AUSTIN (KXAN)—Dolores Huerta, a labor and human rights activist, is in Austin this weekend, speaking out against Texas' controversial congressional redistricting maps.
Huerta, the 95-year-old co-founder of the United Farm Workers, will join Beto O'Rourke and Congressmen Greg Casar and Lloyd Doggett at a rally at the Capitol on Saturday.
It's a part of the nationwide movement called the National Day of Action.
"We're trying to save our democracy, and when people's representation is taken away from them, this is a very, very crucial moment," Huerta said.
Saturday's rally comes after more than 50 Texas House democrats left the state to break quorum, delaying a vote on the proposed congressional maps in Texas.
The maps move some Democratic incumbents out of their current districts and pla