2-25-08 @4:49 PM
What Chicano Movement? How many youth consider themselves as Chicanos these days. Where is our organizational infrastructure and political machine?
What Chicano Movement? How many youth consider themselves as Chicanos these days. Where is our organizational infrastructure and political machine?
We need to expand our revolutionary consciousness and warmly embrace all of La Raza, Mexicanos, Puerto Ricans, Cubanos, Mexican-Americans, indigenous natives and all with whom we can unite and work together towards humane liberation for all, including our African-American brothers and sisters! REGISTER AND VOTE FOR OBAMA!
In particular we should stragetize in terms of a Latino Liberation Movement, then globally in general terms of a worldwide socialsit oriented revolutionary movement.
The old Chicano cultural nationalist nostalgia for the old days will not suffice in the post-911 new millenium. I was once a Brown Beret bodyguard with others for Corky once on a West Coast Tour he did when he crashed over his pretty cousin's place and I sat in an old chair in the front room all night and rapped with other Berets. At the time, Corky was promoting La Raza Unida Party. He talked about the concept of common denominators among La Raza and other pertinent matters.
The old Chicano cultural nationalist nostalgia for the old days will not suffice in the post-911 new millenium. I was once a Brown Beret bodyguard with others for Corky once on a West Coast Tour he did when he crashed over his pretty cousin's place and I sat in an old chair in the front room all night and rapped with other Berets. At the time, Corky was promoting La Raza Unida Party. He talked about the concept of common denominators among La Raza and other pertinent matters.
Vanguard leadership must unite with all repressed peoples of all lands in our common struggle against the forces of evil worldiwde. At the same time, all of us must shed like dead skin any remnants of divisive racism and narrow cultural nationalism. We must play the hand we got with the cards we are holding, we must see the whole board in the chess game of life and not focus on only a part of the whole big picture.
Any independent third party right now will impact more on the local level than on the national level. Are we registering people to vote? Are we promoting community literacy? Are we addressing our many medical issues? Are we creating new cadres?
We must comprehend the existing environmental conditions in our connected reality. No one has the corner on truth, but not all opinions are of equal value. Nostalgia and memories will not feed the stomachs of our hungry people!!!
"The revolutionary's role is to libereate, and be liberated, with the people---not to win them over... The starting point for organizing the program content of education or political action must be the present existentail, concrete sitaution, reflecting the aspirations of the people." ~Paulo Freire, PEDAGOGY OF THE OPPRESSED, Pg 95
Yes, we have much to learn from the history of the Chicano Movement and now dead leaders have helped to pave the way, but we must seize the time with fresh resolve and work from the HERE NOW of our present situation. Learn from the past, but do not stay stuck on it!
We must never tire in learning about the strategy and tactics of total combat, that is, all angles, all lines, all approaches, all trajectories.
Do what works best in your own particular situation and I will do what I can in mine. Venceremos Unidos! +Peta-de-Aztlan+
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calabresina999 <calabresina999@yahoo.com> wrote:
Ernie:
I agree completely with your statement. The reason I joined this
yahoo group is because I want to help out the Chicano leaders of
yesterday and of today, and it does get distracting when we focus on
topics not related to the Chicano Movement. If this is a Chicana/o
group, it should be about Chicana/o issues and concerns not
presidential campaigning.
Calabresina
--- In NetworkAztlan_Action@yahoogrou , Ernesto Nevarezps.com
<portofaztlan@...> wrote:
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> These were the leaders that have inspired our entire movement.
Neither the Borats nor the Billarys are in the same league. I wish
everyone in this yahoogroup that wants to promote their
institutional candidate do so in the proper venue. I'm not the
moderator but would suggest that any political promotion be in
context of the Chicano Movement. Otherwise, it is just spam to me.
But "Los Grandes" will guide us foverer.......
Solidarity,
ernie
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