Youth, families, children and organizers joined the first National Chicano Moratorium in 1970 to denounce US involvement in Vietnam and to point to the ills the US causes to oppress nations even with-in its own created borders.
The over 30,000 raza demonstration showed the opposition and resistance of an organized struggle of Chicano/as and Mexicano/as who understand the effects of U.S. invasion.
These same US forces took its ancestors lands with the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo more than 150 years ago here in the US (Southwest) in 1848.
In 1970, the descendants of those very same Southwest lands, that Chicanos came from, were demonstrating at Salazar Park in East Lost Angeles.
An outspoken journalist Ruben Salazar was killed on this same day of August 29th, 1970 because he depicted the plight of Chicanos.
Salazar�s killing, by an LA County Sheriff, showed a brutal censorship of the recognition of the Chicano/ Mexicano Community, a clear repression of the identity of Chicanos and the urgency of the US police state to silence the economic, educational and political realities that Chicanos were uniting to fight.
Many of the Chicano Moratorium participants were tear gassed, battoned and beaten that day by Los Angeles Police.
