National Portrait Gallery Honors Dolores Huerta

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2. Where she's been; who she's known; what she's done- and she's still doing it.

There are some people, like John Lewis and Dolores Huerta, who fill me with awe and respect. Some are with us.
Some have left us.

Dolores Huerta, Bobby Kennedy, Cesar Chavez






From Socialism.com: http://www.socialism.com/drupal-6.8/articles/huerta-brutal-cops-and-ufw


Huerta, brutal cops, and the UFW

Moises Montoya
January 1989

On September 14, the Tactical Squad of the San Francisco Police Department attacked an anti-Bush demonstration. They beat several demonstrators severely, including United Farm Workers Union Vice President Dolores Huerta, who suffered broken ribs and a ruptured spleen.

Such brutality is an increasingly typical police response to peaceful protests nationwide. Why? The economy is floundering: times are bad and getting worse. The government has walked out on the people. Little by little, everyone feels their safety nets being yanked away: jobs, homes, health care, social security, education… People are angry and getting restless—and the police are there to keep “order.”

It’s not that people in power are blind to the growing misery. Rather, they understand that if people win demands for equality, a fair share, an end to the status quo, those now at the top are out of business. They pay the police, and buy politicians, to maintain things as they are.