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El Laberinto, 1971-1987
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NATIONAL LRLSA CONFERENCE The La Raza Law Students Association held its 1976 National Conference at Peoples College of Law in Los Angeles, California, during the days of March 5, 6, and 6th. Members of CHALE representing the regional midwest office from the University of Iowa Law School attended the three day conference. The theme of the conference this year was Imperialism. As stated by a representative of the National Lawyers Guild opening the conference, the members of all peoples around the world are living in an age where the location and understanding of imperialism and its manifestations is of the utmost and crucial exigency. And that it now becomes more important than ever for all persons, particularly lawyers and people in the legal profession, to organize and work together and educate one another as to take the role progressive peoples must take in order to expose the worldwide system of imperialism wherever it is found. Keynote speakers of the conference were Antonio Rodriguez, Secretario General and National Organizer for C.A.S.A. (Centro de Accion Social Autonomo) Hermandad General De Trabajadores, discussing "The role of La Raza worker in the Anti-Imperialist Struggle", and Bert Corona, Organizer for International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union, speaking on "imperialism in our communites and Latin American". Antonio Rodriguez's remarks focussed upon the importance of understanding how "our very condition, our very existence as an oppressed nationality demands that we discuss anti-imperialism." He went on in a general discussion to describe some of the conditions where the treatment of La Raza and all workers, has been of struggle for participation in this society, of struggle for democratic reform. He attested to these numerous struggles, that in each case, there has been fragmentation and irresolution as to the form necessary to carry out the direction for the organization. He put forth, in terms of choice, the correlation between clear, conscious determining of the political direction we must take, and the incapacity and crisis of failing to solve the demands of the masses in the U.S. for better and greater liberties in the society. And that it is imperialism and socialism in the world scheme that sets the background for this choice. Consciousness of this scheme along with organizing and developing correctly to proceed from this awareness, will no doubt result in the progressive struggle for liberty of all oppressed peoples. And that in undertaking this, in discipling ourselves for this, the common enemy - Imperialism - of the La Raza worker will emerge clearly and poignantly. * Bert Corona depicted a concise history of the intervention of imperialism in our communities and in Latin America. Beginning with the fate of immigrant workers from the Dominican Republic, he brought attention to the injustice and inhumanity the great Multi-National corporations have leveled against the peoples of the working class. "Leganchismo" - the practice of recruiting workers to this country for big business -0 has produced one-half million immigrant workers without documents in the greater New York area alone. The little land they give up in order to come to this country is taken over by the multi-nationals that control and dominate the existence of the Dominican Republic. Significantly, the very same corporations that push together the little plots of land into big business operations in the Dominican Republic - i.e., Gulf and Western, and others - are also funding, in the New York area, through grants and by other means, the centers that are supposed to assist the immigrant workers without documents from the Dominican Republic. This brutal mockery of "assistance" is all part of the cyclical maneuverings the multi-nationals undertake to ensure domination over the workers, and is also a part of the paternalistic protrusion they perpetuate. The workers cheap labor is put into small-time business operations (prepared food chains, laundry chains, restaurants, and so forth) owned by the multi-nationals. "So it is a very concrete reality for immigrants, and for Mexicanos who come here from Mexico, that this is what they must face." 10
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NATIONAL LRLSA CONFERENCE The La Raza Law Students Association held its 1976 National Conference at Peoples College of Law in Los Angeles, California, during the days of March 5, 6, and 6th. Members of CHALE representing the regional midwest office from the University of Iowa Law School attended the three day conference. The theme of the conference this year was Imperialism. As stated by a representative of the National Lawyers Guild opening the conference, the members of all peoples around the world are living in an age where the location and understanding of imperialism and its manifestations is of the utmost and crucial exigency. And that it now becomes more important than ever for all persons, particularly lawyers and people in the legal profession, to organize and work together and educate one another as to take the role progressive peoples must take in order to expose the worldwide system of imperialism wherever it is found. Keynote speakers of the conference were Antonio Rodriguez, Secretario General and National Organizer for C.A.S.A. (Centro de Accion Social Autonomo) Hermandad General De Trabajadores, discussing "The role of La Raza worker in the Anti-Imperialist Struggle", and Bert Corona, Organizer for International Longshore and Warehousemen's Union, speaking on "imperialism in our communites and Latin American". Antonio Rodriguez's remarks focussed upon the importance of understanding how "our very condition, our very existence as an oppressed nationality demands that we discuss anti-imperialism." He went on in a general discussion to describe some of the conditions where the treatment of La Raza and all workers, has been of struggle for participation in this society, of struggle for democratic reform. He attested to these numerous struggles, that in each case, there has been fragmentation and irresolution as to the form necessary to carry out the direction for the organization. He put forth, in terms of choice, the correlation between clear, conscious determining of the political direction we must take, and the incapacity and crisis of failing to solve the demands of the masses in the U.S. for better and greater liberties in the society. And that it is imperialism and socialism in the world scheme that sets the background for this choice. Consciousness of this scheme along with organizing and developing correctly to proceed from this awareness, will no doubt result in the progressive struggle for liberty of all oppressed peoples. And that in undertaking this, in discipling ourselves for this, the common enemy - Imperialism - of the La Raza worker will emerge clearly and poignantly. * Bert Corona depicted a concise history of the intervention of imperialism in our communities and in Latin America. Beginning with the fate of immigrant workers from the Dominican Republic, he brought attention to the injustice and inhumanity the great Multi-National corporations have leveled against the peoples of the working class. "Leganchismo" - the practice of recruiting workers to this country for big business -0 has produced one-half million immigrant workers without documents in the greater New York area alone. The little land they give up in order to come to this country is taken over by the multi-nationals that control and dominate the existence of the Dominican Republic. Significantly, the very same corporations that push together the little plots of land into big business operations in the Dominican Republic - i.e., Gulf and Western, and others - are also funding, in the New York area, through grants and by other means, the centers that are supposed to assist the immigrant workers without documents from the Dominican Republic. This brutal mockery of "assistance" is all part of the cyclical maneuverings the multi-nationals undertake to ensure domination over the workers, and is also a part of the paternalistic protrusion they perpetuate. The workers cheap labor is put into small-time business operations (prepared food chains, laundry chains, restaurants, and so forth) owned by the multi-nationals. "So it is a very concrete reality for immigrants, and for Mexicanos who come here from Mexico, that this is what they must face." 10
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