Civil rights activist, Dolores Huerta, among several arrested during protest in Fresno

[revmclaren]

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Eight people were handcuffed and taken to jail following a peaceful but very vocal protest inside the Fresno County Hall of Records Tuesday.

Wearing purple shirts, protesters filled the hallway outside of the Board of Supervisors Chambers just as deputies tried to get the large crowd to disperse.

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The County Supervisors did not address the protesters since negotiations remain ongoing, but well known Civil Rights leader Delores Huerta was among the group of eight that was arrested and released.

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The reason I decided to get arrested because I am angry that the way the home care providers are treated," said Huerta. "They have gone over a decade without having a wage increase."


https://abc30.com/politics/civil-rights-activist-among-several-arrested-during-protest-in-fresno/5481190/



ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

[struggle4progress]

1. Huerta, 89, arrested again

By COLLEEN SHALBYSTAFF WRITER
AUG. 20, 2019 2:49 PM

Civil rights activist and labor leader Dolores Huerta was arrested Tuesday in Fresno while protesting with union representatives seeking a living wage for home care workers.

Hundreds of demonstrators with the Service Employees International Union, many of whom have gone without a pay increase for more than 10 years, gathered outside the Fresno County Board of Supervisors meeting. The SEIU represents home care, skilled nursing facility and assisted living center workers ...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2019-08-20/dolores-huerta-arrested-during-seiu-protest

[sheshe2]

2. I would post an awesome link.

I can't because it was 2016.

K&R!

[revmclaren]

3. Yup...

ONLY!!! 2019 and beyond.

[sheshe2]

4. Ummm.

Squash the evidence.

[George II]

5. Dolores stood up to Susan Sarandon in the past, and she'll do it again early next year....

....when her candidate, Kamala Harris, is berated by her.

I stand with Dolores Huerta and any candidate she supports. She is an amazing woman with an amazing history.

[sheshe2]

6. I posted an awesome vid elsewhere.

It shows the ugliness of the caucus. She was attacked.

[George II]

7. For someone to do that to an 86 year old woman gives us a great insight in that one's character.

[sheshe2]

9. She is a shero to me.

86 years old. A billionaire screamed in her face. A tiny woman that has...

Fernández Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farmworkers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers (UFW). Huerta helped organize the Delano grape strike in 1965 in California and was the lead negotiator in the workers' contract that was created after the strike.[1]


Huerta has received numerous awards for her community service and advocacy for workers', immigrants', and women's rights, including the Eugene V. Debs Foundation Outstanding American Award, the United States Presidential Eleanor Roosevelt Award for Human Rights[2] and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.[3] She was the first Latina inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame, in 1993.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta

[George II]

10. She is an American hero, and an icon of the American labor movement.....

To think that a surrogate of a so-called advocate of American workers would treat her the way she was treated is unconscionable.

But, "nevertheless she persisted", she prevailed, and she WON!

[sheshe2]

11. Women are good at that George,

We persist.

[Hortensis]

15. +100, George. Actions speak, and not just Dolores Huerta's.

Also the actions of people who claim to be for "the people" but engage in toxic partisan crusades against genuine labor and civil rights activists because they support a different candidate.

[betsuni]

14. +1

[still_one]

12. I remember that, and the bulling done

[Cha]

8. Mahalo, rev!

[betsuni]

13. K&R