Austin (KXAN)-one of the most influential voices in society of Spanish origin-and the creator of the crowd now, “Si SE PUEDE”-continues to pay for rights, something you have done for more than six decades.
The Labor and Civil Rights Party activist Dolores Hyrta recently stopped in Austin to attend a gathering in the Capitol, where she led a chanting group, “SI SE PUEDE! You can do this!”
It is a simple phrase that has become an invitation to work in gatherings, protests and political stages all over the world. Huerta is attributed to a crowd cry.
“Cesar Chavez was only 25 days of water, and in Arizona, they approved the law that farmer workers, if they were hitting, could go to prison,” said Herthaa. “When I went to some professionals in the area to ask them to please us, they said …” No, in Arizona, you cannot do this. “They were,” Yes, we can.
Jala Washington sat from KXAN with her, while thinking about how a lot of her active work today works with the same things that have fought throughout those past years.
It helped its logo lead to action, and expand farm workers rights. Years later, Barack Obama used the slogan to feed his presidential campaign.
“When I met the president, he said:” I stole your logo. ”
It can be said that Hueta, 95, has a lot of fire now as she did 70 years ago, when she started her work as active.
The co-founder of the first labor union for workers in the country-Huerta, along with Cesar Chavez, called for fair wages and better working conditions for farmers.
Hyrta is widely known as a influential leader of the Chicano movement. It is a movement that needed inequality at all levels of society, including the rights of race, employment and women. Some of these are the same rights that many people feel to threaten today.
In August, Herta joined a gathering in Texas in Capitol, and talked about the re -division of Texas, which she said would be unfair to voters from colors and minorities.
“Well, it’s a great feeling,” said Hoerta.
The governor of the state, Greg Abbott, signed the maps of the new Congress in Texas in the law in late August, saying that it “guarantees a more just representation at the United States Conference of Texas.” Maps are usually redrawn after the number of the US census, and the last time was made in Texas in 2021. The timing in the middle of the decade and before the middle of next year led to months of discussion and the setting of the quorum from Democrats in the House of Representatives.
She thinks that many of what Hyrta fought, as you think, is a battle that is still happening today.
“It was a major struggle for people, and people to get the right to vote to start,” Hyrta said.
Hyrta said she remembered the moment she felt summoned to do the active work.
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Society organizer Farid Ross, Father (1910 – 1992) stands next to Dolores Heareta, labor activist and co -founder of United American farmer workers (UFW) at a press conference in Levingstone, California, California 1975. -
A picture of the American labor activist The United Farm Corner of America (UFW) Dolores Hueta at UFW (La Paz), Kene, California, in the mid -seventies. (Photo by Cathy Murphy/Getty Erch)
“I was in a home meeting with a large organizer, Farid Ross, the father … then again showed us newspaper scraps how people brought clinics, bought sidewalks and actually sent police officers to prison for the Mexican youth.” “And I thought, I want to belong to that organization. Anyone who can make – has this type of strength to stop discrimination, then this was a moment aha.”
Hurta would lead to a life of activity. Regardless of the place where anyone stands on the political spectrum, Huerta hopes what people take away from them and her story:
“We do not have the luxury of fatigue.” “Each of us must become patriotic.”