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Chicano conference programs and speeches, April 1973-May 1974

1973-04-14 Keynote Speech Page 9

Tijerina finally got upset with the hypocrisy of their words, picked up the gun and went and arrested elected officials in Tierra Amarilla, at the court house. For a week or so the National Guard, certain divisions of the Army looked for Tijerina in the mountains of New Mexico and they could not find him.

Chicanos not only have distinguished themselves in Viet Nam, Korea, World War II and World War I. We have distinguished ourselves in our own right. It was Robert E. Lee who failed to capture Juan Cortina. It was Perishing who failed to capture Doroteo Arango, better known as Pancho Villa. It was the National Guard and Army of New Mexico who failed to capture Tijerina. From Tijerina sprang the Brown Berets and many other groups who sought to emulate what Jijerina stood for as a symbol of resistance, a symbol of a man putting his body physically on the line for what he believed. Other people at the same time began developing and blowing out in many directions. The youth who have always been excluded by the traditional organizations in 1968 walked out of the schools in L.A., Lincoln High, started it all. Three days later Elsa Edcouch studs walked out in Tejas. From that day in Tejas alone there have been 39 school walk outs protesting the lack of irrelevancy of education.

Then came the women who have always been a very vital part, who finally gave up on the reactionary politics of their Chicano counterparts, the male. They moved out on their own. Women have always been successful in wining. It was in the early thirties when the Chicano housewives in East L.A. got angry with the company called Carnation. They would bring day old milk at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning and drivers were very nasty, insolent white bigots. The women organized themselves and boycotted Carnation. The barrio of East L.A., succeeded not only in getting fresh milk early in the morning but in changing the drivers to being Chicano drivers. They found jobs for their husbands.

Just like in Silver City, New Mexico when the Federal Judge ordered the picketing by the union members illegal, women took up the picket signs, braved the tear gas, clubs and defeated the Rangers. They are the ones who won the strike. 

Same thing with Maria Hernandez. She was a member of the Orden Hijos De America in 1927. She was the only voice along with her husband Pedro Hernandez

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Tijerina finally got upset with the hypocrisy of their words, picked up the gun and went and arrested elected officials in Tierra Amarilla, at the court house. For a week or so the National Guard, certain divisions of the Army looked for Tijerina in the mountains of New Mexico and they could not find him. Chicanos not only have distinguished themselves in Viet Nam, Korea, World War II and World War I. We have distinguished ourselves in our own right. It was Robert E. Lee who failed to capture Juan Cortina. It was Perishing who failed to capture Doroteo Arango, better known as Pancho Villa. It was the National Guard and Army of New Mexico who failed to capture Tijerina. From Tijerina sprang the Brown Berets and many other groups who sought to emulate what Jijerina stood for as a symbol of resistance, a symbol of a man putting his body physically on the line for what he believed. Other people at the same time began developing and blowing out in many directions. The youth who have always been excluded by the traditional organizations in 1968 walked out of the schools in L.A., Lincoln High, started it all. Three days later Elsa Edcouch studs walked out in Tejas. From that day in Tejas alone there have been 39 school walk outs protesting the lack of irrelevancy of education. Then came the women who have always been a very vital part, who finally gave up on the reactionary politics of their Chicano counterparts, the male. They moved out on their own. Women have always been successful in wining. It was in the early thirties when the Chicano housewives in East L.A. got angry with the company called Carnation. They would bring day old milk at 10:00 or 11:00 in the morning and drivers were very nasty, insolent white bigots. The women organized themselves and boycotted Carnation. The barrio of East L.A., succeeded not only in getting fresh milk early in the morning but in changing the drivers to being Chicano drivers. They found jobs for their husbands. Just like in Silver City, New Mexico when the Federal Judge ordered the picketing by the union members illegal, women took up the picket signs, braved the tear gas, clubs and defeated the Rangers. They are the ones who won the strike. Same thing with Maria Hernandez. She was a member of the Orden Hijos De America in 1927. She was the only voice along with her husband Pedro Hernandez