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"MECHA is a student organization with no formal central body, it has no national office, it has no budget, and it has no constitution."

Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano/a de Aztlán

de UC Santa Barbara

CONSTITUTION

http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/mecha/mission.html

"University Northridge MECHA has formed coalitions with various groups."

When advantageous, political coalitions and alliances with non-Chicano groups may be considered. A

careful analysis must precede the decision to enter into a coalition. One significant factor is the community's

attitude toward coalitions. Another factor is the formulation of a mechanism for the distribution of power that

ensures maximum participation in decision making: i.e., formulation of demands and planning of tactics. When no

longer politically advantageous, Chicano participation in the coalition ends. From:El Plan de Santa Barbara http://orgs.sa.ucsb.edu/mecha/EPSB.html

1 posted on 08/30/2003 7:43:53 PM PDT by philetus
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2 posted on 08/30/2003 7:46:58 PM PDT by South40 (Get Right Or Get Left)
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"There no such group as the Nation of Aztlan and most MECHAS have severed ties with any group with sexist, anti-Semitic or homophobic agendas."

Ah, logic.

How is it possible, exactly, to sever ties with a group that doesn't exist? Oh, I get it! He's talking about *other* Mexican groups without mentioning any names!

It's heartening to see, however, that "most MECHAS" have severed ties to "any group with sexist, anti-Semitic or homophobic agendas," isn't it? Interestingly, the author himself admits that at least part of MECHA is not only racist, but sexist and homophobic!

This will, no doubt, cause the egalitarian fanatics on the left to yawn. They love the dirtbag proles too much to expect anything from them.

3 posted on 08/30/2003 7:54:06 PM PDT by Reactionary
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In my youth, I naively believed that the only hope for democracy was higher education and the so-called Fifth Estate.

In my youth we called it the Fourth Estate. Did one get inserted when I wasn't looking?

6 posted on 08/30/2003 8:13:58 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (Peace through Strength)
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Cut me a break...snippits from Aztlan.net:

COINTELPRO: U.S. Domestic Covert Operations against La Raza

VIVA PALESTINA LIBRE! Delegacion Especial en Mexico.

Sign Petition to Stop US Military Aid to Israel

Sign Petition for International Investigation Committee on Ariel Sharon’s Crimes against Humanity

Fidel Castro Says US Should Return Aztlan Back to Mexico

"MEChA emphasizes the fact that our current disadvantaged, economic and political, situation is primarily due to us losing the Mexican-American War that ended in 1848 with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo and the subsequent confiscation of our vast land by the English speaking invaders. This knowledge awakens our student's minds to the true reality of our situation which than provides the necessary impetus to struggle harder and become better people. Our students than realize the great value of what was taken from us . . . not only our land but our language and our culture as well.

"No, we do not think that Bustamante will repudiate MEChA. Without MEChA, Cruz Bustamante would not be where he is.

Here's another one:

"The Simon Wiesenthal Center through its "Museum of Tolerance" and its many propaganda programs such as "Tools for Tolerance" has been able to increase its operating budget every year since it was founded. The 'Museum of Tolerance' is housed in a 'glitzy' multi-million dollar building and exhibits gruesome photographs , some of them supposedly fake, of Jewish cadavers, lamp shades made supposedly of the skin of dead Jews, and soap bars made of the fat of Jews killed by the Nazis in gas chambers. 'Tools for Tolerance' is an indoctrination program for public school teachers and police officers paid by yearly multi-million dollar 'line-item budget' grants from the State of California (from taxpayers)."

<Snip>

"Why than the silence from the Wiesenthal Center concerning the Schwarzenegger family's Nazi past? The reason, we believe, is money! Arnold Schwarzenegger has contributed about $750,000 to the Wiesenthal Center and has helped raise millions more by chairing fund-raisers and other events. It now appears that this 'shoa' thing by the Rabbi Marvin Hier is in the same league as the 'Kosher Nostra' scam perpetuated on American consumers by other rabbis. ( Please read 'The Kosher Nostra Scam on the American Consumer' "

Yeah, they're just a harmless, much-maligned student group, much like the Young Republicans. They don't sound a bit like they aspire to be MexiPali terrorists. MexiCaliNaziBoy is REALLY just n honest politician trying to do what's best for California. And Casto is a great guy. And Arnold is a Nazi, NOT harmless MeChA. And Hamas is a group of freedom fighters.

