Labor leader Delores Huerta, now 95, urges audience to tap into ‘people power’

Dolores Huerta set out to share a message of hope in San Diego: “People power,” she said, will triumph.

The living labor legend delivered those words to hundreds of students and members of the public who gathered to hear her speak at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace and Justice on Wednesday evening.

“Something good will be coming out of this dark period,” she said. “But we are the ones that have to start forming those policies that we want, to make sure that when we come out of this era that we’re in right now, we’re going to come out a lot stronger.”

Sharing lessons from her decades of labor organizing, the 95-year-old Huerta said peace can be achieved within the lifetime of today’s young people.

The key, she said, is to organize, protest and vote.

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