Lizz Walker

Jersey Girl in The Land of Enchantment

[Knicks Media 🏆 @NYKnicks_Media]

RT if you never panicked when the Knicks dropped to 0-3 and knew they’d be just fine.

[ICE T @FINALLEVEL]

Final question on tonight’s JEOPARDY ‘Life Achievement Unlocked’

[Joe Biden @JoeBiden]

Jill and I are mourning the loss of our friend Dolores Huerta, a giant of the American labor and civil rights movements.

For more than seventy years, Dolores fought for working people. She organized in the fields, she walked the picket lines, and she sat across the table from people who never expected to have to negotiate with her.
I say often the middle class built this country, and unions built the middle class. Dolores understood that in her bones. Well into her nineties she was still traveling, marching and organizing for working families, for women, for immigrants, for LGBTQ Americans.

Even this year, she showed a different kind of courage, telling a painful truth she had carried for sixty years so others would not have to carry theirs alone.

America is fairer and more decent because of Dolores Huerta. Jill and I send our love to her entire family, and to everyone who found their voice because of her.

May God bless Dolores Huerta. Sí, se puede.

[Robert King @RKing618]

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[Rep. Melanie Stansbury @Rep_Stansbury]

Today, we gathered in the Old Town Plaza with state and local leaders to honor New Mexico’s own icon, mother of the movement, and a daughter of New Mexico: Dolores Huerta.

May we honor her legacy with a lifetime of action fighting for labor, equal rights, and a better tomorrow for all people. ❤️

[Luis A. Miranda, Jr. @Vegalteno]

She taught us to say, “Sí, se puede.” Then she spent a lifetime making it true. Gracias, @DoloresHuerta . Rest in power.

[Evan @daviddunn177]

I’ve waited ten years for someone to say this about Donald Trump.

[Mayor Tim Keller @MayorKeller]

We gathered at Old Town Plaza to remember Dolores Huerta and the life she dedicated to fighting for dignity, fairness and a better future for working families.
Through a small ceremony and an ofrenda, we honored her legacy and the countless lives she touched.

[Lizz Walker @_LizzWalker]

@MsKevin504 End of an era and the only one with sense at that desk who could rein in the others. Next season is going to be a mess
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[Senate Judiciary Democrats 🇺🇸 @JudiciaryDems]

BREAKING: A 43-year-old has died in ICE custody, marking 29 deaths in detention this year.

[Lizz Walker @_LizzWalker]

@Jamey_Giddens @oconnordanj Can’t wait for the intrigue and messiness lol

[Mayor Tim Keller @MayorKeller]

For Albuquerque, Dolores was never just a figure from the history books; she kept coming back to her home state, to stand with workers, families, and advocates in our community.

Dolores will be deeply missed, but her spirit lives on in the words she gave us: ¡Sí, se puede!”

[Headquarters @HQNewsNow]

Barack Obama awards Dolores Huerta the Presidential Medal of Freedom, 2012:

"Without any negotiating experience, Dolores helped lead a worldwide grape boycott that forced growers to agree to some of the country's first farm worker contracts, and ever since, she has fought to give more people a seat at the table... And on a personal note, Dolores was very gracious when I told her I had stolen her slogan, 'sí, se puede,' or 'yes, we can.' Knowing her, I'm pleased that she let me off easy, because Dolores does not play."

[Chef José Andrés 🕊️🥘🍳 @chefjoseandres]

The world has lost one of its greatest champions for justice and civil rights for farmworkers…of all working people.

I have always believed food can change the world. Dolores Huerta showed us that change begins with the people who grow and harvest our food.

I will honor her legacy by continuing to fight for a world where the people who feed America…and the world...can also feed themselves and their families, with dignity.

Dolores taught us: Si, se puede…Together, yes, we can.

Rest in peace, Dolores. Si, se pudo! Pero la lucha sigue…your fight lives on in all of us.

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

I grew up in a world Dolores Huerta helped make. Every time a worker in this city organizes for a fair wage, every time a tenant, delivery worker, or a nanny stands up and demands better, they join a tradition she forged.

She led without asking permission. She organized farmworkers when the country looked away, took the grape boycott to every corner of America, and won protections that changed millions of lives. Her work started in California’s fields, but it was never only for California. Families in New York, in Texas, and in the Midwest followed in her footsteps and learned from her example, without ever meeting her.

Her bravery and fight for justice continued until the very end of her life, when she came forward to share the truth about what she had survived -- even though silence would have been easier.

She taught us that sí se puede and lived it every day.

New York mourns Dolores Huerta. Let us honor her by continuing the work.

[Albuquerque Journal @ABQJournal]

Tributes pour in for Dolores Huerta, the New Mexico-born farmworker and civil rights leader who died at 96. https://t.co/eZufOtLRZ9

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Dolores Huerta was a hero of mine.

When she co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962, people thought Dolores was crazy. “How are you going to organize farm workers,” she remembered being asked. "They are poor, powerless immigrants.” But that’s exactly what she did, helping thousands of migrant laborers working in brutal conditions make their voices heard, and demand something better.

Dolores spent the rest of her life fighting for marginalized communities, even as she herself faced sexism and abuse — including, as she revealed earlier this year, from Cesar Chavez and others within her own movement. She also came up with a pretty good slogan, “Si, se puede” — Yes, we can — that I too often get credit for. But as usual, Dolores got there first.

Michelle and I are thinking of Dolores’s family, the people whose lives she changed, and everyone who drew inspiration from her example.

Photo credit: National Archives, Obama Presidential Library

[Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham @GovMLG]

Dolores Huerta fought for working people everywhere, but she was a New Mexican first. Born in Dawson, she never stopped coming home to New Mexico, and she never stopped pushing us to do more for the people who care for our children and keep this state running.

Dolores was a force of nature. She gave farm workers a voice, and she gave all of us ‘Sí, se puede.’ I was lucky to call her a friend, and I’ll never forget the day she came to our office to accept the state’s thanks for her extraordinary service. In 2023, I was proud to sign the law making April 10 Dolores Huerta Day in New Mexico, so every generation here will know her name.

“Well into her nineties, she spoke hard truths regardless of the personal costs. She showed up for people who were at risk, taken advantage of, underserved and unheard until the day she died.

My heart is with her family and the Dolores Huerta Foundation. Rest in power, Dolores.

[New Mexico United @NewMexicoUTD]

We honor the legacy of Dolores Huerta, a proud New Mexican and lifelong advocate for farmworkers, civil rights, and working families. Rest in peace, Dolores. Sí, se puede 💛🖤

[Antoine Allen @AntoineSpeaker]

Why is there a lack of coverage about this?