SPECIAL "OUR DAILY WORK/OUR DAILY LIVES" BROWN BAG WITH DOLORES HUERTA ON
OCTOBER 5

Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez in
1962 and has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice and dignity for
migrant farm workers. She remains one of the most powerful advocates and
voices for her community to this day and serves as president of the Dolores
Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing.

Wednesday, October 5
12:15 - 1:30
4th Floor Conference Room
Michigan State University Library

JAZZ PREMIERE OCT. 5 HONORS LABOR LEADER DOLORES HUERTA

A jazz composition by MSU Jazz Studies instructor Diego Rivera honoring
national labor pioneer Dolores Huerta will premiere in a special concert in
East Lansing, Mich., Oct. 5.

The Diego Rivera Quartet performs "A Salute to Dolores Huerta" on Wednesday,
Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. at the Hannah Community Center, 819 Abbott Road, East
Lansing.  Tickets are available at the door:  $20 and $10 with student ID.
A reception with Dolores Huerta is also included in the evening's program.
The event benefits the Mexican American Culture Endowment in Memory of Pedro
Rivera, DO at the Center for Great Lakes Culture/MSU Museum.

Dolores Huerta co-founded the United Farm Workers Union with Cesar Chavez in
1962 and has dedicated her life to the struggle for justice and dignity for
migrant farm workers.  She remains one of the most powerful advocates and
voices for her community to this day and serves as president of the Dolores
Huerta Foundation for Community Organizing.  Huerta will visit mid-Michigan
Oct. 4-5 for a series of educational programs at MSU and Lansing-area
schools, and the jazz premiere caps her stay in town.

Diego Rivera, on the faculty of MSU School of Music's Jazz Studies Program
and member of the "Professors of Jazz" combo, drew from his family's own
migrant worker experience in composing the jazz suite.  His father Pedro
worked as a migrant farm worker in Calhoun County before going on to earn a
medical degree at Michigan State University, and serving as a lifelong
social activist and working to improve the lives of Mexican Americans. Diego
Rivera, a saxophonist, studied under jazz great Branford Marsalis and has
performed with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band and
other leading jazz acts.

The educational endowment in Pedro Rivera's name and the benefit concert
help draw attention to the cultural influences and contributions of Chicanos
and Latinos have had on the Midwest, its daily life and its culture.
National Hispanic Heritage Month is Sept. 15-Oct. 15 and October is National
Arts and Humanities Month.

Related links:
o     Dolores Huerta Foundation: doloreshuerta.org
o     Diego Rivera, MSU School of Music:
www.music.msu.edu/faculty/faculty.php?id=31
o     MSU Museum and Center for Great Lakes Culture: museum.msu.edu
o     Hispanic Heritage Month 2005:
www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/
facts_for_features_special_editions/005338.html
o     Arts and Humanities Month:
ww3.artsusa.org/get_involved/visibility/visibility_002.asp