{"id":1629,"date":"2026-11-02T20:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T20:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1629"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:00:26","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T20:00:26","slug":"30-26-dolores-huerta-yes-she-did","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/?p=1629","title":{"rendered":"#30-26 Dolores Huerta &#8211; Yes, she did!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Dolores Huerta passed away at age 96.&nbsp; A lifelong activist, she had recently traveled from California to Texas, to attend the Democratic Convention and to urge workers to vote.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When she was merely 82, she addressed the US National Women&#8217;s Studies Association.&nbsp; Melinda Tuhus recorded that speech for WINGS in 2012.&nbsp; &nbsp;The month after she gave that speech, Huerta accepted the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. He acknowledged having stolen his slogan &#8220;Yes, we can!&#8221; from her; she taught the crowd her Spanish version: &#8220;Si, se puede!&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-30-26Dolores%20Huerta-28_50-128kbps.mp3\">https:\/\/www.radio4all.net\/files\/wingsradionews@gmail.com\/WINGS-30-26Dolores%20Huerta-28_50-128kbps.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 28, 2026, Dolores Huerta passed away at age 96.&nbsp; A lifelong activist, she had recently traveled from<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1631,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","video_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,20,4,286,157,38,19,39,27,165,3,176,36,488,42,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-activism","category-environment-agriculture","category-all","category-capitalism","category-civil-liberties","category-elections","category-environment","category-feminism","category-health","category-labor","category-latest","category-occupational-health-and-safety","category-politics","category-racism-2","category-regional","category-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1629"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1632,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1629\/revisions\/1632"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1631"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wingsradio.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}