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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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[photo] the defendants "Today this system went on trial again. Stan Holder, Leonard Crowdog and I put the oppressor on the defensive once more. Using the power and strength give us by the love and solidarity of all the oppressed and Third World peoples of our Mother Earth, we've turned their threat of time in a cage into a sentence of extinction for the murderer of my people. "Many of us have worked toward this day for a long time. When I was fourteen, my family and I worked in the fields as farm laborers. Attracted by the promise of a better way of life, I joined the United Farm Workers Organization. It gave me a hunger for freedom. "As I grew older I was dissatisfied inside but I started to become pretty successful in white-eyes. Later I became president of a local (IBEW) in California. I think it was here that I began the journey back. Our union was instructed to help Cesar Chavez and I began to organize food caravans to his small, dilapidated headquarters in Delano. Looking at those beautiful Chicano faces I was suddenly and forcefully reminded of the life of my People, my tribe. "I quit my job and went home to my people. Home to hard times and freedom. I traveled and lived with the People. I heard of AIM, loved its message, and joined. I was elected to lead Kansas AIM and from there organized Oklahoma AIM. From there to the jarring confrontations at the BIA, Scottsbluff, Custer, and Wounded Knee, where I finally found freedom. Total, complete, beautiful freedom. "I found I was a warrior! I joined in solidarity with the fighters in Asia, Africa, South America, and the seekers of freedom all over our Mother Earth. Still learning but recognizing the enemy I deeply believe that we will win. I can feel the freedom of my Grandfathers coming back and I know my Grandchildren will live without the yoke we are fighting to throw off. "On the United Farm Worker's last march, I walked with their people (our people) again. Without fanfare or speech-making, without saying, 'I'm an AIM leader.' I walked the long miles with the campesinos. "i was proud." -CARTER CAMP [emblem] 3
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[photo] the defendants "Today this system went on trial again. Stan Holder, Leonard Crowdog and I put the oppressor on the defensive once more. Using the power and strength give us by the love and solidarity of all the oppressed and Third World peoples of our Mother Earth, we've turned their threat of time in a cage into a sentence of extinction for the murderer of my people. "Many of us have worked toward this day for a long time. When I was fourteen, my family and I worked in the fields as farm laborers. Attracted by the promise of a better way of life, I joined the United Farm Workers Organization. It gave me a hunger for freedom. "As I grew older I was dissatisfied inside but I started to become pretty successful in white-eyes. Later I became president of a local (IBEW) in California. I think it was here that I began the journey back. Our union was instructed to help Cesar Chavez and I began to organize food caravans to his small, dilapidated headquarters in Delano. Looking at those beautiful Chicano faces I was suddenly and forcefully reminded of the life of my People, my tribe. "I quit my job and went home to my people. Home to hard times and freedom. I traveled and lived with the People. I heard of AIM, loved its message, and joined. I was elected to lead Kansas AIM and from there organized Oklahoma AIM. From there to the jarring confrontations at the BIA, Scottsbluff, Custer, and Wounded Knee, where I finally found freedom. Total, complete, beautiful freedom. "I found I was a warrior! I joined in solidarity with the fighters in Asia, Africa, South America, and the seekers of freedom all over our Mother Earth. Still learning but recognizing the enemy I deeply believe that we will win. I can feel the freedom of my Grandfathers coming back and I know my Grandchildren will live without the yoke we are fighting to throw off. "On the United Farm Worker's last march, I walked with their people (our people) again. Without fanfare or speech-making, without saying, 'I'm an AIM leader.' I walked the long miles with the campesinos. "i was proud." -CARTER CAMP [emblem] 3
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