LAUREN GILGER: Civil rights icon Dolores Huerta died yesterday at the age of 96. The co-founder of the United Farm Workers union has been fighting for the rights of workers in the fields, Latinos in America, and women’s rights for decades.
She was raised in California’s Central Valley, but her signature phrase, “¡Sí se puede!” was coined right here in Phoenix in 1972. She came back to the Valley 50 years later and visited the place where it happened, Santa Rita Hall. And she said she was met with prominent Latino leaders here trying to overturn a law that would prevent farmworkers from organizing.
DOLORES HUERTA: And they said to me, “No, aquí en Arizona no se puede.” My answer to them was, “¡Sí se puede en Arizona!”
LAUREN GILGER: It translates to, “Yes, it can be done,” and that slogan says a lot about her core belief that people, even marginalized people, could effect change…