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Dolores Huerta

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These are images of various protests from around the world.
What similarities and differences do you notice among these images? Based on what you have
read, how might Huerta respond to these images?

A lot of the work that was done was done by praying with your feet and your hands and your
picketing. What is picketing? That is just whole body. Because it is like a petition you are
marching, [it’s] just walking up and down in out in front of the store and you are asking,
front of a store asking people not to buy grapes trying to reach that man’s conscience, or the
or not to buy lettuce, or not to — whatever it is people’s conscience, trying to give them a
we happen to be boycotting. Now that doesn’t message and you do this by displaying your
seem like that could be powerful, but it is! It’s whole body and that is the thing that counts the
just amazing how powerful it is. Just walking up most. It’s your own body, your own person; this
and down in front of a store. I always relate is what counts more than anything else.
picketing to praying in a way; when people pray Probably some of you think to yourselves that
together they say that it has a lot of effect, except I’m not a Martin Luther King, I’m not a Cesar
you are not praying just by yourself, you are Chavez, I’m just plain old me, and what can plain
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