In 2012, President Barack Obama, who used Huerta’s phrase in his 2008 campaign, awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom. She coined the slogan “Sí, se puede” (Yes, we can) for the farm workers’ movement and became a leading figure in the feminist movement of the 1970s.
She co-founded the United Farm Workers alongside Cesar Chavez, helped organize a ground-breaking strike of 5,000 grape workers in 1965, and led the union negotiations with growers. That’s what we need to do.”Įver since Huerta left her teaching career in the early 1960s to organize farm workers to fight for better pay and working conditions, she has been making history. “We go to school so that we can learn about history and talk about history, but we also can make history. “The one thing you have to understand is that when you’re being an activist, you are making history,” said Huerta. There is a lot to be changed, she added, but that can happen only by stepping up and answering the demands of the times.
Students, Huerta said, should exercise their right to vote, but also get involved in issues they feel passionate about, from voting rights to climate change to women’s reproductive rights. Forum’s Institute of Politics Tuesday evening, Huerta urged students to use their own voices and life stories to become activists for change. In a virtual conversation hosted by the JFK Jr. At 91 years old, renowned labor and Civil Rights activist Dolores Huerta continues to inspire.
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