We stand with Dolores Huerta.
Dolores has been a member of the Feminist Majority Foundation board and a close friend for decades. We have witnessed her extraordinary courage and moral clarity firsthand — which is precisely why we are not surprised she is speaking now, and not surprised she bore this alone for so long. Both facts are consistent with who she is.
The silence she kept for 60 years was not weakness. It was the impossible weight that survivors of sexual violence are forced to carry — often to protect others, often at profound cost to themselves. That she carried it while simultaneously building one of the most important labor movements in American history makes her courage almost incomprehensible.
We also believe the women and girls who were harmed by Cesar Chavez. They deserve to be heard.
What Dolores helped create — better working conditions and dignity for millions of farmworkers — stands on its own. One man’s actions cannot diminish what thousands of people built together.
We will continue to stand with Dolores, with all survivors, and with the movements she has devoted her life to.