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Honoring the legacy of Dolores Huerta and recognizing April 10, 2026, as Dolores Huerta Day in Saint Paul.
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WHEREAS, Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta was born on April 10, 1930, in Dawson, New Mexico, the daughter of a farm worker and miner father who served in the New Mexico state legislature, and a mother whose entrepreneurial spirit, compassion for the poor, and community-mindedness were formative influences on her daughter's life; and
WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta came of age in Stockton, California, in the heart of the Central Valley's agricultural economy, where she witnessed firsthand the poverty, exploitation, and systemic exclusion endured by farmworking families and resolved that organizing those workers was the most powerful way she could serve them; and
?WHEREAS, beginning in 1955, Dolores Huerta co-founded the Stockton chapter of the Community Service Organization, leading voter registration drives and civic engagement efforts for the Latinx community at a time when those communities were systematically shut out of political power; and
WHEREAS, in 1962, Dolores Huerta co-founded the National Farm Workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers of America (UFW), one of the most consequential labor organizations in American history, dedicated to securing fair wages, safe conditions, and basic dignity for the workers whose labor feeds the nation; and
WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta's years of boycott organizing, including national boycotts, helped produce the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act of 1975, the first state law in the nation to recognize farm workers' right to collective bargaining, a landmark achievement of the labor movement achieved through community power, not charity; and
WHEREAS, Dolores Huerta gave the labor movement one of its most enduring rallying cries, “Sí, se puede”, a declaration of collective power widely credited to her, that has echoed from the fields of California to the streets of Saint Paul, fueli...
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