Dolores Huerta
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta joined Filipino leader Larry Itliong in the Delano grape strike in 1965, managing boycott campaigns on the east coast and negotiating with the grape companies to end the strike. Some credit her with inventing the UFW slogan "sí se puede".
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Jul 2, 2026
Lean Left
Criticized Trump's remarks about Mexicans, saying he 'does not know history,' and called on Latino voters to push for change.
Huerta's stature as a lifelong labor activist amplifies the left's critique of Trump's xenophobia and highlights the need for Latino organizing power.
Jul 1, 2026
Lean Left
The labor activist criticized Trump's disparaging remarks about Mexicans, saying he does not know history.
Her activism is respected as a link to the farmworker movement and a moral counterweight to Trump's nativist rhetoric.