Latino arts, history and culture
In 1966, Chicano activist Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales created a community based civil rights organization called the Crusade for Justice. Corky was disillusioned by traditional government agencies that … [Read more...]
March 27-31, 1969 PREAMBLE TO PLAN DE AZTLÁN PROGRAM OF EL PLAN DE AZTLÁN CONTEXT: In March of 1969, Chicano activist leader Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales convened a National Youth Liberation … [Read more...]
Latinos and Latinas today take gender equality as a given. But in the early days of the Chicano Movement for Civil Rights of the1960s and 1970s, Chicana women activists were often the unrecognized … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 2018 Gutiérrez on El Movimiento 3 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Forty years after the electoral victories of the all-Latino La Raza Unida political party, the founder of the group, … [Read more...]
PUERTO RICO'S DEBT CRISIS On June 28, 2015 the Governor of Puerto Rico, Alejandro García Padilla, announced that the $72 billion debt owed by the Commonwealth to its creditors was unpayable. … [Read more...]
In March of 1969, 15oo Mexican American youth rallied at Denver's Crusade for Justice under the leadership of Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzalez. They proclaimed a "Chicano" identity and , inspired by the need … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT RAMSEY MUÑIZ IN HIS OWN WORDS_1 from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Ramiro "Ramsey" Muñiz is a previously incarcerated Chicano activist who ran for Governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974. With … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Vahac Mardirosian from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In 1968, when Chicano students walked out of the four major East Los Angeles high school to protest the inferior education they were … [Read more...]
In March, 1968, Mexican American students from four high schools in East Los Angeles walked out in protest of the inferior education they were receiving. Parents, community activists and clergy met on … [Read more...]
Following the 1968 East Los Angeles high school walk-outs, thirteen individuals were indicted and charged with conspiracy to disturb the peace. Sal Castro, a teacher at Lincoln high school was one of … [Read more...]
Hope In Dark Times from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. What can we do to combat the onslaught of the Trump presidency? Fight back! … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Puerto Rico's Crisis One from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Facing massive unemployment and a poverty rate of 40%, Puerto Rico declared it could not pay its $72 billion debt in 2017. Juan … [Read more...]
The 1940s was a time when segregation still reigned in Texas and the South. In 1949, a baseball team made up of Mexican Americans kids from Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas, surprised sports fans … [Read more...]
In 1949, the Bowie Bears baseball team, comprised of Mexican American students at Bowie High School in El Paso, Texas won the statewide baseball championship. The players came from poor working … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 1968 L.A. Thirteen Arrested from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The 1968 East Los Angeles High School Walk-Outs are recognized as the impetus for the National Chicano Civil Rights … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 1968 ELA Walkouts Legacy from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. On March 1, 1968, thousands of students walked out of five predominantly Mexican American high schools in East Los Angeles. … [Read more...]
Robert Francis Kennedy was shot in the kitchen of the Ambassador Hotel shortly after midnight on June 5, 1968. The brother of President John F. Kennedy, Robert had just been nominated by the … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event 2017 DACA Rescinded from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. In September of 2017, President Obama rescinded the Deferred Action For Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program originally initiated by … [Read more...]
Latinopia Event Harvest of Empire from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. The illegal entry of Latinos to the United States has been characterized as a problem of their doing, "bad hombres" invading the … [Read more...]
The Chicano Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was in response to decades of discrimination and social inequality experienced by the Mexican American community in the Untied States. The … [Read more...]
In this third and final report on the 2009 reunion of Chicano Movement activists, convened in Dallas, Texas and attended by hundreds of activists, we hear from reunion organizer José Angel Gutíerrez … [Read more...]
