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"Sí, se puede" (Spanish for "Yes, you can"; [1] pronounced [ˈsi se ˈpwe.ðe]) is the motto of the United Farm Workers of America, and has since been taken up by other activist groups. UFW co-founder Dolores Huerta created the phrase in 1972 during César Chávez's 25-day fast in Phoenix, Arizona. [1] [2] [3] "Sí se puede" has long been a ...
Dolores Huerta (born April 10, 1930) is an American labor leader and feminist activist. After working for several years with the Community Service Organization (CSO), she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA) with fellow activists Cesar Chavez and Gilbert Padilla, which eventually merged with the Agricultural Workers Organizing Committee (AWOC) to become the United Farm ...
On April 23, 2010, Arizona Governor Jan Brewer signed into law SB 1070, which supporters dubbed the "Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act". [1] It made it a state misdemeanor for an illegal immigrant to be in Arizona without carrying registration documents required by federal law; authorized state and local law enforcement of federal immigration laws; and penalized those ...
This is where she covered social justice and immigration issues with a focus on how these factors impact children who immigrate to The United States from Central America. 16. Isabel Allende
The Trump administration has moved with lightning speed to roll out the president’s immigration agenda, effectively closing off the US southern border to asylum seekers, severely limiting who ...
New Girl Scout troops are popping up in the Valley, led by Spanish-speaking mothers and their daughters.
Sí se puede (Spanish for 'Yes, we can') – motto of the United Farm Workers; used in English and Spanish by the Barack Obama 2008 presidential campaign Stop the boats – an anti-immigration slogan used by Tony Abbott during the 2013 Australian federal election , and later during the premiership of Rishi Sunak against English Channel migrant ...
The Trump administration’s weekend immigration sweeps that included nearly 1,000 arrests and have chilled many immigrant communities were followed by another blitz: A barrage of video and photos ...