LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE PORVENIR MASSACRE
LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PORVENIR MASSACRE One of the most horrendous of extra-judicial killings took place on January 28, 1918 in the outskirts of the village of Porvenir, Texas, … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1918 PORVENIR MASSACRE
On the evening of January 28, 1918, a dozen Texas rangers, accompanied by eight U.S. Calvary soldiers and some Anglo American ranch hands descended on the village of Porvenir,Texas, just north of the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT PROFILE THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA
THE PUERTO RICAN DIASPORA FACTS AND ROOTS Puerto Rico is an unincorporated territory of the United States of America, defined as property but not part of that nation. As such Puerto Ricans … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA HERO DR. FRANK MEZA
On July 4, 2019 Dr. Frank Meza, a sports enthusiast and respected leader in the medical community, passed away. He had attended Cal State Northridge, UCLA and UC Davis where he earned his medical … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT RAUL RUÍZ ON THE 1968 HIGH SCHOOL WALKOUTS
Political activist, photo-journalist and educator Dr. Raul Ruíz passed away on June 13, 2019. He is perhaps best remembered for the photos he took of the police assault on the Silver Dollar Bar on … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2019 JOSÉ ÁNGEL GUTIÉRREZ ON THE EAGLE HAS EYES
José Ángel Gutiérrez is an author, scholar and political activist best known as the founder of the La Raza Unida political party. His most recent book is The Eagle Has Eyes: The FBI Surveillance of … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENTS 1970 EL RIO PARK
In 1970, the Mexican American communities of Tucson, Arizona, came together to fight for a public park for the children of two of the poorest barrios in the city. What began as a struggle for a local … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA DOCUMENT APPU PROFESSORS LETTER TO HON. RAUL GRIJALVA
CONTEXT: In 2016 Congress created PROMESA (Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act) and appointed a seven-member commission (known in Puerto Rico as La Junta) to administer a … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 CRUSADE FOR JUSTICE
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...]
LATINOPIA DOCUMENT EL PLAN DE SANTA BÁRBARA
CONTEXT: By the mid-1960s unrest was building in the Mexican American communities throughout the United States in response to decades of discrimination and abuse. The high school walk-outs in East … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA DOCUMENT – 1969 EL PLAN DE AZTLÁN
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1969 DENVER WOMEN’S CAUCUS
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
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 2015 PUERTO RICO DEBT CRISIS
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1969 EL PLAN DE SANTA BÁRBARA
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 BIOGRAPHY RAMIRO “RAMSEY” MUÑIZ
Ramiro Muñiz Ramiro Muñiz, known as Ramsey Muñiz (born December 13, 1942), is a formerly incarcerated Hispanic political activist who ran for governor of Texas in 1972 and 1974, each time as the … [Read more...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1972 RAMSEY MUÑIZ IN HIS OWN WORDS
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
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 SAL CASTRO & THE E.I.C.C.
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...]
LATINOPIA EVENT 1968 L.A. SCHOOL BOARD SIT-IN
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...]
BIOGRAPHY – DOLORES HUERTA
DOLORES HUERTA, LABOR ORGANIZER Dolores Clara Fernandez was born in the Northern New Mexico mining town of Dawson, on April 10, 1930. Her father, Juan Fernandez, was a miner and occasional farm … [Read more...]