their rights, language barriers and spatial isolation, combined with fear of retaliation and unemployment not only for the women, but to the whole family, makes it harder and rarer for women to come forward against this kind of violence. Dolores also speaks about union movements as a way of tackling impunity and defending farmers’ rights before agribusinesses. Photo credit: PBS
