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Could South Van Ness Avenue in San Francisco be renamed... Dolores Huerta Boulevard? Would you be in favor? ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ An online petition is now underway to rename the #SanFrancisco street to honor of #UnitedFarmWorkers labor activist Dolores Huerta. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ The petition has 1,100 signatures to date: ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ "Dolores Huerta is one of my all-time heroes, and it's exciting and fitting that people are raising the idea of renaming a major street running through the Latino Cultural District in her honor," says District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Story over at @kqed_arts.

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