Dolores Huerta Labor Institute

Come celebrate Labor History Week at the opening reception of the special showing of California labor history and art.  The first week of April in California is Labor History Week. Signed into law as AB 1900 (Nakano) in 2002, its purpose is to encourage schools "to commemorate this week with appropriate educational exercises that make pupils aware of the role the labor movement has played in shaping California and the United States."  The exhibition features panels from the California Labor History Exhibit* and posters from the project Tradeswomen Across the Next Generation (TANG).**  It will run through May 7, 2010. 

Sponsored by the 13th District Council Office of Council President Eric Garcetti, AFT Local 1521, UTLA Local 1021, California Federation of Teachers, Cal State Dominguez Hills Labor Studies Department, the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, and the Dolores Huerta Labor Institute of the Los Angeles Community College District. Posters were funded by the California Council of the Humanities Story fund.

*The California Labor History Exhibit  is a project of the Speaker's Commission on Labor Education, the California State Library, San Francisco State University, San Jose State University and California State University, Northridge

** The project was a collaboration between CSU Dominguez Hills professors Vivian Price, and Laura Talamante, Client Services Director Rikka Racelis, artists Joe Gutierrez, and Anthy Hadjimarkos, and the tradeswomen and youth group members. Youth from the group Mentoring Youth Through Empowerment (MYTE ), at the Long Beach Lesbian and Gay Center, interviewed tradeswomen and used the photos provided by the tradeswomen and text from the interview transcripts to create collages that were the basis for the poster design.