Note to editors and reporters:
Journalists are invited to attend the panel. To arrange interviews at
other times or for other details, contact Cal State L.A.’s Department of
Chicano Studies at (323) 343-2190 or Professor Dionne Espinoza at (323)
343-5348 or
despino@calstatela.edu.
40 years later, five activists to look back at
the 1969 “Chicano Movement Rising”;
panel to share tactics, triumphs, updates
at Cal State L.A. Oct. 14
In L.A., the year brought Chicano moratorium, Barrio Free Clinic, ‘war on disease,’
opposition to war in Vietnam, questions for the church
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Los Angeles,
CA –
Four decades after the Chicano moratorium and related events, five
activists who were there will explore what it all took and what
differences it made in “The Chicano Movement Rising” panel
discussion Wednesday, Oct. 14, at Cal State L.A.
The free event—to be held 6:30-9 p.m., in the University-Student
Union, Los Angeles Room A—will
include social activists/community organizers Gloria Arellanes, Joe Razo,
Rosalío Muñoz, David Sanchez, and Jesus Salvador Treviño. Topics will
include the 40th anniversary of Muñoz refusing induction to the draft,
the Brown Berets fighting a “war on disease” through the Barrio Free
Clinic, the first Chicano Moratorium, and the Christmas Eve protest by
Católicos Por La Raza. The panel will also discuss the activists’
struggles and the tactics that helped them successfully mobilize the
Chicano population
of East Los Angeles. Treviño will serve as the moderator.
According to Dionne Espinosa, professor of Chicano studies at Cal
State L.A., “The Fall of 1969 marked a key moment in the development of
the Chicano movement in Los Angeles.
Activists
turned a critical eye toward the War in Vietnam as they saw the rising
tide of deaths of young men from the
community; and they also questioned a Catholic Church that they felt
should take a stand against poverty in the community.”
In his March 1970 article “Chicanos vs. Traditionalists,” Los Angeles
Times columnist Ruben Salazar wrote, “The Chicano activists are
trying to rid themselves of their masks and to open themselves to
themselves and to others. It is significant that in doing this they
should pick as a means the Vietnam War and the Catholic Church.”
This Oct. 14 event is sponsored by Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de
Aztlan (MECHA de CSULA), the University’s Department
of Chicano Studies, and Union Salvadoreña de Estudiantes Universitarios
(USEU).
Permit dispenser parking is available in Parking Structure C,
across from the Luckman Fine Arts Complex. For directions or campus map,
go to
http://www.calstatela.edu/univ/maps/cslamap.php. For other
information, call the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal State L.A. at
(323) 343-2190.
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Media
What:
“The Chicano Movement Rising” – Panel on the 1969 Chicano Movement in
Los Angeles
Where:
Los Angeles Room A, University-Student Union, Cal State L.A. campus
When:
Wednesday, Oct. 14, 2009, 6:30 – 9 p.m.
Info:
Free to the public.
Contact:
Cal State L.A.’s Chicano Studies department, (323) 343-2190
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