The Philosophy of Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano De Aztlan
Historical Foundation
The Chicano Movement of the late 1960's helped spark cultural and historical pride in our people. Chicanas/Chicanos demanded to be treated as equals and denounce acculturation and assimilation. Brown pride began to express itself through poetry, literature, art, and theater. The contributions of the Chicano Movement are numerous and continue to be very valuable to our society.
Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan (M.E.Ch.A.) Is a student organization that promotes higher education, cultura, and historia. M.E.Ch.A. was founded on the principles of self-determination for the liberation of our people. We believe that the political involvement and education is the avenue for change in our society.
In March of 1969, at Denver, Colorado the Crusade for Justice organized the National Chicano Youth Conference that drafted the basic premises for the Chicana/Chicano Movement in El Plan de Aztlan (EPA). A synopsis of El Plan stipulates: 1) We are Chicanas and Chicanos of Aztlan reclaiming the land of our birth (Chicana/Chicano Nation); 2) Aztlan belongs to indigenous people, who are sovereign and not subject to a foreign culture: 3) We are a union of free pueblos forming a bronze Chicana/Chicano) Nation; 4) Chicano nationalism, as the key to mobilization and organization, is the common denominator to bring consensus to the Chicana/Chicano Movement; 5) Cultural values strengthen our identity as La Familia de la Raza; and 6) EPA, as a basic plan of Chicana/Chicano liberation, sought the formation of an independent national political party that would represent the sentiments of the Chicana/Chicano community.
Good grief, when I was in college (not that long ago), they needed to truck people in from two counties away to have a decent-sized "rent-a-mob" for their pathetic little demonstrations. And most "Latino" students just LAUGHED at them. About the only folks who went to those meetings were the Latino equivalent of the white trash college student who thinks Calculus is a Zionist plot to oppress him.
Good grief, when I was in college (not that long ago), they needed to truck people in from two counties away to have a decent-sized "rent-a-mob" for their pathetic little demonstrations. And most "Latino" students just LAUGHED at them. About the only folks who went to those meetings were the Latino equivalent of the white trash college student who thinks Calculus is a Zionist plot to oppress him.