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Chicano Indian American Center presents alternate Colombus Day By VALERIE SULLIVAN Staff Writer The Chicano Indian American Cultural Center (CIACC) will hold a public "Dia De La Raza" (Day of the People) Rally from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today on Pentacrest. Presented as an "alternate Columbus Day celebration," the rally, according to CIACC chairperson Steve Rocha, L3, will include addresses by members of the campus Wounded Knee Committee, the CIACC student union and the Iowa United Farm Workers (UFW) Support Committee of Iowa. A West Liberty Junior High School dance group will perform Mexican folk dances at the rally and "Teatro Zapatista," a CIACC street theater group, will present one or two "actos" or skits. The rally will culminate in a public request to march to Maxwell's, 121 E. College St., to protest the bar's continued usage of non-union wine. Rocha explained Dia De La Raza's significance, an annual event in some Latin American counties, to the Chicano-Indian organization on campus. You can look back and celebrate Columbus Day as the springing of a new culture," Rocha said. "But that discovery also led to the disruption of other civilizations The Aztec culture, the Inca, the North American Indian." "Dia De La Raza commemorates the beginning of the western hemisphere as we know it," he said. Eugene Rave, A2, member of the Wounded Knee Committee, will speak about the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, in particular the pending trials in some states. CIACC representative Fransisco Costillo, L2, will speak on the history of Dia De La Raza and its significance to the UI community, and a member of the UFW support committee will speak about migrant program in Californiaa an the Midwest. CIACC has invited communities throughout Iowa to attend the rally. In addition, Rocha said, members of migrant programs from the state will be in the audience. Rocha also extended an invitation to all members of the UI community.
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Chicano Indian American Center presents alternate Colombus Day By VALERIE SULLIVAN Staff Writer The Chicano Indian American Cultural Center (CIACC) will hold a public "Dia De La Raza" (Day of the People) Rally from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. today on Pentacrest. Presented as an "alternate Columbus Day celebration," the rally, according to CIACC chairperson Steve Rocha, L3, will include addresses by members of the campus Wounded Knee Committee, the CIACC student union and the Iowa United Farm Workers (UFW) Support Committee of Iowa. A West Liberty Junior High School dance group will perform Mexican folk dances at the rally and "Teatro Zapatista," a CIACC street theater group, will present one or two "actos" or skits. The rally will culminate in a public request to march to Maxwell's, 121 E. College St., to protest the bar's continued usage of non-union wine. Rocha explained Dia De La Raza's significance, an annual event in some Latin American counties, to the Chicano-Indian organization on campus. You can look back and celebrate Columbus Day as the springing of a new culture," Rocha said. "But that discovery also led to the disruption of other civilizations The Aztec culture, the Inca, the North American Indian." "Dia De La Raza commemorates the beginning of the western hemisphere as we know it," he said. Eugene Rave, A2, member of the Wounded Knee Committee, will speak about the 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee, in particular the pending trials in some states. CIACC representative Fransisco Costillo, L2, will speak on the history of Dia De La Raza and its significance to the UI community, and a member of the UFW support committee will speak about migrant program in Californiaa an the Midwest. CIACC has invited communities throughout Iowa to attend the rally. In addition, Rocha said, members of migrant programs from the state will be in the audience. Rocha also extended an invitation to all members of the UI community.
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