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Lawmakers, activists and union leaders across the US remember the co-founder of United Farm Workers union

Chavez was the public figure, but Huerta and farmworkers across America, including in Illinois, carried the farm labor movement. Metro Chicago has more agricultural workers than other parts of Illinois — they tend nurseries and landscape or mow lawns

Dolores Huerta has long been a champion for women using their voices to speak truth to power. But her silence on Cesar Chavez is a reminder of the stakes for women in movements.

With the horror of the revelations of his sexual predations, an already tarnished icon collapses.

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“I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences,” she wrote.

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Huerta’s approach to activism is to take it day by day, victory by victory. Building a movement is the work of a lifetime; it takes time, commitment and hope.