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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974

1973-04-14 Keynote Speech Page 10

who refused and voted against changing their name to LULAC. To this day theirs is the only chapter in this nation that exists with the name, Orden Hijos De America. Marie Hernandez in the 1930's, along with Eluterio Escoban was getting 30,000 people in the streets of San Antonia protesting the same issues that the we would protest in the sixties, the lack of education.

The youth and the women then join hands with the other force. They have always been put down an relegated to inferior status even by ourselves, the compesinas (the farm workers). Chavez comes up and he shows the effectiveness of consumer boycott. The effectiveness of piket lines and of strikes. And he wins what his brothers started sixty, seventy years before. So, the farm workers the youth and the women now have become the leaders of what is called the "Chican Movement". From this chane then we have had many, many contributions. There has been numerous organizations on campus, MECHA, UMAS, MAYO, MASO, you name it. Like flowers in the spring, we have had numerous organizations spring up throughout the whole of the country and a concept so that our enemies and some of us mistakenly limit geographically to the Southwest, Atzlan is not in the Southwest. Atzlan is where a Chicano is. The land in the Southwest that belongs to the people in the Southwest is only a part of the land. Since we were conquered in 1848 we have begun, El Reconquista, of this nation. The settlements in Iowa, Michigan, Pensyvania, in Canada, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, throughout this country, there is not one state that does not have a Chicano settlement, is Atzlan. Our constituency and our grounds are everywhere that we walk. Because we have earned this right. We have earned this land through our struggles and our skills and our talents we have poured into this land.

As we already mentioned, railroads, agriculture, timber, sugar beets, copper, iron, silver mines, we have earned it by also paying our dues in other ways. For our loyalty to American institutions. When we win oe when we take over numerically school districts we remain loyal to the socializing process of American institutions. We continue to speak English, we continue to read about Plymouth Rock and George Washington. But the opposite is true from the white person. That when he loses his school he forms another school. This has been the white answer to integration in the South and it is now the white answer to Chicano liberation of schools in the Southwest. In Cristal, where I come from, when we were successful in winning elective office to the school board and changing the policies to reflect the more equitable. To the majority of the students 91 percent to be exact, there

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who refused and voted against changing their name to LULAC. To this day theirs is the only chapter in this nation that exists with the name, Orden Hijos De America. Marie Hernandez in the 1930's, along with Eluterio Escoban was getting 30,000 people in the streets of San Antonia protesting the same issues that the we would protest in the sixties, the lack of education. The youth and the women then join hands with the other force. They have always been put down an relegated to inferior status even by ourselves, the compesinas (the farm workers). Chavez comes up and he shows the effectiveness of consumer boycott. The effectiveness of piket lines and of strikes. And he wins what his brothers started sixty, seventy years before. So, the farm workers the youth and the women now have become the leaders of what is called the "Chican Movement". From this chane then we have had many, many contributions. There has been numerous organizations on campus, MECHA, UMAS, MAYO, MASO, you name it. Like flowers in the spring, we have had numerous organizations spring up throughout the whole of the country and a concept so that our enemies and some of us mistakenly limit geographically to the Southwest, Atzlan is not in the Southwest. Atzlan is where a Chicano is. The land in the Southwest that belongs to the people in the Southwest is only a part of the land. Since we were conquered in 1848 we have begun, El Reconquista, of this nation. The settlements in Iowa, Michigan, Pensyvania, in Canada, Minnesota, Oregon, Washington, throughout this country, there is not one state that does not have a Chicano settlement, is Atzlan. Our constituency and our grounds are everywhere that we walk. Because we have earned this right. We have earned this land through our struggles and our skills and our talents we have poured into this land. As we already mentioned, railroads, agriculture, timber, sugar beets, copper, iron, silver mines, we have earned it by also paying our dues in other ways. For our loyalty to American institutions. When we win oe when we take over numerically school districts we remain loyal to the socializing process of American institutions. We continue to speak English, we continue to read about Plymouth Rock and George Washington. But the opposite is true from the white person. That when he loses his school he forms another school. This has been the white answer to integration in the South and it is now the white answer to Chicano liberation of schools in the Southwest. In Cristal, where I come from, when we were successful in winning elective office to the school board and changing the policies to reflect the more equitable. To the majority of the students 91 percent to be exact, there