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Tributes pour in for labor leader Dolores Huerta: ‘Fought for farm workers to the very end’

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Tributes pour in for labor leader Dolores Huerta: ‘Fought for farm workers to the very end’

Lawmakers, activists and union leaders across the US remember the co-founder of United Farm Workers unionFollowing the news that Dolores Huerta – the civil rights icon who popularized the rallying cry “Sí, se puede! – had died at the age of 96 on Wednesday, activists, lawmakers and civil rights leaders paid tribute to Hureta’s long and lasting legacy.In California – where Huerta helped found the United Farm Workers (UFW) union – her death was deeply felt. It was in California’s central valley that she laid the foundations for the United Farm Workers, and helped organize the 1965 Delano grape s

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