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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974

1973-04-14 Keynote Speech Page 8

day cannot step on American soil. She lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was a budding young star, she made the mistake of taking this role and was forever banned from the United States. The producer, Judio (Jewish) spent 10 years in jail for making that movie. And the movie "Salt of the Earth" is simply about a strike in Silver City, New Mexico, where Chicanos won. That was the crime.

So, then came 1960 and Chicanos have always been the source of votes for the Democratic Party. The strategy of the major Presidential campaigns have always been to go into the community, pick the leadership, carve out some sort of constituency and deliver those votes for the Democrats. The 1960 Presidential campaign was no different; John F. Kennedy sought out Chicanos. But it was different in a very little twist. Chicanos also sought out John Kennedy. So, as there was a movement form the top down and a movement from the bottom up. After the campaign blew over there remained two very visible organizations and important ones in the early sixties, the Mexican-American Political Association in California and the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations. Two new words, in California they are saying they are Mexican-Americans in Tejas we are Spanish Speaking. These organizations were the first organizations to claim overt political activity. The LULAC, G.I. Forum, have in their platforms today a non-partisan attitude. These organizations were the first political organizations but political for the Democratic Party. They have also contributed some evils we are still trying to get rid of and that is they have established a tradition of having a convention where your main speaker is a white politic, the conventions passes resolutions that are ineffective and make a mockery of the inherent "Chicano Power", they sign petitions that are filed in cabinet thirteen. This fake illusion of having power and of doing the bidding for the Democratic Party became entrenched firmly in the early sixties. Chicanos began reacting such as Reies Tijerina, in 1967. He couldn't get the resolutions about the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo lifted from the page to become a reality. The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo like many treaties are fake as we are watching now with Wounded Knee. The treaties that this country has signed with any nation internal or external are laws of this land. Look at the American Constitution, Article six, it talks about the law of the land saying, decisions of the Supreme Court, the laws passed by congress and treaties signed by this nation are the governing laws of this country. Yet that article has never been respected.

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day cannot step on American soil. She lives in Cuernavaca, Mexico. She was a budding young star, she made the mistake of taking this role and was forever banned from the United States. The producer, Judio (Jewish) spent 10 years in jail for making that movie. And the movie "Salt of the Earth" is simply about a strike in Silver City, New Mexico, where Chicanos won. That was the crime. So, then came 1960 and Chicanos have always been the source of votes for the Democratic Party. The strategy of the major Presidential campaigns have always been to go into the community, pick the leadership, carve out some sort of constituency and deliver those votes for the Democrats. The 1960 Presidential campaign was no different; John F. Kennedy sought out Chicanos. But it was different in a very little twist. Chicanos also sought out John Kennedy. So, as there was a movement form the top down and a movement from the bottom up. After the campaign blew over there remained two very visible organizations and important ones in the early sixties, the Mexican-American Political Association in California and the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations. Two new words, in California they are saying they are Mexican-Americans in Tejas we are Spanish Speaking. These organizations were the first organizations to claim overt political activity. The LULAC, G.I. Forum, have in their platforms today a non-partisan attitude. These organizations were the first political organizations but political for the Democratic Party. They have also contributed some evils we are still trying to get rid of and that is they have established a tradition of having a convention where your main speaker is a white politic, the conventions passes resolutions that are ineffective and make a mockery of the inherent "Chicano Power", they sign petitions that are filed in cabinet thirteen. This fake illusion of having power and of doing the bidding for the Democratic Party became entrenched firmly in the early sixties. Chicanos began reacting such as Reies Tijerina, in 1967. He couldn't get the resolutions about the Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo lifted from the page to become a reality. The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo like many treaties are fake as we are watching now with Wounded Knee. The treaties that this country has signed with any nation internal or external are laws of this land. Look at the American Constitution, Article six, it talks about the law of the land saying, decisions of the Supreme Court, the laws passed by congress and treaties signed by this nation are the governing laws of this country. Yet that article has never been respected.