Sí, se puede, Dolores Huerta [View all]

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President Barack Obama awards civil rights worker Dolores Huerta a 2012 Presidential Medal of Freedom during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, May 29, 2012.










PRESIDENT OBAMA:

"Without any negotiating experience, Dolores helped lead a worldwide grape boycott that forced growers to agree to some of the country's first farm worker contracts. And ever since, she has fought to give more people a seat at the table."

Sí, se puede (or, roughly, in English) "Yes, we can," or "Yes, it can be done," is the motto of the United Farm Workers. In 1972, during Cesar Chavez's 24 day fast in Phoenix, Arizona, he and UFW's co-founder, Dolores Huerta, came up with the slogan.