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Bakersfield, California – In a nondescript car park, a memorial with orange marigolds and prayer candles has been erected in honour of recently deceased labour organiser and civil rights leader Dolores Huerta. Huerta was a well-known figure in California’s Central Valley, where she helped found the United Farm Workers union (UFW) and win better wages and working conditions for migrant and Latino labourers, who were vital to the state’s huge agricultural sector in the 1960s and 1970s. The term “si, se puede”, coined by Huerta and translating to “yes, it can be done”, has also been placed on the display of a local theatre in her honour.