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You can't acknowledge #WomensHistoryMonth without celebrating UFW co-founder @DoloresHuerta for all she has done since the early days and all she continues to do today to inspire and improve the lives of farm workers and working people. ¡Viva Dolores Huerta!
March 22, 2025 at 2:13 AM
Protest in front of Immigration/ICE office in Bakersfield today.

This is 90 y/o labor leader Dolores Huerta attending. She co-founded the National Farm Workers Association with fellow activist Caesar Chavez.
January 9, 2026 at 11:38 PM
Dolores Huerta, the labor activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers with Cesar Chavez, is speaking out about the sexual assault allegations.

She says she stayed silent for the sake of the movement.
March 20, 2026 at 2:30 PM
95-year-old United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta at Albuquerque’s Hands Off! rally, completely packing the downtown Civic Plaza despite fierce winds and 45 degree temps. She can still whip up a crowd!
April 6, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor leaders of the 20th century.

Dolores witnessed firsthand how many farm workers in her community suffered from low wages and poor working conditions. As co-founder of United Farm Workers, she organized hugely impactful walkouts and boycotts.
September 23, 2026 at 11:49 PM
Happy #HispanicHeritageMonth! Organizers like Dolores Huerta have shown us that collective action leads to collective power. A civil rights & labor activist, in the '60s, Huerta co-founded @ufw.bsky.social, the largest farm workers union, protecting vegetable, berry, winery, and dairy workers.
September 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Dolores Huerta, Co-Founder of the UFW, labor and civil rights leader continues to inspire! We celebrate and honor the tremendous contributions @DoloresHuerta has made to farm workers and working people everywhere! #UFW2024
September 20, 2024 at 8:13 PM
United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta went public with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a NYT investigation.

Huerta said she kept the secret because, “I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for.”
Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.
www.motherjones.com
March 18, 2026 at 7:57 PM
Labor leader Dolores Huerta, who co-founded the United Farm Workers union with Cesar Chavez in the 1960s, says the Trump administration's immigration crackdown is "ethnic cleansing" aimed at all people of color.

https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/20/dolores_huerta
October 20, 2025 at 8:01 PM
#ResistanceRoots
#Voices4Victory

Cesar Chavez was born on this day in 1927 in Yuma, Ariz. A labor leader and civil rights activist, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association along with Dolores Huerta and Gilbert Padilla. The organization later became the United Farm Workers Union. /1
April 1, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Dolores Huerta is one of the most influential labor leaders of the 20th Century.

She witnessed firsthand how many farm workers in her community suffered from low wages and poor working conditions, so she co-founded United Farm Workers to fight for the rights of farm laborers.
March 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
LEGENDARY labor leader Dolores Huerta stopped by our visibility table!

Huerta co-founded @ufw.bsky.social led nationwide grape boycotts, strikes, and negotiations that resulted in famous contract wins. Her organizing led to legislation that gave farm workers the power to organize unions!
September 25, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America—which fights for the rights, safety, power and dignity of agricultural workers—was given the Lifetime Achievement Award at the AFT convention.
Dolores Huerta honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award
Dolores Huerta, the civil rights icon who co-founded the United Farm Workers of America—which fights for the rights, safety, power and dignity of agricultural workers—was given the Lifetime Achievemen...
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July 18, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Dolores Huerta has spent a lifetime reminding us of something simple. Democracy only survives when people fight for it.

Organizer. Labor leader. Civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers.

She gave the movement its rallying cry: Sí se puede.

#SheShed #V4V #WomensHistoryMonth
March 10, 2026 at 2:46 PM
#ResistanceRoots

Delores Huerta was born on this day in 1930 in Dawson, N.M. She is a labor leader and civil rights activist who has dedicated her life to fighting for migrant farmworkers. She co-founded the United Farm Workers and coined the rallying cry, “Sí, se puede” (“Yes, we can”). /1
April 11, 2026 at 12:34 AM
¡Ay, no!

