On May 1st 2002 over 15,000 demonstrators including the Centro CSO�s East LA Anti-War Action Committee, with a contingency opposing US aggression and the war on Palestine, showed mass protest of immigrant scape-goating and repression of Latinos, Blacks, South-east Asian and Native American.
The efforts of many Chicano organizers is to call out US Capitalist and Imperialist to make them accountable for the repression of oppressed nations; and to demand to revitalize these communities by reestablishing the Chicano /Mexicano Nation, its people and its economic and political self-determination.
The demands include basic rights that continue to be denied by Bush and the US who is once again demonizing and making excuses to fight �terrorism� in Afghanistan, Irak and abroad, to build the US war machine like it did in Vietnam calling it the �Vietcong.�
The Chicano/a community and many oppressed nations today are organized and continuing the struggle and resistance for the very same demands the Moratorium raised in 1970.
The organized people call for:
� Self Determination of the Mexican@-Chican@ People
� Union jobs and decent wages
� Housing and health-care
� An end to police/INS abuses and terror
� Relevant and Bilingual Education
� No Police State in the neighborhoods; and
� US forces out of Latino America, the Middle East, the Philippines and Colombia!
Black, Pilipino, Asian, and Native American resistance like the high-school students in the high-school walk-outs, the Brown Berets, the Crusade for Justice, Mechistas, Young Revolutionart Students, poets, mothers, fathers, sisters and brothers, the Centro CSO and the Boyle Heights communities, continue grassroots organizing through community teach-ins and developing Chicano/Mexicano leadership in the community.
Today from August 29th 1970 to August 29th 2003 Centro CSO calls the community of resistance to organize and struggle for Self-Determination in the Southwest.
Join the Struggle!
Centro CSO 511 Echandia St.
Boyle Heights, CA 90033
(323) 221-4000
