Labor Center Director Kent Wong and 2007 banquet honorees Senator Sheila Kuehl and UFW Cofounder Dolores Huerta
The Labor Center hosted its largest fund-raiser banquet to date on June 14, attended by more than 600 labor and community supporters of Los Angeles.
Honorees were Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez, Senator Sheila Kuehl, and Art Pulaski of the California Labor Federation. María Elena Durazo of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, UFW Cofounder Dolores Huerta, and Tyrone Freeman of SEIU 6434 were also speakers at the event.
Ernesto, a UCLA undocumented student, received a standing ovation from the audience after he shared his story of the challenges and obstacles facing undocumented students at UCLA and at other colleges and universities across the country. He is working with a group of student interns at the UCLA Labor Center to publish the first book on the experiences of undocumented students.
All of the participants took home a special poster that was commissioned for the event, celebrating this year’s May Day march for immigrants’ rights and linking the social justice movements that have been led by the honorees.
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