On August 29, 2010 hundreds of Mexican Americans gathered in East Los Angeles to commemorate the 40th Anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium March against the War in Vietnam which originally took place in 1970. Latinopia was there to document this important event in Latino history and to ask people why they were marching.
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