Pushkin. A good leader is someone who empowers other people. When I say the word organizing, it means not for you to take the power,

but to show other people how to take power

and show other people how to share that power.

And so I like to say that power is like love. The more you share it, the more it grows. And so power has to be shared. And that's basically what organizing is about. And that power should be directed towards social justice, income inequality, ending racism,

misogyny, homophobia, all of these things that we're fighting for right now.

That was the Laura swerta. I'm Sam Fregoso and this is talk easy.

Welcome to the show. Hey everyone. For more than half a century, Dolores Huerta has been a trailblazing

activist, a labor leader, a community organizer.

For those unfamiliar, in 1962, she and Cesar Chavez founded the United Farm Workers Union,

where she served as vice President for four decades.

But she didn't stop there.

Even at age 90, she's still in this fight through the Dolores-Werta Foundation. It's a group focused on community-based organizing,

advocating for education reform and structural changes

inside low-income communities.

She's fought for equality for the LGBT-Q community, the

feminist movement alongside Gloria Steinem, and for racial justice with Angela Davis.

She is also the originator of the phrase,

if we're, yes we can, which President Obama would later use in his 2008 campaign.

In fact, it was Obama in 2012 who would eventually award Dolores the Presidential

Medal of Freedom. The prize is said to be the highest civilian honor in the United States. Of course this is an

abridged biography. We get into more of her story in this episode you're

about to hear. But before we do that, Dolores is an icon within our

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