Rebecca Flores, a labor activist and renowned champion for farmworkers in Texas and in the United States, on Friday, October 11, 2019, will be honored with the Farmworker Movement Lifetime Achievement Award from La Unión del Pueblo Entero (LUPE). The event, which will take place beginning at 7 p.m. at Mayrín Banquet Hall, located at 1117 E. Alberta Road in Edinburg, is the featured portion of the organization’s 4th Annual Biennial Gala. LUPE, which was founded by national labor leaders César Chávez (https://aflcio.org/about/history/labor-history-people/cesar-chavez)and Dolores Huerta (https:// www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dolores-huerta),“is rooted in the belief that members of the low-income community have the responsibility and the ...