CHICANO MOVEMENT TO COMMEMORATE 50 YEARS OF STRUGGLES

The next several years will see a number of 50-year commemorations of the events that helped to launch the historic Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s. For some, the movement was a series of legal actions, strikes or huelgas, civil rights protests, and mass rallies and marches, all challenging the permanent dehumanization of Mexican peoples in the United States. 

For others, the movement was a levantamiento, an insurrection or a liberation movement. Whatever it was, it was generally outside of the national conversations on race, though for the right wing, it was simply "un-American." For the rest of the column go to: http://www.truth-out.org/speakout/item/42438-chicano-movement-anniversaries-marking-50-years-of-struggles