"It is impossible to fully comprehend the world-changing effects of the UFW movement without considering how the fight for dignified wages and conditions in the fields punctured the political economy where the rancher was king."
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A massive protest by Mexican American high school students was a milestone in a movement for Chicano rights.
‘He told our stories,’ actor Edward James Olmos says of the Chicago writer of corridos some called the ‘Chicano Woody Guthrie.’
In 1970, tens of thousands of people in East Los Angeles marched for equality, identifying themselves as “Chicano.” Today, the Chicano Moratorium continues as young and old learn from one another.
Through her writings, Elizabeth Martínez inspired, provoked, educated, strategized, organized and built cross-racial and cross-ethnic alliances, all in pursuit of social justice.
In 1970 Chicanos protested how US casualties in Vietnam disproportionately consisted of young men from their communities in the Southwest. Now, they protest the killings of Latina and Latino soldiers.
Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's (AMLO) recent visit to the US stirred a great deal of media reaction in the US and México. To appreciate what AMLO and Morena are attempting to do, here are factors the Left, needs to consider.
In the postwar-Cold War period U.S. corporations used anti-communist hysteria to attack the labor movement. Salt of the Earth - tells the story of heroic Mexican American mineworkers, and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers.
Alatorre remained active even as she turned 90, participating in amnesty marches and holding citizenship classes. To the end, she insisted that activists forsake their differences as well as glory to work for el pueblo.
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