7 posted on 08/30/2003 8:14:29 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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OH WOW...

La Raza as Palestinians

There are great similarities between the political and economic condition of the Palestinians in occupied Palestine and that of La Raza in the southwest United States. Fortunately, the struggle for equality by La Raza has not reached the level of violence that is now being experienced in the Holy Land and hopefully it never will. Some ominous signs, however, are manifesting themselves in Los Angeles County that may be a harbinger of things to come. Widespread areas in southern California have recently experienced ambushes, shootings and assassinations of police officers by young disaffected Raza youths who are routinely harassed by special police units like the now disbanded CRASH units of the Los Angeles Police Department.

The similarities are many. The primary one of course is the fact that both La Raza and the Palestinians have been displaced by invaders that have utilized military means to conquer and occupy our territories. The takeover of our respective lands by foreign elements occurred 100 years apart. For La Raza it happened in 1848 when Mexico lost the southwest at the end of the Mexican American War and the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidlago. For the Palestinians it occurred in 1948 when the Zionist Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum and signed the "Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel" on the day in which the British Mandate over a Palestine expired. The effects of the occupation policies over time , 153 years for La Raza de Aztlan and 53 years for the Palestinians, have been eerily similar.

This is a very long article, lotsa pics and I see the Ayatollah Khomeni's pic among them...

Full article (hope you have an empty stomach)

9 posted on 08/30/2003 8:21:31 PM PDT by cake_crumb (UN Resolutions = Very Expensive, Very SCRATCHY Toilet Paper)
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'Fair and Unbalanced Racism Against MEChA

Obviously English is not the author's first language.
10 posted on 08/30/2003 8:23:01 PM PDT by Bogey78O (The Clinton's have pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured/killed -Peach)
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It looks like Rodolfo has quickly learned from the DemoRats that when caught, lie more, faster.
11 posted on 08/30/2003 8:23:55 PM PDT by Navy Patriot
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the accusations .. lack any probative value

Translation: yup, you got the goods on us, but you can't prove it. Reminiscent of the Clintons' "there is no evidence that_________" (fill in the blanks)

14 posted on 08/30/2003 8:35:32 PM PDT by Salvey
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Is Cruz Bustamente an illegal alien? Can he prove American citizenship?
15 posted on 08/30/2003 8:38:08 PM PDT by StopGlobalWhining (Why can't Cruz find his American birth certificate?)
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bump
16 posted on 08/30/2003 8:40:45 PM PDT by RippleFire
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If it walks like a duck........
18 posted on 08/30/2003 8:59:21 PM PDT by moehoward
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Rodolfo F. Acuna need not bother to disavow association with racist groups. MeChA is a racist group in its own right. And I go by the standards that ultra leftists like this "gentleman" use to brand "English Only" groups as racist. Simply the lack of recognition of the value of "diversity" is enough of a reason given by leftists to brand "nativitist" groups as racist. I see no coresponding appreciation of "diversity" in any of the many slogans, fragments of manifestos, charter statements etc. that have been attributed to MeChA... or MEcHa or mEchA, or... argh. This gentleman seems to realize this reality, and so... he simply lies, and assumes we all will take his word at face value, not do our homework, and move on. Sorry Rodolfo,this is the Free Republic after all. Many here tend to do a little research now and then, and from what I have seen of the story behind MeCha, it all spells "RACISM".
20 posted on 08/30/2003 9:06:59 PM PDT by Richard Axtell
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…as journalist today have abandoned objectivity and the search for the truth, instead searching for ratings by playing on the fears of Americans.
This is the only bit of truth in this entire article.
23 posted on 08/30/2003 9:54:55 PM PDT by vpintheak (Our Liberties we prize, and our rights we will maintain!)
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Further the gaggle charges that MECHA has 300 chapters in universities across the U.S. making the false assumption that they have a national organization with a national office. MECHA is a student organization with no formal central body, it has no national office, it has no budget, and it has no constitution.

Sounds like Al Queda. MEChA "Cells"?

27 posted on 08/30/2003 10:08:03 PM PDT by montag813
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http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/973391/posts
Bustamante Busted? MEChA ties, and more.
various FR links & posts | 08-30-03 | The Heavy Equipment Guy
29 posted on 08/31/2003 12:11:53 AM PDT by backhoe
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