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After screening "Cesar Chavez," director Diego Luna discusses the film and the farm workers' movement with:
- Arturo Rodriguez, the president of the United Farm Workers;
- Maria Echaveste of the Berkeley Law School, whose parents were ""bracero"" farm workers;
- Harley Shaiken, professor and chair of the Center for Latin American Studies at UC Berkeley.
Also commenting: Dolores Huerta, who worked with Chavez to found the United Farm Workers.
This event was co-sponsored by the Center for Latin American Studies, Canana Films, and the Office of the Chancellor and the Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at UC Berkeley.
Solnit is the author of thirteen books, most recently the bestselling Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism, and the Lannan Literary Award. A product of the California public education system from kindergarten to graduate school, she recently received an honorary doctorate from the Rhode Island School of Design. She is a contributing editor to Harper's and regular contributor to the political site Tomdispatch.com.