“Dolores, We’re with You”: Tucson Mayor and Farmworker Families Share Grief, Hope in the Movement

“Dolores, we’re with you”: Tucson mayor and farmworker families share grief, hope in the movement

Tucson Mayor Regina Romero remembers getting the phone call from the woman she’s looked up to since she was a little girl. She listens with her husband Ruben Reyes. Their friend and mentor, Dolores Huerta, needs to tell them what is coming, needs to say something that will change everything. “It was such a gut punch,” Romero says, quietly. “We couldn’t say much. We could just say, ‘Dolores, we’re with you.’” Huerta is a Mexican American feminist…

Dolores Huerta’s allegations against Cesar Chavez and the political bankruptcy of the United Farm Workers

Revelations of abuse and rape expose the UFW’s decay, cynically weaponized by fascistic forces to intensify attacks on farmworkers and immigrant communities nationwide.

Dolores Huerta: “I am a survivor”

(Editor’s note: The following is a statement released by Dolores Huerta, the iconic labor leader and civil rights activist who co-founded the United Farm Workers union, in response to the mid-March New York Times article on allegations of Cesar Chavez’s history of sexual abuse.) I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my enti…