Dolores C. Huerta is the co-founder of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO (UFW). A long time grassroots activist, Dolores has played a major role in the American labor and civil rights movements. She will be speaking about global struggles to support farmworkers, the importance of Fair Trade, and Berkeley's Measure O ballot initiative. Measure O would require all brewed cups of coffee sold in Berkeley to be Fair Trade, shade grown, or organic certified. Dolores will speak about how this law will help small farmers survive in the global marketplace.

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Measure O is a historic initiative in Berkeley that will improve the lives of struggling coffee farmers around the world - and ensure the preservation of the natural environment in coffee farming communities and beyond. It a continuation of previous legal efforts to promote human rights and environmental preservation around the world, including divestment from South Africa and sanctions against products made in Burma under slavery. If the measure passes successfully, it will pave the way for similar initiatives in other cities, bringing social and environmental justice to center stage. This is what we've all been working to do for years through campaigns against the WTO and other global rulemaking bodies -- demand that the rules of commerce be subordinated to workers' rights and environmental protection. We the people, not corporations, should decide! Berkeley began a national movement for human rights by divesting from South Africa in the time of apartheid and it now has the chance to once again be a leader in ensuring social, economic, and environmental justice for coffee farmers, consumers, and the environment we all share. Please see www.globalexchange.org/coffee for more information.