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Dolores Huerta

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Dolores Huerta accused : “I’m gonna say this word. It’s an F word. Not the one you think. The word is ‘fascism.’ We know we heard about fascism in Germany, where they killed millions of Jews, gypsies, disabled people, people of color, okay. That’s what we have here in the United States right now. How do we know that?”

theepochtimes Sunday, November 6, 2022 8:27:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta says : "The work that they have been doing to make democracy work is absolutely, absolutely, absolutely critical,"

npr Thursday, October 13, 2022 7:44:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta said : ”After finishing high school, Huerta began a job teaching but quickly grew disillusioned by the amount of children who showed up tired and hungry to class without clean clothes. When she realized her efforts would be best served fighting the poverty the children faced, she quit her job and began what would become a storied and hugely impactful career in organizing.Farmer strugglesAt age 25, Huerta founded the Stockton Community Service organization, a group dedicated to fighting for the rights of citizens of the community. In this role, Huerta and her colleagues were able to pass a range of important laws, including a law allowing driving licenses to be in Spanish, getting voting ballots translated into Spanish and a law that helped illegal immigrants access public assistance.At the organization, she was introduced through a colleague to Cesar Chavez, with whom she went on to found the United Farm Workers association in 1962. Their partnership resulted in decades of influential organizing, strikes and boycotts that made national headlines.Both were passionate about the plight of farm workers, who worked long, hard hours on very low wages in extremely poor conditions. Many farmers lived in communal housing with dirt floors and crop crates used for furniture. The farm worker’s children were often undereducated as their parents would travel throughout the year, depending on the seasons, to chase work with the ripe crops. After witnessing such conditions, Huerta and Chavez, leading the United Farm Workers, organized a strike to begin in 1965 that would become one of the largest strikes in U.S. history.Delano Grape StrikeThe strike began in 1965 when Filipino workers from the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee walked off the job to protest their pay and conditions. The UFW, then known as the National Farm Workers Association, voted to team up with the AWOC strikers, and began protesting, too.The strike lasted five years and employed a range of organizing tactics, from hunger strikes to picketing. Tens of thousands of protesters marched more than 300 miles from Delano to the California state capital of Sacramento to get the attention of the governor. Other farm workers spread their message by traveling across the country, going to schools and grocery stores to ask people to boycott California grapes from the table region. The grape strike received national attention, with the boycott being particularly successful given that by the end, 17 million Americans had stopped eating grapes.The success of the strike also created strife, as several growers hit back against the workers.“A lot of them were arrested, and Sen. Robert Kennedy then sent his attorneys to get them out of jail,”

wyff4 Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:33:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta said : “We had martyrs, five people that were killed in the farm worker movement,”

wyff4 Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:33:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta said : ”Empowering people with the confidence and knowledge of tackling issues of justice is a key part of her organizing technique, and one that hasn’t changed over time despite developments in technology and the advent of the internet.“You have to show them pictures of people like them, and say, 'well, if they were able to do this, then you can do it,'”

wyff4 Thursday, October 6, 2022 6:33:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta says : "In many cases, the braceros ended up injured, and the contractors returned them to Mexico without reporting the cases and without any benefit,"

eagletribune Sunday, July 24, 2022 7:42:00 PM EAT

Dolores Huerta says : “In many cases, the braceros ended up injured, and the contractors returned them to Mexico without reporting the cases and without any benefit,”

latimes Tuesday, July 19, 2022 1:55:00 AM EAT

Dolores Huerta said : "As an organizer, my job is to go out there and to organize people. To show that they can support essential workers,"