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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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[emblem] RAZA Este Editorial de La Voz Del Pueblo, expresa de la mejor manera lo que uno pueda decir en este tiempo---- que pasa? EDITORIAL With each passing day, more and more Chicano Movement leaders (especially student leaders) are finding themselves in an embarrassing predicament. Employed in increasing numbers by Anglo-controlled public agencies and private industry, they have had to abandon their soap boxes discard the ideals they preached, and become a part of the institutions they claim have oppressed them. And the "system," as always, has been ready and willing to accommodate them. But what choice have they ? There are few Chicano organizations that offer the opportunity for someone to exercise the Movement's ideals of equality in wealth distribution, denial of individual materialism, and self-determination. These organizations have also been forced into accommodation with each other, often conflicting groups. So we have the irony of Chicanos working for the federal government and the public social service agencies while the Farm Workers Union is staffed by Anglos, and Chicano journalists working for the established press while independent Chicano papers rarely put out more than half a dozen issues before they disappear. Students can afford to be idealistic and even radical. The real test comes when they finally have to decide for whom they will work. the members of the FRENTE ORGANIZATION made their decisoin when they chose not to compromise their beliefs for immediate comforts, but rather to build an organization that the established institutions would have to recognize and deal with. This is the message that FRENTE offered when it first organized and it is still our message. So there is a choice for Chicanos if some of us resolve to dedicate our lives to alternative institutions. It is possible to have our own business enterprises, our own social services and our own political associations without a loss of integrity. Those of us who decide to meet the challenge may not see our goals realize, but to perservere, nevertheless, is the essense of any liberation struggle. -MANUEL DELGADO La Voz Del Pueblo Nov. Dec. 1972 [photo]
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[emblem] RAZA Este Editorial de La Voz Del Pueblo, expresa de la mejor manera lo que uno pueda decir en este tiempo---- que pasa? EDITORIAL With each passing day, more and more Chicano Movement leaders (especially student leaders) are finding themselves in an embarrassing predicament. Employed in increasing numbers by Anglo-controlled public agencies and private industry, they have had to abandon their soap boxes discard the ideals they preached, and become a part of the institutions they claim have oppressed them. And the "system," as always, has been ready and willing to accommodate them. But what choice have they ? There are few Chicano organizations that offer the opportunity for someone to exercise the Movement's ideals of equality in wealth distribution, denial of individual materialism, and self-determination. These organizations have also been forced into accommodation with each other, often conflicting groups. So we have the irony of Chicanos working for the federal government and the public social service agencies while the Farm Workers Union is staffed by Anglos, and Chicano journalists working for the established press while independent Chicano papers rarely put out more than half a dozen issues before they disappear. Students can afford to be idealistic and even radical. The real test comes when they finally have to decide for whom they will work. the members of the FRENTE ORGANIZATION made their decisoin when they chose not to compromise their beliefs for immediate comforts, but rather to build an organization that the established institutions would have to recognize and deal with. This is the message that FRENTE offered when it first organized and it is still our message. So there is a choice for Chicanos if some of us resolve to dedicate our lives to alternative institutions. It is possible to have our own business enterprises, our own social services and our own political associations without a loss of integrity. Those of us who decide to meet the challenge may not see our goals realize, but to perservere, nevertheless, is the essense of any liberation struggle. -MANUEL DELGADO La Voz Del Pueblo Nov. Dec. 1972 [photo]
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