Dolores Huerta Speech

The session that I attended was Dolores Huerta speech, which was very interesting. Dolores Huerta was born on April 10, 1930, she is a labor leader and civil rights activist who, along with Cesar Chavez, co-founded the national Farmworkers association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers, immigrants, and women’s rights. She is truly a leader, working tirelessly to help the poor and women and children. She talks about war, genocide, Mass incarceration, and poverty. During her participation in non-violent protest she was arrested 22 times trying to make changes in society. Her main question was what can we do as people to solve things in the world? Putting political issues on politicians. She talks about how change comes from the bottom, people have to be responsible because at the end of the day no one is going to make changes for us we as people have to make them for ourselves.
She also talks about immigrants coming to the United States for better living because they are forced out of their countries where there are no jobs and that’s why they come to America. In the process of finding jobs, and creating a new life the economy is suffering. This brings me back to what we are talking about in class, which is immigrants coming to the U.S. for a better life and how people don’t want them here. People voted for proposition 187 in 1994, in California which is (also known as the Save Our State (SOS) initiative). This ballot was to establish a state-run citizenship screening system and prohibits illegal aliens from using health care, public education and other social services in the U.S. State of California. Huerta argues Why is there a problem to help these people out?, the United States is the wealthiest country, why can’t the U.S. supply free health care, education and other social services? She talks about how Cuba give all citizens education, and free health care.