Labor icon Dolores Huerta speaks out after reports Cesar Chavez abused her, groomed girls - San Antonio Express-News

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Dolores Huerta speaks out after reports César Chávez abused her, groomed girls — San Antonio Express-News
Dolores Huerta, César Chávez’s longtime organizing partner and co-founder of the United Farm Workers, said Chávez raped and pressured her into sex in the 1960s, breaking decades of silence as part of ...
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March 18, 2026 at 6:47 PM
Loved talking with Joy Huerta about being the family breadwinner at 18, being a late bloomer and the steep learning curve of co-composing Real Women Have Curves: The Musical. open.spotify.com/episode/4mTo...
How Joy Huerta Learned to Embrace Life's Curves
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March 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Cesar Chavez is accused of sexually assaulting fellow labor rights icon and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta.

Huerta discussed for the first time at length about her new public disclosures in an exclusive interview with Latino USA host Maria Hinojosa, who spoke with Democracy Now!
Labor Icon Dolores Huerta, 95, Reveals She, Too, Was Raped by Cesar Chavez; Speaks to Maria Hinojosa
A major New York Times investigation details the late co-founder of the United Farm Workers César Chávez’s sexual abuse of women and girls. The revelations about Chávez’s history of grooming and abuse...
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March 20, 2026 at 2:10 PM
Dolores Huerta, 96, was honored as the first recipient of the AFL-CIO Si Se Puede Award, named in her honor after the United Farm Workers slogan and union rally cry — meaning “Yes, we can!” — that Huerta created minnesotareformer.com/2026/06/08/d...
Dolores Huerta, famed farmworkers leader, honored with first ‘Si Se Puede’ award by AFL-CIO • Minnesota Reformer
Legendary labor leader Dolores Huerta, co-founder of the United Farm Workers, urged hundreds of union leaders gathered in Minneapolis on Monday to look beyond their differences and remain optimistic d...
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June 8, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Dolores Huerta is a legendary American labor leader & #civilrights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers with César Chávez in 1962.

She was born #OTD in 1930 & at 96 years old, she remains a powerhouse for #socialjustice, continuing her work through the Dolores Huerta Foundation. #HistSky
April 10, 2026 at 5:09 PM
#OTD, Dolores Huerta was born. A labor leader and co-founder of the National Farm Workers Association, she continues to advocate for workers, women and families at 96.
#TheMarchContinues
April 10, 2026 at 1:00 PM
Nurses condemn the ICE raids across Los Angeles today. It's appalling that ICE injured and detained @seiu.org California President David Huerta while he was exercising his First Amendment rights, and we demand his immediate release!

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Largest nurses union condemns immigration raids and joins labor in demanding release of SEIU California President David Huerta
National Nurses United, the largest union and professional association of registered nurses in the United States, today condemned the chaos and fear spread by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)...
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June 7, 2025 at 2:22 AM
UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta has done a remarkably brave thing at the age of 96 in coming out with the painful truth about Cesar Chavez. But her legacy must be so much more: now is the time to memorialize her as the true hero of the movement by replacing every public honoring of his name with hers
Dolores Huerta | Dolores Huerta Foundation
Explore the impactful journey of Dolores Huerta, a labor leader & civil rights advocate. Co-founder of the UFW, her foundation continues to empower communities.
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March 20, 2026 at 3:02 PM
UFW co-founder and labor activist Dolores Huerta went public Wednesday with her own account of being raped by Cesar Chavez, following a New York Times investigation that uncovered decades of sexual abuse by the civil rights icon.
Dolores Huerta worried her abuse by Cesar Chavez would hurt farmworker movement
The New York Times uncovered a pattern of abuse by the civil rights icon, including of young girls.
www.motherjones.com
March 19, 2026 at 3:00 PM
"Sí, se puede" (Spanish for "Yes, you can"), is the motto of the United Farm Workers of America, and has since been taken up by other activist groups.

UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta created the phrase in 1972 during César Chávez's 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona.

Sí, se puede!!
June 15, 2025 at 6:03 PM